Generations Quote by Edward Gibbon

“Each generation lives in the absolute: it behaves as if it had reached the apex if not the end of history.”

— Emil M. Cioran

It is time that we, who are without kings, took up this bright thread of our history and followed it to the only place…

— Arthur Miller

Generations are as the days of toilsome mankind; death and birth are the vesper and the matin bells that summon mankind to sleep and…

— Thomas Carlyle

In a few years there will be only five kings in the world the King of Attitude and the four kings in a pack…

— The-Faizan Ali King Khan

Kings need the world, but the world does not need the kings! Let them disappear like the horrible ghosts of the nightmares!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

I am Emperor, my descendants will be numerous. From the second generation to the ten thousandth, my line will not end.

— Qin Shi Huang

“If there is any period one would desire to be born in, ⎯ is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.

— Will Durant

Every generation of children offers mankind the possibility of rebuilding his ruin of a world.

— Eglantyne Jebb

Those spacious regions where our fancies roam, Pain'd by the past, expecting ills to come, In some dread moment, by the fates assign'd, Shall…

— Petrarch

No more generations of our youth, here and all around the world, whose life is over, whose fate has been sealed, who have been…

— Bob Avakian

Everyone is born a king, and most people die in exile.

— Oscar Wilde