Quotes About Generations

#1. If you look at the muscularity of something like 'Wicked' and the way it has just spawned sort of generations of young people wanting to get involved in the theatre - it's brilliant.

John Logan

#2. But the basic value of a sustainable society, the ecological equivalent of the Golden Rule, is simple: each generation should meet its needs without jeopardizing the prospects for future generations to meet their own needs.

Alan Thein Durning

#3. Our veterans connect generations and Canadians. As a country and as individuals, we gain in pride and in purpose from their deeds and their service.

Paul Martin

#4. At this place, Jews have prayed throughout the generations, and it is fitting that the message of brotherhood should go out from here.

Ehud Barak

#5. If God wanted to forgive our sins, why not just forgive them, without having himself tortured and executed in payment - thereby, incidentally, condemning remote future generations of Jews to pogroms and persecution as 'Christ-killers': did that hereditary sin pass down in the semen too?

Richard Dawkins

#6. I come from an immigrant culture. I'm only a couple of generations away from having been a servant girl myself.

Caitlin Flanagan

#7. The highly motivated young people who comprise the backbone of our military force truly are taking their place as one of America's greatest generations.

Trent Lott

#8. We should not weep or cry or be upset when we see the generations pass, because all are forms of the infinite creation. They are not real, they are not eternal.

Frederick Lenz

#9. I ask you, people who care about the soul of Ukraine, those who want to preserve the heart, the spirit and the faith of our country for future generations, to please defend it.

Yulia Tymoshenko

#10. The greatest hope most Americans - including Republicans - had when Barack Obama was elected president was that the election of a black person as the country's president would reduce, if not come close to eliminating, the racial tensions that have plagued America for generations.

Dennis Prager

#11. A good story, a story resonant and remarkable, can be remade endlessly to tell new sides of itself for new generations of readers.

Jean Hanff Korelitz

#12. All the young people in fashion worship the people who have been around a long time. I think it is about keeping something going through the generations. Take my work: Just because I'm not 20 anymore doesn't mean that people don't appreciate what I do.

Alber Elbaz

#13. Psychologists suggest that we must reach back at least three generations to look for clues whenever we begin untangling the emotional legacy of any one family's history.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#14. When I thought of the ways I preferred to die, I wanted to be a hundred years old and surrounded by generations of adoring descendants. Though a hair dryer and an ill-timed fall into a tub was far more likely. I never considered deer or drunk drivers.

Molly Harper

#15. Paradoxically, since gay men rarely have gay parents, cultural transmission must come from friends or strangers (a problem since the generations so seldom mix in gay life).

Edmund White

#16. I love creating stories, dreaming up characters and breathing life into them. From several generations of Irish storytellers, I think that's what I was born to do.

Linda Conrad

#17. There are so many people who've come before us,
arrows and wagon wheels, obsidian tools, buffalo.
Look out at the meadow, you can almost see them,
generations dissolved in the bluegrass and hay.
I want to try and be terrific. Even for an hour.

Ada Limon

#18. I like the way the word Witch connects us back through all the generations of those who went before us who harnessed the power of the elements and magick to improve their lives and deepen their connection with the natural world.

Deborah Blake

#19. Governor Sanders showed true leadership and character by supporting civil rights for all during a time when many were not, His lasting positive impact on our state will be felt by many future generations of Georgians.

Nathan Deal

#20. Then Mattie journeyed away from her home toward freedom and her family, leaving behind the bones of generations of her ancestors and their captors

Laila Ibrahim

#21. Flowers so strictly belong to youth, that we adult men soon come to feel, that their beautiful generations concern not us: we havehad our day; now let the children have theirs. The flowers jilt us, and we are old bachelors with our ridiculous tenderness.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#22. A politician thinks about the next elections - the statesman thinks about the next generations.

James Freeman

#23. Planning ahead is a measure of class. The rich and even the middle class plan for future generations, but the poor can plan ahead only a few weeks or days.

Gloria Steinem

#24. For us, it's a matter of just staying alive and getting the best deal we can now. Eventually, this will all straighten out. It may be two generations away or 10 generations away, but time is irrelevant in that sense. As long as we, as a people, stay alive, we will survive.

John Trudell

#25. After the French Revolution, the world money power shifted from Paris to London. For three generations, the British maintained an old-fashioned colonial empire, as well as a modern empire based on London's primacy in the money markets.

Gore Vidal

#26. With the possible exception of grits, there's no food more Southern than greens, whose bitter smell while cooking down in salty fatback amid the jittery hiss of a pressure cooker is a Proustian madeleine for generations of black and white Southerners alike. The

Sela Ward

#27. We hold our dreams and ideals close to our hearts, where the promises are made to the future generations.

John Rachel

#28. Maybe she'd seen too many Japanese horror movies, and maybe it was just a tingle of warning from generations of superstitious ancestors, but suddenly she knew that what Alyssa wanted was not to be saved, but for Shane to join her. In death.

Rachel Caine

#29. Future generations will probably be able to enlighten us on this very interesting subject, and then science itself - with all due respect - may reach conclusions that are more or less in keeping with Christ's sayings about the other half of our life.

Vincent Van Gogh

#30. Tonight, we reclaim our country so that we can pass on to future generations the freedoms and the opportunity that we have inherited from those who came before us.

Alan Nunnelee

#31. Here in America, those who once had no hope will give their kids the chance at a life they always wanted for themselves. Here in America, generations of unfulfilled dreams will finally come to pass.

Marco Rubio

#32. It is clear that all the valuable things, material, spiritual, and moral, which we receive from society can be traced back through countless generations to certain creative individuals. The use of fire, the cultivation of edible plants, the steam engine - each was discovered by one man.

Albert Einstein

#33. Our human awareness is so powerful that even if we tap only a small part of it we can accomplish more that we ever thought possible. Using our complete potential, we can soar to the height where our accomplishments have great and lasting value for both ourselves and for future generations.

Tarthang Tulku

#34. Those who wish to punish the current and future generations for the inequities of a generation long gone, and who equate justice with revenge, are the most dangerous people in the world.

Dean Koontz

#35. Protecting the environment is really important to everyone's welfare - that of our children, as well as that of the future generations.

Yaya Toure

#36. Many of the earth's habitats, animals, plants, insects and even micro-organisms that we know to be rare may not be known at all by future generations. We have the capability and the responsibility to act; we must do so before it is too late.

Dalai Lama

#37. It's not so weird that four generations are living together under the same roof and trying to make it work. It's how a lot of people in this country are living right now.

Martha Plimpton

#38. If you succumb to the temptation of using violence in the struggle, unborn generations will be the recipients of a long and desolate night of bitterness, and your chief legacy to the future will be an endless reign of meaningless chaos.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#39. My family is American, and has been for generations, in all its branches, direct and collateral

Ulysses S. Grant

#40. With common purpose comes, a mission and we should use it for far greater objectives, for human lives and to save our future generations.

Santosh Kalwar

#41. We believe democracy to be the only real guarantor of stability and we have sought to create a 'Jordanian model' that might also inspire others in our region. I wish democracy and peace to be my legacy to my people and the shield of generations to come.

King Hussein I

#42. We hold this land only for a time. Whether we win it in peace or war, we hold it only in trust for other peoples, and other generations.

Louis L'Amour

#43. When I look up, there are women as far as I can see, standing in the river one behind the other, generations going back to the beginning time, from the very womb of God.

Jonathan Odell

#44. That sense of sacredness, that thinking in generations, must begin with reverence for this earth.

Paul Tsongas

#45. When William the Conqueror commissioned a great survey of his English realm at Gloucester in 1085, the result was a work so thorough, fair, dispassionate, and wide-ranging that it seemed to the succeeding generations to have come from another world.

James Buchan

#46. People have been bred to hate for generations -- eons, maybe. Some fundamental urge. Something implicit in the human condition.

Allan Dare Pearce

#47. On closer examination, we are simply a banal tragedy spread over two generations.

Peter Hoeg

#48. Our work is before us. It cannot be passed to future legislatures and must not be passed to future generations. May we boldly seize the moment with singular unity. And may we build a Texas of unlimited possibility.

Rick Perry

#49. My little hobby. Book Collecting. And yet, old friends, books do not age as you and I do. They will speak still when we are gone, to generations we will never see. Yes, the books must survive. -Bulldog

Corrie Ten Boom

#50. One of the sad realities today is that very few people, especially young people, read books. Unless we can find imaginative ways of addressing this reality, future generations are in danger of losing their history.

Nelson Mandela

#51. When I do my shows, it's really cross-generational. Sometimes there's three generations there.

Paloma Faith

#52. Led Zeppelin has been there through three generations of teenage angst. And there's a generation of kids now who won't know it, post-Linkin Park.

Robert Plant

#53. Younger generations in particular, who have spent a great deal of time in information environments since they were small children, would feel like a fish out of water if they were shut out of the global stream of information.

Hubert Burda

#54. As with many things in life-what we know at 30we wish we knew at 20-what we know at 40we wish we knew at 25and so on. 'If I knew then, what I know now' is the old adage that has been said for generations.

Kim Mitchell

#55. As a Green, my goal is to put a smile on the face of the coming generations.

Bob Brown

#56. German people get very uptight if you mention World War II. Germans today feel that what's past is past, new generations don't really remember it.

Donna Summer

#57. But more than anything else, my female friends and I need each other because we do not have, unlike women of previous generations, a clear life path laid out for us.

Costanza Miriano

#58. Coming to the Bible through commentaries is much like looking at a landscape through garret windows, over which generations of unmolested spiders have spun their webs.

Henry Ward Beecher

#59. The hard discipline, with the exception of one great good point, is fraught with evil. The good point is that men can do one or two things well with very little effort, having practiced them every day through generations.

Swami Vivekananda

#60. Natural selection will not remove ignorance from future generations.

Richard Dawkins

#61. Each wrong idea we follow is a crime committed against future generations.

Arthur Koestler

#62. Generations of women have been told they are delusional, confused, manipulative, malicious, conspiratorial, congenitally dishonest, often all at once. Part

Rebecca Solnit

#63. If you look deeply into the palm of your hand, you will see your parents and all generations of your ancestors. All of them are alive in this moment. Each is present in your body. You are the continuation of each of these people.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#64. If we focused on using the opportunities we have, which are very great by any standard - health, longevity, comfort and privacy, endless resources of culture and information - we would not just navigate this world, we would leave a good inheritance to succeeding generations.

Marilynne Robinson

#65. The Chinese people will be busy with their own affairs for generations to come and there is no need at all for the country to threaten anybody or any nation.

Zheng Bijian

#66. When you talk or write or film, you work with the music inside you, the music that formed you. Different generations have different musics in them, so whatever they do, it's going to come out differently, and it will speak in beats of their own generation.

Robert Krulwich

#67. I do not believe in a child world. It is a fantasy world. I believe the child should be taught from the very first that the whole world is his world, that adult and child share one world, that all generations are needed.

Pearl S. Buck

#68. We believe that peace is not just signed papers, but rather a contract between generations for the building of a more promising and less threatening future.

King Hussein I

#69. Chamfort, echoing the misanthropic attitude of generations of philosophers before and after him, put the matter simply: 'Public opinion is the worst of all opinions.

Alain De Botton

#70. I am the first male member of my family for about three generations who can have reasonable confidence in expecting that I will leave this earth with more or less the same number of fingers, hands, legs, toes and eyes as I had when I was born.

Neil Kinnock

#71. A nation is not defined by its borders or the boundaries of its land mass Rather, a nation is defined by adverse people who have been unified by a cause and a value system and who are committed to a vision for the type of society they wish to live in and give to the future generations to come.

Fela Durotoye

#72. Comparisons are really no good in sport, especially if it is a comparison between different eras and generations, for there are so many variables that come into play, starting from the quality of the opposition to playing conditions.

Sunil Gavaskar

#73. The voices blend and fuse in clouded silence: silence that is infinite of space: and swiftly, silently the sound is wafted over regions of cycles of cycles of generations that have lived.

James Joyce

#74. Laura Ingalls Wilder's 'Little House' series is a national treasure, beloved by generations. But what I love most is the peek it provides into the planting, harvesting, hunting, and preparing of the foods that America's settler families ate in the late 1800s.

Isabel Gillies

#75. It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

Kahlil Gibran

#76. If you see a group of people struggling over generations and you attribute those struggles to bad character, then you do not truly believe we are all created equally.

Jonathan R. Miller

#77. We of Macedon for generations past have been trained in the hard school of danger and war

Alexander The Great

#78. We have come to a turning point in the road. If we turn to the right mayhap our children and our children's children will go that way; but if we turn to the left, generations yet unborn will curse our names for having been unfaithful to God and to His Word.

Charles Spurgeon

#79. Baseball is continuous, like nothing else among American things, an endless game of repeated summers, joining the long generations of all the fathers and all the sons.

Donald Hall

#80. The world can't die. Many generations have thought the world was dying. But it was only their world which was dying.

Tadeusz Konwicki

#81. Centuries would yet pass before the mighty works of fifty generations of humans would decay past use. Only the declining powers of men, themselves, rendered them useless now.

Isaac Asimov

#82. I come from a long line of generations!

Charles M. Schulz

#83. All about the fucking money... money... money... thinking it's for the good for your generation... but so far it's neither and for that and neither and for that... It's mostly for the worst of your generation and other's generations.

Deyth Banger

#84. What would it be like to feel so attached, so intrinsically bonded, so protective of one's own best connection with time and the ages, of generations past and future, of another human life, of their time?

J.R. Tompkins

#85. Jazz celebrates older generations and not just the youth movement. When you 'sell' only to people of a certain age, you get cut off from the main body of experience.

Wynton Marsalis

#86. Huh! It is only a pahari," said Kim over his shoulder. "Since when have the hill-asses owned all Hindustan?"
The retort was a swift and brilliant sketch of Kim's pedigree for three generations.

Rudyard Kipling

#87. If we intend to provide a better life, and a better world, for future generations, we can't ignore the quality of the environment we leave them.

John Kasich

#88. Our ancestors derived less from life than we do, but they also expected much less and were less intent on controlling the future. We are of the arrogant generations who believe a lasting happiness was promised to us at birth. Promised? By whom?

Amin Maalouf

#89. I'm drawing from two generations back how to think about music, how to think about why you travel to make music, what the possible pitfalls of that are for the way your life is structured. The good and bad of all of it get into the mix of what's created, what you're creating.

Elvis Costello

#90. It's very strange that most people don't care if their knowledge of their family history only goes back three generations.

Douglas Coupland

#91. It is worthwhile for anyone to have behind him a few generations of honest, hard-working ancestry.

John Phillips Marquand

#92. The institutions founded 'to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war' have failed. Since the end of WW2, some thirty million people have been killed in armed conflict. Most of them were civilians.

George Monbiot

#93. When you have power you don't have to tell the truth. That's a rule that's been working in this world for generations. And there are a great many people who don't tell the truth when they are in power in administrative positions.

Dean Burk

#94. We have been through four and five generations of technology since the PATRIOT Act.

Carly Fiorina

#95. People can waste a large amount of their time trying to be accepted by people. Sometimes, God meant for you not to fit. You never know, you may hold the unique perspective that when voiced or demonstrated will change generations.

Shannon L. Alder

#96. American foreign policy must be more than the management of crisis. It must have a great and guiding goal: to turn this time of American influence into generations of democratic peace.

George W. Bush

#97. These are challenging times at home and around the world. We will have to work together in a bipartisan spirit and with our international partners if we are going to achieve progress and peace now and for future generations.

Susan Collins

#98. My soul always reverts to the Old Testament and to Shakespeare. There at least one feels that it's human beings talking. There people hate, people love, people murder their enemy and curse his descendants through all generations, there people sin.

Soren Kierkegaard

#99. I guess there was some Casper guy, like, 10 generations ago who I'm named after. I'm the 11th. My son is Casper the XII.

Casper Van Dien

#100. One of hardest for any historian or a biographer to do is to capture convincingly on paper something as ethereal as charisma. It's a relative term, and different generations define it differently.

Richard Norton Smith