Generations Quote by Lois Lowry

Everyone believes in his youth that the world really began with him, and that all merely exists for his sake.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The man who thinks only of his own generation is born for few.

— Seneca the Younger

The whole world is a man's birthplace.

— Caecilius Statius

Nay, in every epoch of the world, the great event, parent of all others, is it not the arrival of a Thinker in the…

— Thomas Carlyle

Keep in mind that every single generation before us has worked under the assumption that they possessed all the major tools for understanding the…

— David Eagleman

Every generation is equidistant from God.

— Leopold von Ranke

For my sake, the entire world was created.

— Baal Shem Tov

“Everyone believes in his youth that the world really began with him, and that all merely exist for his sake.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Going beyond “Every nation in my generation” to “Every Generation in my nation”

— Tan Seow How

All his successors gone before him have done 't; and all his ancestors that come after him may.

— William Shakespeare

Each generation supposes that the world was simpler for the one before it.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

I thought that all generations were lost by something and always had been and always would be

— Ernest Hemingway