Generations Quote by Geoffrey Ward Download Open image “History can't tell us. Each generation must define itself.” — Geoffrey Ward ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Generations History Inspirational Love
A generation without history is a generation that not only loses a nation's memory but loses a sense of what it's like to be… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
“Each civilization, each nation, each family, each profession, each sex and each class has its own history. Humans have so far been interested mainly… — Theodore Zeldin Copy Share Image
every generation has a conceit of itself which elevates it, in its own opinion, above that which comes after it. — Margaret Oliphant Copy Share Image
What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations ... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
I am not trying to speak for anyone else, never mind an entire generation. I don't even know what that means. — Sally Rooney Copy Share Image
Perhaps every generation thinks of itself as a lost generation and perhaps every generation is right. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Each generation supposes that the world was simpler for the one before it. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
each generation has something different at which they are all looking. — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
I believe this generation should know their history and they should know that the struggle's not over yet. — Mary J. Blige Copy Share Image
I have always had a great interest in visually documenting the past. — Geoffrey Ward Copy Share Image
Most filmmakers aren't very interested in history. They worry constantly that people will be bored. — Geoffrey Ward Copy Share Image
Books provide context and allow you to think about things over time. Film is like writing haiku; there is an immense amount of pleasure… — Geoffrey Ward Copy Share Image
Bill Murray is a wonderful actor, and he's very funny, and I've seen him be serious and terrific. — Geoffrey Ward Copy Share Image
The real Jack Johnson was both more and less than those who loved or those who hated him ever knew. He embodied American individualism… — Geoffrey Ward Copy Share Image
I received a beautiful welcome to the world of music. I want to give something back to the younger generation. — Luciano Pavarotti Copy Share Image
The Beat Generation, that was a vision that we had, John Clellon Holmes and I, and Allen Ginsberg in an even wilder way, in… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
If every nation gets the government it deserves, every generation writes the history which corresponds with its view of the world. — Elizabeth Janeway Copy Share Image
It is worthwhile for anyone to have behind him a few generations of honest, hard-working ancestry. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think leading by example is important, as I know the next generation is watching us. — Michael Skolnik Copy Share Image
David Cronenberg is the most provocative, original, and consistently excellent North American director of his generation. — J. Hoberman Copy Share Image
The Next Generation Space Telescope, which will be located much further away from the Earth than the Hubble Space Telescope presently is, will also… — Claude Nicollier Copy Share Image
The sound man, immune as to a sacrifice of straw dogs, faces the passing human generations. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I think we've all had enough of Coltrane saxophonists. There's a case of someone ruining a generation of saxophonists, as Louis Armstrong may have… — Paul Bley Copy Share Image
Politics...You see, it depends on what kind of politics. What we did during my father's generation was a duty. And it was beautiful because… — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
He removed several pages of death certificates, which were picked up by another breeze and sent into the trees. Some would fall with the… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
