Present Generation Quotes

29 quotes by 28 authors

Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of… — John Adams
Some think that even the ancients who lived long before the present generation, and first framed accounts of the Gods, had a similar view of… — Mary Hunter Austin
The best practical advice I can give to the present generation is to practice the virtue which the Christians call love. — Bertrand Russell
The Righteous Salaf were as fearful of their good deeds being squandered, or not being accepted, as the present generation is certain that their neglect… — Hasan of Basra
Is the minor convenience of allowing the present generation the luxury of doubling its energy consumption every 10 years worth the major hazard of exposing… — David R. Brower
Next Monday the Convention in Virginia will assemble; we have still good hopes of its adoption here: though by no great plurality of votes. South… — George Washington
Even in a crowded field, it is a rare pleasure to come across a prose stylist like Kellie Wells, whose intellect and language bid one… — Jaimy Gordon
We must follow the wisdom of the Brundtland Report. We must pursue development that meets the needs of the present generation without compromising the ability… — Ban Ki-moon
The mental disease of the present generation is impatience of study, contempt of the great masters of ancient wisdom, and a disposition to rely wholly… — Samuel Johnson
No other generation but ours can evangelize the present generation. — John Mott
Hardship is vanishing, but so is style, and the two are more closely connected than the present generation supposes. — E. M. Forster
Marriage does not exist for the benefit of the present generation but for the benefit of the next — Roger Scruton
The American Negro must rebuild his past in order to make his future. Though it is orthodox to think of America as the one country… — Arturo Alfonso Schomburg
I am going to produce a movie of my own. I am not going to stick to the time-tested formulae of Hindi cinema. I want… — Kabir Bedi
It is the privilege and duty of the present generation to pass on to its successors, unimpaired, the heritage of liberty bequeathed to it by… — George B. Cortelyou
History should not be written to make the present generation feel good but to remind us that human affairs are complicated. — Margaret MacMillan
We suffer not from overproduction but from undercirculation. You have heard of technocracy. I wish I had those fellows for my competitors. I'd like to… — Charles Kettering
Pop artists deal with the lowly trivia of possessions and equipment that the present generation is lugging along with it on its safari into the… — J. G. Ballard
Many will, no doubt, prefer to retain old unsystematic names as far as possible, but it is easy to see that the desire to avoid… — Henry Edward Armstrong
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

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