Generations Quote by Ira Gershwin Download Open image “The future of this nation, with the present generation, You must admit is nothing but a joke” — Ira Gershwin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Generations Jokes Time
If you don't focus on the future generation, it means you are destroying your country. — Malala Yousafzai Copy Share Image
“The present generation is the future generation, beware of what you teach them” — J. Nedumaan Copy Share Image
No generation before us has faced a decade of choices that will so profoundly impact the course of life on this planet as those… — Eban Goodstein Copy Share Image
Amongst democratic nations, each new generation is a new people. — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
One of the things that is most striking about the young generation is that they never talk about their own futures, there are no futures for this generation, not any of them and so naturally they never think of them. It is very striking, they do not live in the present they just live, as well as they can, and… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share
The future is not a gift: it is an achievement. Every generation helps make its own future. This is the essential challenge of the… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
My generation will put it right, we're just not making promises that we know we'll never keep. — Genesis Copy Share Image
I'm much more optimistic about this next generation because this is the first global generation. — Gavin Newsom Copy Share Image
I think that to acknowledge a new generation is to acknowledge some degree of obsolescence in yourself, and that is very hard to do… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Summer time an' the livin' is easy, Fish are jumpin' an' the cotton is high. Oh, yo' daddy's rich, and yo' ma' is good-lookin',… — Ira Gershwin Copy Share Image
Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair. — Ira Gershwin Copy Share Image
“But, tell me, is it worth the while To decorate this earth the while The men are so unworthy of our zeal? No more… — Ira Gershwin Copy Share Image
If I'm a guy who doesn't seem so merry, It's just because I'm so misunderstood. When I was young I ate a dictionary, And… — Ira Gershwin Copy Share Image
I got rhythm, I got music, I got my man- Who could ask for anything more? — Ira Gershwin 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