One Generation Quotes

95 quotes by 79 authors

It requires but a very small glance of thought to perceive, that although laws made in one generation often continue in force through succeeding generations,… — Thomas Paine
I cannot but think it an evil sign of a people when their houses are built to last for one generation only. — John Ruskin
Freedom is always just one generation away from extinction. We don't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. We have to fight for it… — Ronald Reagan
The little religion that I have clung to-that what matters most is the continuity of life, and its improvement from one generation to another. — David O. Selznick
What is education? Properly speaking, there is no such thing as education. Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
But I don't write about sex for today's teenagers. Or Doc Martens boots either. I'm more interested in exploring how exactly the world is run,… — Nina Bawden
But what parent can tell when some . . . fragmentary gift of knowledge or wisdom will enrich her children's lives? Or how a small… — Helena Rubinstein
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
Out of the sighs of one generation are kneaded the hopes of the next. — Machado de Assis
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
Of all things I find most unbearable is the injustice of one generation to another. — Joyce Cary
What is buried in the past of one generation falls to the next to claim. — Susan Griffin
My dad, as a guy, had to quit school in the ninth grade, fought in the Battle of the Bulge. And spent his life pushing… — John Barrasso
The Don Quixote of one generation may live to hear himself called the savior of society by the next. — James Russell Lowell
Nobody can be rich and stupid for more than one generation. — Romano Prodi
But we have not used our waters well. Our major rivers are defiled by noxious debris. Pollutants from cities and industries kill the fish in… — Lyndon B. Johnson
It is preposterous to suppose that the people of one generation can lay down the best and only rules of government for all who are… — Ulysses S. Grant
From one generation to the next, The Beatles will remain the most important rock band of all time. — Dave Grohl
For the first time in the history of mankind, one generation literally has the power to destroy the past, the present and the future, the… — Hubert H. Humphrey
The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next. — Abraham Lincoln

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