Generations Quote by Greek Proverb

This generation has come into the world fatally late for some enterprises. Go where we will on the surface of things, men have been…

— Henry David Thoreau

The generations of men run on in the tide of time, but leave their destined lineaments permanent for ever and ever.

— William Blake

“And men will not understand us—for the generation that grew up before us, though it has passed these years with us already had a…

— Erich Maria Remarque

“and new conditions of existence will spring up, to which other men will grow just as accustomed, and I shall not know about them,…

— Leo Tolstoy

“It goes without saying that you could not vanquish the ignorant masses around you; little by little, as you advance in life, you will…

— Anton Chekhov

We must develop the capacity to see men not as they are at present but as they may become.

— Thomas S. Monson

From time to time there appear on the face of the earth men of rare and consummate excellence, who dazzle us by their virtue,…

— Jean de la Bruyere

Whatever their future, at the dawn of their lives, men seek a noble vision of man's nature and of life's potential.

— Ayn Rand

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

Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“We have begun a fight that it may be will take many a generation to complete...but you know that men are not put into…

— Woodrow Wilson

Generations to come will scarce believe that such a one as this walked the earth in flesh and blood.

— Albert Einstein