Generations Quotes

3253 Generations quotes by 2229 unique authors

I've always written. I'm from an older generation of programmers [who] did not come out of engineering. [A]ll sorts of people were drawn in from… — Ellen Ullman
By all means write new songs. Each generation must do that. But to neglect the church's original hymnbook is, to put it bluntly, crazy — N. T. Wright
And it may be that a crowd at a particular moment of history creates the object to justify its gathering, as it did at the… — Jennifer Egan
Before this generation goes on to its ancestors, we should, we must, do our level best to pass on our lessons, so that they live… — Mumia Abu-Jamal
The twentieth century will be chiefly remembered by future generations not as an era of political conflicts or technical inventions, but as an age in… — Arnold J. Toynbee
May our children and our children's children to a thousand generations, continue to enjoy the benefits conferred upon us by a united country, and have… — Abraham Lincoln
I've always said if somebody wrote a book and they took their whole life to learn that knowledge in that book, why you won't just… — Jeff Olson
A Fraternity, too, is of such character that after men have left college they delight to renew their own youth by continued association with it… — Newton D. Baker
A whole generation of young whites have involved themselves with traditional Negro music. — Archie Shepp
History is fond of her grandchildren, for it offers them the marrow of the bones, which the previous generation had hurt its hands in breaking. — Nikolay Chernyshevsky
I'm a first generation American. My mother is Italian and Russian and a lot of other things, and my father is Uruguayan. In fact, my… — Sebastian Arcelus
You know, I'm part of that first MTV generation. — Alexandra Patsavas
I always think about the next generation and creating a different blueprint for them. That's my goal: to let them know there's another way. — Janelle Monae
Maybe, generations ago, young people rebelled out of some clear motive, but now, we know we're rebelling. Between teen movies and sex-ed textbooks we're so… — Daniel Handler
I like the thought that what we are to do on this earth is embellish it for its greater beauty, so that oncoming generations can… — Philip Johnson
As Enlightenment philosophers and scholars consciously adopted the methods of science to establish such abstract concepts as rights, liberty, and justice, successive generations have become… — Michael Shermer
Cafeteria-style education, combined with the unwillingness of our schools to place demands on students, has resulted in a steady diminishment of commonly shared information between… — Edward Hirsch
Civilization could not exist until there was written language, because without written language no generation could bequeath to succeeding generations anything but its simpler findings. — Charlton Laird
The great arbiters of language are the women who speak it in the presence of children... What the women pass on to the next generation… — Charlton Laird
Natural gas will displace coal in power generation. Getting natural gas into the transportation fleet is harder. It works best for vehicles that work from… — John S. Watson
From the time I read my first Hemingway work, The Sun Also Rises, as a student at Soldan High School in St. Louis, I was… — A. E. Hotchner
George Bush is by American standards rabidly Upper Class - Eastern, Socially Attractive, WASP, 19th-century money, several generations of Andover and Yale (and, while we're… — Peter York
Successive generations of middle-class parents used to foist their own favourite books on their children. But some time in the late Eighties it began to… — Peter York
The old process of social assimilation used to be mainly about English new money - generated in London, the mucky, brassy North or the colonies… — Peter York
In issues of recent ethnic wars and genocides - particularly if you look at Darfur - one of the most remarkable things is our inability… — Stephen Daldry

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