Generation Quote by Simon Schama

No generation can escape history.

— George H. W. Bush

A generation which ignores history has no past — and no future.

— Robert A. Heinlein

Whole generations have forgotten history.

— Pierre Salinger

History can't tell us. Each generation must define itself.

— Geoffrey Ward

“Since history is not an objective reality, but only an imaginative reconstruction of vanished events, the pattern that appears useful and agreeable to one…

— Carl Lotus Becker

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

Perhaps every generation thinks of itself as a lost generation and perhaps every generation is right.

— Erica Jong

“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

I think my generation is a lost generation in a way.

— Nico Muhly

My generation is now the door to memory. That is why I am remembering.

— Joy Harjo

A generation that acquires knowledge without ever understanding how that knowledge can benefit the community is a generation that is not learning what it…

— Elizabeth L Hollander

History should not be written to make the present generation feel good but to remind us that human affairs are complicated.

— Margaret MacMillan