Generations Quotes

3253 Generations quotes by 2229 unique authors

The nature of human beings never changes; it is immutable. The present generation of children and the present generation of young adults from the age… — Taylor Caldwell
We, perhaps, have corrupted our children and our grandchildren by heedless affluence, by a lack of manliness, by giving the younger generation more money and… — Taylor Caldwell
There is hardly an American male of my generation who has not at one time or another tried to master the victory cry of the… — Gore Vidal
Amongst democratic nations, each new generation is a new people. — Alexis de Tocqueville
I'm trying to encourage my children's generation and the other ones coming to return to basic American principles. — Stewart Udall
So many people of my generation who served in the government were prisoners of the Cold War culture, still are. — Stewart Udall
The problem is that resuscitating old labels doesn't work anymore. I think it is very important to give hope to a new generation of designers,… — Giambattista Valli
We can’t afford to be so worried about losing the next election that we lose the battles we owe to the next generation. The real… — Barack Obama
Each and every time, a new generation has risen up and done what’s needed to be done. Today we are called once more — and… — Barack Obama
Within the next generation I believe that the world's leaders will discover that infant conditioning and narco-hypnosis are more efficient, as instruments of government, than… — Aldous Huxley
Nationwide thinking, nationwide planning and nationwide action are the three great essentials to prevent nationwide crises for future generations to struggle through. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
The man who thinks only of his own generation is born for few. — Seneca the Younger
As generations come and go, Their arts, their customs, ebb and flow; Fate, fortune, sweep strong powers away, And feeble, of themselves, decay. — William Wordsworth
Every generation finds the drug it needs. — P.J. O'Rourke
Sensibility alters from generation to generation in everybody, whether we will or no; but expression is only altered by a man of genius. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Each generation takes a special pleasure in removing the household gods of its parents from their pedestals, and consigning them to the cupboard. — William Ralph Inge
Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one. — Laurence J. Peter
Enduring fame is promised only to those writers who can offer to successive generations a substance constantly renewed; for every generation arrives upon the scene… — Andre Gide
Remember, that money is of the prolific, generating nature. Money can beget money, and its offspring can beget more, and so on. Five shillings turned… — Benjamin Franklin
Our strife pertains to ourselves-to the passing generations of men-and it can without convulsion be hushed forever with the passing of one generation. — Abraham Lincoln
One picture in ten thousand, perhaps, ought to live in the applause of mankind, from generation to generation until the colors fade and blacken out… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
If you are prepared to accept the consequences of your dreams then you must still regard America today with the same naive enthusiasm as the… — Jean Baudrillard
Our generation, like the one before us, must choose. Without the threat of the Cold War, without the pain of economic ruin, without the fresh… — William J. Clinton
Every age and generation must be as free to act for itself in all cases as the ages and generations which preceded it. The vanity… — Thomas Paine
The greatest significance of the present student generation is that it is through them that the point of view of the subjugated is finally and… — James A. Baldwin

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