Generations Quote by Leopold von Ranke Download Open image “Every generation is equidistant from God.” — Leopold von Ranke ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Generations God
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
The only generation that can reach this generation is our generation. — Oswald J. Smith Copy Share Image
The generation that cannot be changed by the world is the generation that will change the world. — Ron Luce 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 has something different at which they are all looking. — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
God knows why nobody ever learns from the preceding generation - but they don't. — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Our generation has the ability and the responsibility to make our ever-more connected world a more hopeful, stable and peaceful place. — Natalie Portman Copy Share Image
To history has been assigned the office of judging the past, of instructing the present for the benefit of future ages. To such high… — Leopold von Ranke Copy Share Image
It is striking how history, when resting on the memory of men, always touches the bounds of mythology. — Leopold von Ranke Copy Share Image
In schoolbooks and in literature we can separate ecclesiastical and political history; in the life of mankind they are intertwined. — Leopold von Ranke Copy Share Image
You have reckoned that history ought to judge the past and to instruct the contemporary world as to the future. The present attempt does… — Leopold von Ranke Copy Share Image
He who overcomes himself is divine. Most see their ruin before their eyes; but they go on into it. — Leopold von Ranke Copy Share Image
All ages are equidistant from eternity, and just as immediately accessible to God's presence. — Leopold von Ranke 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
