Generations Quotes

3253 Generations quotes by 2229 unique authors

My mother is Greek and my father is Bulgarian. I am a first-generation American and native Los Angeleno. I was born and raised in Hollywood. — Rita Wilson
The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records, to… — George F. Kennan
The modern minds in each generation are the critics who preserve us from a petrifying world, who will not leave us to walk undisturbed in… — Edith Hamilton
We need an angry generation, A generation to plow the horizons — Nizar Qabbani
I would say the most significant difference between modern-era receivers and previous receivers is the ones who were in my generation or earlier had to… — Steve Largent
Out of the sighs of one generation are kneaded the hopes of the next. — Machado de Assis
Those who criticize our generation forget who raised it. — Bill Cosby
A fad lives its life in a few weeks; a philosophy lives through generations and centuries; a principle, forever. — William George Jordan
The earth belongs to the living. No man can, by natural right, oblige the lands he occupied or the persons who succeed him in that… — Thomas Jefferson
Education in my family was not merely emphasized, it was our raison d'être. Virtually all of our aunts and uncles had Ph.D.s in science or… — Steven Chu
We're in the age of the idea. The organization that can develop a culture of creativity and idea generation will be the winners. — Kevin Roberts
It is essential to collectively struggle to recover our status as Daughters of the Earth. In that is our strength, and the security, not in… — Winona LaDuke
There is, fortunately, a minority composed of those who recognize early in their lives that the most beautiful and satisfying experiences open to humankind are… — Albert Einstein
Future generations will look back on TV as the lead in the water pipes that slowly drove the Romans mad. — Kurt Vonnegut
Perchance, coming generations will not abide the dissolution of the globe, but, availing themselves of future inventions in aerial locomotion, and the navigation of space,… — Henry David Thoreau
Perhaps the critics are right: this generation may not produce literature equal to that of any past generation-who cares? The writer will be dead before… — William Styron
This generation may be the one that will face Armageddon. — Ronald Reagan
Once I knew the City very well, spent my attic days there, while others were being a lost generation in Paris, I fledged in San… — John Steinbeck
Be wary of feeling as through there is not enough room at the table. Oftentimes a female Chinese-American might feel as through she is in… — ZZ Packer
Like leaves on trees the race of man is found,- Now green in youth, now withering on the ground; Another race the following spring supplies:… — Homer
You may complete as many generations as you please during your life; none the less will that everlasting death await you. — Lucretius
It is not new for the older generation to bewail the indolence of the young, and there is a tendency for the latter to maintain… — David Riesman
Of all things I find most unbearable is the injustice of one generation to another. — Joyce Cary
I never fail to be moved by knowing that the ground on which I walk is layered with the past- with achievement and strife and… — Eva Hoffman
You have to have a canon so the next generation can come along and explode it. — Henry Louis Gates

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