Generations Quotes - Page 7

• I plant a lot of trees. I am a great believer in planting things for future generations. I loathe the now culture where you just live for today.

  Penelope Keith

  Nature, Grandchildren, Tree

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• A science is any discipline in which the fool of this generation can go beyond the point reached by the genius of the last generation.

  Max Gluckman

  Teaching, Learning, Science

  Max Gluckman (2012). “Politics, Law and Ritual in Tribal Society”, p.32, AldineTransaction

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• It's a struggle but that's why we exist, so that another generation of Lesbians of color will not have to invent themselves, or their history, all over again.

  Audre Lorde

  Struggle, Color

  Audre Lorde, Joan Wylie Hall (2004). “Conversations with Audre Lorde”, p.130, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience... from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Memories, Literature, Way

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• 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

  Children, Names, Way

  Spurgeon, Charles (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 34: Sermons 2001-2061”, p.115, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• Each new generation is a fresh invasion of savages.

  Hervey Allen

  Savages, Invasion, New Generation

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• I'm speaking for all of us. I'm the spokesman for a generation.

  Bob Dylan

  Talking

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Birthday, Book, Writing

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.65, Penguin

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• An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Writing, Literature, Next

  Letter to Booksellers' Convention, Apr. 1920

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• The year I was born, 1956, was the peak year for babies being born, and there are more people essentially our age than anybody else. We could crush these new generations if we decided too.

  Tom Hanks

  Birthday, Crush, Baby

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My daddy expected that my brothers and I and our generation would make the world a better place. He had lived in an America of continual social progress.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Brother, Our Generation, America

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• The most important thing about global warming is this. Whether humans are responsible for the bulk of climate change is going to be left to the scientists, but it's all of our responsibility to leave this planet in better shape for the future generations than we found it.

  Mike Huckabee

  Responsibility, Environmental, Important

  The Republicans' First Presidential Candidates Debate, www.nytimes.com. May 3, 2007.

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• Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.

  Thomas Sowell

  Civilization, Too Late, Invasion

  Thomas Sowell (2007). “A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles”, p.108, Hachette UK

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• A man's liberal and conservative phases seem to follow each other in a succession of waves from the time he is born. Children are radicals. Youths are conservatives, with a dash of criminal negligence. Men in their prime are liberals (as long as their digestion keeps pace with their intellect). The middle aged run to shelter: they insure their life, draft a will, accumulate mementos and occasional tables, and hope for security. And then comes old age, which repeats childhood - a time full of humors and sadness, but often full of courage and even prophecy.

  E. B. White

  Running, Children, Sadness

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• We must oppose programs that would take food from the mouths of younger generations to buy prescription drugs for old people, and we must do it... for the children.

  L. Neil Smith

  Children, People, Drug

  "How Many Americans Does It Take to Change a Dim Bulb?". Remarks to the Second Annual Freedom Summit, www.lneilsmith.org. October 12-13, 2002.

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• The great Jewish scientists and philosophers of the last few generations - Spinoza, Einstein, Freud, Robert Oppenheimer and others - were natives of Europe and America.

  David Ben-Gurion

  Europe And America, Lasts, Philosopher

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• We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go.

  Timothy Leary

  Education, Humorous, Learning

  "Rolling Stone" Twentieth Anniversary Issue, 1987.

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• The old know what they want; the young are sad and bewildered.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Literature, Want, Young

  Logan Pearsall Smith (1931). “Afterthoughts”

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• The moral code which was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for our children.

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

  Children, Father, Not Good Enough

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1994). “Aphorisms”, Ariadne Press (CA)

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• All change, all production and generation are effected through the word.

  Bill Vaughan

  Productions

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• That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Wisdom, Political, Politics

  Adlai E. Stevenson (1954). “Call to Greatness”

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• A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.

  James Freeman Clarke

  Witty, Thinking, Political

  "A Politician’s Christmas Carol" by Tom Gerdy, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 5, 2012.

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• I believe we need to attract a new generation of the best and brightest to public service and I believe that government can be a source of inspiration, not degradation.

  Andrew Cuomo

  Believe, Inspiration, Government

  FaceBook post by Governor Andrew Cuomo from Nov 08, 2016

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• Each generation must go further than the last or what's the use in it?

  Meridel Le Sueur

  Use, Lasts

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• Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.

  Robert Kennedy

  Change, Courage, Creativity

  Robert F. Kennedy (1998). “Make Gentle the Life of the World: The Vision of Robert F. Kennedy”, Harcourt

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