Top 96 Next Generations Quotes
#1. It is time for the next generations to continue our struggle against social injustice and for the rights of humanity. It is in your hands.
Nelson Mandela
#2. If you look at the state of our planet, the next generations won't be around if we consider sustainability as a gimmick.
Jochen Zeitz
#3. If the main thing the next generations know about Jewish history is that we were persecuted and suffered, they will lose sight of the tremendous heritage of Jewish culture, theology, and wisdom.
Deborah Lipstadt
#4. Education is the foundation for all we do in life, it shapes who we are and what we aspire to be. Creativity fuels innovation, and it's what all states should strive to instill in the next generations.
Jim Hunt
#5. I have lived through the best years of this country's history. The next generations are going to see war and social calamities. I am glad I don't have to live on into them.
William Graham Sumner
#6. Conscience defined by the elders,
passed on to the next generations.
Toba Beta
#7. A politician thinks about the next elections - the statesman thinks about the next generations.
James Freeman
#8. Those who stand for different causes during different generations often experience the same oppositions and the same difficulties as those of the previous and the next generations. That is the basis of history repeating itself.
Criss Jami
#9. She's more even -[daughter China] - I think it jumps generations. You get a screwball in one, and then the next one is straight, then you get a screwball. My grandmother was goofy, my mother was straight.
Grace Slick
#10. To assume the gospel in one generation is to lose it in the next.
D. A. Carson
#11. We are too careless of posterity; not considering that as they are, so the next generation will be.
William Penn
#12. Somebody asked me what I thought next generation meant and what about the PlayStation 3 was next generation. The only next gen system I've seen is the Wii - the PS3 and the Xbox 360 feel like better versions of the last, but pretty much the same game with incremental improvement.
Will Wright
#13. I am worried that the next generation will not be able to have a real conversation.
Ruth Westheimer
#14. What wakes me up at night is this next generation and what's happening to them. And they're invariably excited about the science that they're doing, but invariably anxious about where there's a future.
Francis Collins
#15. I'm trying to influence the next generation or two generations or three generations behind me. That's a big ambition of mine.
James Frey
#16. It would be absolutely useless for any of us to work to save wildlife without working to educate the next generation of conservationists.
Jane Goodall
#17. Books should be cherished, like children, books are for the next generation, like children, like history.
Edna Ferber
#18. ... I fell in love with him even more, because I realized I was not just falling in love with Taymour but also with generations of him that connect through history, traits that had been passed down from one generation to the next. I was in love with his ancestry that stretched out for centuries.
Saleem Haddad
#19. Will you ever be anything more than a vessel transmitting the genes and memes of previous generations on to the next?
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
#20. I want to inspire the next generation. I want to be in mission control with someone younger than me wanting to break my record.
Felix Baumgartner
#21. Spiritual Awareness is not gained through the use and abuse of drugs, it is only lost, and for just this lifetime but also for the next and future generations to come.
Richard Rensberry
#22. Dear young people, let me now ask you a question. What will you leave to the next generation? Are you building your lives on firm foundations, building something that will endure?
Pope Benedict XVI
#23. It is the rare and strong person that can carry their trauma without having it spill into the next generation.
Bruce D. Perry
#24. If baking at Zomick's bakery is any labor at all, it's a labor of love. A love that gets passed from one Zomick's generation to the next one.
Zomick's Bakery
#25. The great arbiters of language are the women who speak it in the presence of children ... What the women pass on to the next generation is "right" and what they do not bother to pass on to their children sooner or later becomes "wrong.
Charlton Laird
#26. For in this century, within the next decades, will be decided for generations whether all mankind is to become Communist, whether the whole world is to become free, or whether, in the struggle, civilization as we know it is to be completely destroyed or completely changed.
Whittaker Chambers
#27. A nuclear-weapons-free world is our commitment to the next generation.
Amit Ray
#28. The gesture with which one generation guards the next is the movement, and the only time we see it clearly, of life itself.
Storm Jameson
#29. The evidence that I see around me in society indicates that not only is thinking very much out of favor, but I'm not sure that the last couple of generations - Generation X and Generation Next, or whatever you want to call them - even know what a thought is, having been raised to be women.
Dave Sim
#30. It's what the mainstream does - they absorb things and they blunt the power of it. And so the next generation and the next generation has to become more shocking and more provocative in order to get any rise out of anybody.
Billy Corgan
#31. Like all artists, I want to cheat death a little and contribute something to the next generation.
Dennis Hopper
#32. Out of the sighs of one generation are kneaded the hopes of the next.
Machado De Assis
#33. The measure of our success will be the condition on which we leave the world for the next generation.
Robert Redford
#34. Perhaps most ridiculous of all is the suggestion that we 'keep' our radioactive garbage for the use of our descendants. This 'solution', I think, requires an immediate poll of the next 20,000 generations.
David R. Brower
#35. In the fifth season [of Star Trek: The Next Generation] viewers will see more of shipboard life [including] gay crew members in day-to-day circumstances.
Gene Roddenberry
#36. If you have done well in whatever business you are in, it is your duty to send the elevator back down and try to help bring up the next generation of undiscovered talent.
Kevin Spacey
#37. The knowledge of one generation is the ignorance of the next.
Frances Wright
#38. It seems very strange ... that in the course of the world's history so obvious an improvement should never have been adopted ... The next generation of Britishers would be the better for having had this extra hour of daylight in their childhood.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#39. Globalisation can provide the route for the development of a sustainable and prosperous planetary society in the next generation, provided that globalisation itself becomes more civilised than it is right now.
Peter Ellyard
#40. So, the emerging church is about a re-imagining: re-imagining our preaching, our evangelism, and our worship services. A re-imagining of new types of churches and an opportunity to be rethinking all we do because we recognize that the next generation is at stake if we don't.
Dan Kimball
#41. Leaders are like gardeners ... As leaders we are not only responsible for harvesting our own success but for cultivating the success of the next generation.
Susan Collins
#43. I don't want this music to die.The older people are passing it on to the younger generation so the younger generation can pass it on to the next generation.
Vy Higginsen
#44. I can help the next generation remember the lineage of great companies here and how to continue the tradition. The Valley has been very supportive of me. I should do my best to repay.
Steve Jobs
#45. Life affords no greater responsibility, no greater privilege, than the raising of the next generation
C. Everett Koop
#46. For me, the meaning of life is the next generation.
Grace Paley
#47. We're handing them [young people & future generations] a climate system which is potentially out of their control. We're in an emergency: you can see what's on the horizon over the next few decades with the effects it will have on ecosystems, sea level and species extinction
James Hansen
#48. The dissenting opinions of one generation become the prevailing interpretation of the next.
Burton J. Hendrick
#49. Big banks are more dangerous than standing armies, and the practice of borrowing and spending money to be paid back by the next generation is stealing from their future.
Thomas Jefferson
#50. Parenthood ... It's about guiding the next generation, and forgiving the last.
Peter Krause
#51. Homosexuality is Satan's diabolical attack upon the family that will not only have a corrupting influence upon our next generation, but it will also bring down the wrath of God upon America.
Jerry Falwell
#52. Man is fatally slow on the uptake; it always takes him until the next generation to understand what's going on.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
#53. But ultimately, the purpose of marriage is to transmit civilization to the next generation. There has never been an institution that does it as well as marriage, and that is marriage between a man and a woman.
Ann Coulter
#54. Is the minor convenience of allowing the present generation the luxury of doubling its energy consumption every 10 years worth the major hazard of exposing the next 20,000 generations to this lethal waste?
David R. Brower
#55. The most important business of one generation is the raising of the next generation. Nothing else you do in life will be as deeply satisfying ...
George Will
#56. The future of mankind is going to be decided within the next two generations, and there are two absolute requisites: We must aim at a stable-state society [with limited population growth] and the destruction of nuclear stockpiles. ... Otherwise I don't see how we can survive much later than 2050.
Jacques Monod
#57. We have an obligation to make things beautiful. Not to leave the world uglier than we found it, not to empty the oceans, not to leave our problems for the next generation.
Neil Gaiman
#58. We'll never surrender, we'll win or die
you've to fight the next generation and the next ...
and I'll live more than my hanger
Omar Mukhtar
#59. Each generation is responsible to make the future of the next.
Nancy Pelosi
#60. Two [Massachusetts coal burning power plants] remain: Brayton Point in the South Coast region and Mt. Tom, just down the road. Within the next four years, both should shut down and Massachusetts should finally end all reliance on conventional coal generation.
Deval Patrick
#61. Even the humblest men have a strange reason behind greed. Every man thinks money solves problems - and every man thinks not just of himself, but his next three generations - there is a probability he will live to see those generations - and he wants to care for them in times of strife.
Siddharth Katragadda
#62. I still believe that term limits is the best way to ensure that the next generation, not the next election, is the central concern in our elected bodies.
Tom Coburn
#63. We need to encourage members of this next generation to become all that they can become, not try to force them to become what we want them to become ... You and I can't even begin to dream the dreams this next generation is going to dream, or answer the questions that will be put to them.
Barbara Coloroso
#64. I'm a Republican who embraces science and understands we have to work with the next generation of millennials to have the innovation and technology so that we can grow a 21st century economy.
George Pataki
#65. What one generation sees as a luxury, the next sees as a necessity.
Anthony Crosland
#66. Why are the architects of the family-values agenda so eager to punish into the next generation? What is being served by seeking, quite literally, a tooth for a tooth?
Ayelet Waldman
#67. If I want to build wealth to transfer to the next generation, I can let it grow on a tax-free basis.
Arthur Nersesian
#68. If the church marries herself to the spirit of the times, she will find herself a widow in the next generation.
Charles Stanley
#69. Our Ancestors knew that healing comes in cycles and circles.
One generation carries the pain so that the next can live and heal.
One cannot live without the other, each is the other's hope, meaning & strength.
Gemma B. Benton
#71. There are many beautiful toys on this earth. We must use them with care so that the next generation will find them intact and use them also.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
#72. The rise of the Net and the Web represents a victory for the counterculture and the subculture. The next generation, raised on the Net as their primary medium, won't even know what consensus reality is.
R.U. Sirius
#73. The last generations's worst fears become the next one's B-grade entertainment.
Barbara Kingsolver
#74. The ideal visions of one age eventually are seen as its excesses by the next.
Lillian B. Rubin
#75. Education is only the most fully conscious of the channels whereby each generation influences the next.
C.S. Lewis
#76. Whether they run a record company or a grocery store, every boss will tell you you're in big trouble if you're borrowing more than you can ever afford to pay back. Delaying the pain for future generations is suicidal. We've got to start getting the deficit down right now, not next year.
Simon Cowell
#77. America's education system has become less a ladder of opportunity than a structure to transmit inequity from one generation to the next.
Nicholas Kristof
#78. We know that the next several generations need a better world to live in, which can only be a post-Obama World.
Kesha Rogers
#79. Even if we mortgage the next 100 years of generations of human beings, we would not have enough energy to build a Death Star.
Michio Kaku
#80. If anything is going to halt necessary investments in next generation networks it will be Congress dictating business models to companies.
Claudia Jones
#81. Everybody makes money when times are good. It's when times are not so good that the groundwork is laid for the next generation.
Stephen Harper
#82. A failed structure provides a counterexample to a hypothesis and shows us incontrovertibly what cannot be done, while a structure that stands without incident often conceals whatever lessons or caveats it might hold for the next generation of engineers.
Henry Petroski
#83. Art is how a culture records its life, how it poses questions for the next generation and how it will be remembered.
Marsha Norman
#84. What we need to do is not only live within our means, but start paying down the deficit, and offer an opportunity at least for the next generation to get out.
Ron Paul
#85. The problems that agitate one generation are exstinguished for the next, not because they have been solved but because the general lack of interest sweeps them away.
Cesare Pavese
#86. We have a responsibility to carry the baton of faith to the next generation.
Christine Caine
#87. I don't want the next generation to fight the same fight as I did.
Ai Weiwei
#88. You want to take some responsibility for you choices so that it sets the groundwork for that next generation of actresses.
Nicole Kidman
#89. The heterodoxy of one generation is the orthodoxy of the next.
Edith Hamilton
#90. You have to find a way to not become bitter and live within the parameters of the situation and laugh your way through it ... and you hope for a better day for the next generation.
Yvette Nicole Brown
#91. It is our job, as members of parliament, to legislate with an eye to the long term future, to look over the horizon beyond the next election and ensure that as far as we can what we do today will make Australia a better place, a safer place, for future generations to live in.
Malcolm Turnbull
#92. The duty of a good Cuisinier is to transmit to the next generation everything he has learned and experienced.
Fernand Point
#93. You can rave about Stravinsky without the slightest risk of being classified as a lunatic by the next generation .
George Bernard Shaw
#94. Contrary to the prevailing notion that good governance is bad politics, in reality good governance is good politics. A government should work keeping in mind the welfare of future generations, not the next election.
Narendra Modi
#95. There are hundreds of stories I've heard from black women from my generation, generations before me, and the next, that have never been given an opportunity to fulfill their dreams.
Misty Copeland
#96. The next generation product almost never comes from the previous generation.
Al Ries
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