Generations Quotations | Page 6

A power to dispose of estates for ever is manifestly absurd. The earth and the fulness of it belongs to every generation, and the preceding one can have no right to bind it up from posterity. Such extension of property is quite unnatural.

I’m doing pretty well. If you don’t get married, you can’t get divorced. Why couldn’t we learn from the devastatingly low percentage of successful marriages that our last generation went through?

Every generation tailors history to its taste.

By looking at climate change as a clean energy generation problem, we're setting ourselves up not to solve it.

We are Scotland's independence generation. And our time is now

The nation is a community. Community of individuals, community of generations.

The generation now coming out of Western schools is unable to distinguish good from bad. Even those words are unacceptable. This results in impaired thinking ability.

Our ideals, laws and customs should be based on the proposition that each generation in turn becomes the custodian rather than the absolute owner of our resources - and each generation has the obligation to pass this inheritance on in the future.

From education by the Church to education by Germanic value is a step of several generations.

Each generation criticizes the unconscious assumptions made by its parent. It may assent to them, but it brings them out in the open.

Modern American literature was born in protest, born in rebellion, born out of the sense of loss and indirection which was imposed upon the new generations out of the realization that the old formal culture-the "New England idea"-could no longer serve.

If education really educates, there will, in time, be more and more citizens who understand that relics of the old West add meaning and value to the new. Youth yet unborn will pole up the Missouri with Lewis and Clark, or climb the Sierras with James Capen Adams, and each generation in turn will ask: Where is the big white bear? It will be a sorry answer to say he went under while conservationists weren't looking.

The modern individual is committed to being successful, not to being a person. He belongs rightly to the action generation whose motto is do more but feel less.

According to Shiva, life is in the end about fixing holes. Shiva didn't speak in metaphors. fixing holes is precisely what he did. Still, it's an apt metaphor for our profession. But there's another kind of hole, and that is the wound that divides family. Sometimes this wound occurs at the moment of birth, sometimes it happens later. We are all fixing what is broken. It is the task of a lifetime. We'll leave much unfinished for the next generation.

We are all fixing what is broken. It is the task of a lifetime. We'll leave much unfinished for the next generation.

And I was shocked to see the mistakes of each generation will just fade like a radio station, if we drive out of range.

Think about it. Right now, a whole generation of young (customers) in the United States has been brought up to take computers for granted. Pointing a mouse is no more mysterious to them than hitting the "on" button on the television is to their parents.

Every generation thinks that they invented sex.

The older generation sat looking at the younger, and Kat wondered exactly when and how the baton had been passed. She wanted to know if it was too late to give it back.

I saw the best minds of my generation who threw their watches off the roof to cast their ballot for Eternity outside of Time, & alarm clocks fell on their heads every day for the next decade.

Affection is the most important thing. And the quality of affection - with your friends, your lovers, your family. But particularly for your own generation.

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.

There are generations yet unborn, whose very lives will be shifted and shaped by the moves you make and the actions you take.

It would show hugely if I didn't want to be somewhere. Doing what you want to do can only generate good energy.

In the process of natural selection, then, any device that can insert a higher proportion of certain genes into subsequent generations will come to characterize the species.

In the end ... success or failure will come down to an ethical decision, one on which those now living will be judged for generations to come.

I grew up on Nickelodeon.On All That and Are You Afraid of the Dark, and Salute Your Shorts and Rocco's Modern Life and all that. That was my generation.

He doesn't translate well into our generation.

There we were all in one place, a generation lost in space.

For she was of that generation who, having found nothing in religion, had formed themselves through literature.

These kids [of the current generation] have no fear of technology ... sort of like I have no fear of a refrigerator.

The Internet was full of sites producing content for free, in the hope that somehow they'd generate revenue from sources that never materialized, whether it was advertising, subscriptions, or a wing and a prayer.

How can I be a part of the 1960s generation when I don't even remember any of it?

I think that to acknowledge a new generation is to acknowledge some degree of obsolescence in yourself, and that is very hard to do and often comes with undeniable anger.

Discussions of generations only go downhill. There's no point in having them.

We're able to influence younger generations on design and art. They might not have realized they were an artist.

The education that we have so far succeeded in giving to the bulk of our citizens has produced a generation of mental slatterns.

If anything is going to halt necessary investments in next generation networks it will be Congress dictating business models to companies.

Despite everything that Harlem did to our generation, I think it gave something to a few. It gave them a strength that couldn't be obtained anywhere else.

Barack Obama is the most antibusiness president in a generation, perhaps in American history.

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.

With reference to the younger generation..."If the experience of their exhausted, insomniac, dispirited elders makes them decide they'd prefer not to go straight from the classroom to the cubicle to the coffin, it doesn't mean they're lazy. It means they're sane."

Every Irish person of my generation and earlier, we were raised Catholic and we'd have to learn it in school, we'd to learn the catechism by rote.

Each generation has its few great mathematicians, and mathematics would not even notice the absence of the others. They are useful as teachers, and their research harms no one, but it is of no importance at all. A mathematician is great or he is nothing.

Broken-hearted leaders change things that go beyond their generation.

Enduring fame is promised only to those writers who can offer to successive generations a substance constantly renewed; for every generation arrives upon the scene with its own particular hunger.

Maybe that was the definition of life everlasting: the belief that the next generation would carry your work forward.

Now, the vicissitudes that afflict the individual have their source in society. It is this situation that has given currency to the phrase social forces. Personal relations have given way to impersonal ones. The Great Society has arrived and the task of our generation is to bring it under control. The study of how it is to be done is the function of politics.

A whole generation of writers dined out on the dialectic between original cultures and their culture by "progress.

Katherine Kenton remains among the generation of women who feel that the most sincere form of flattery is the male erection.

What's burning down is a re-creation of a period revival house patterned after a copy of a copy of a copy of a mock Tudor big manor house. It's a hundred generations removed from anything original, but the truth is aren't we all?

Every generation wants to be the last.

Every generation is more influenced by technology, which is always changing faster.

I honestly believe that people of my generation despise authenticity, mostly because they're all so envious of it.

Three generations from shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves.

A chaste generation would restore Paradise.

It is both humiliating and humbling to discover that a single generation after the events that constructed me as a public personality, I am remembered as a hairdo.

The previous generation, such as Alec Stewart and Nasser Hussain, lost to Australia on many occasions.

Every generation is born into, for the most part, a heterosexual family.

The minds of different generations are as impenetrable one by the other as are the monads of Leibniz.

The Constitution needs allegiance and loyalty and renewal and understanding with each generation, or else it's not going to last.

We think of poverty as a condition simply meaning a lack of funds, no money, but when one sees fifth, sixth, and seventh generation poor, it is clear that poverty is as complicated as high finance.

My first understanding of HIV and AIDS was like everybody else from my generation. In the mid-'80s, we heard about this, and it was terrifying, because we knew nothing about how to respond to it appropriately, and we didn't really understand about how the virus is passed. There was a lot of misconception about that.

In literary history, generation follows generation in a rage.

There were no formerly heroic times, and there was no formerly pure generation. There is no one here but us chickens, and so it has always been.

It is our misfortune, as a historical generation, to live through the largest expansion in expressive capability in human history, a misfortune because abundance breaks more things than scarcity.

The 'Instagram Generation' now experiences the present as an anticipated memory

To assume the gospel in one generation is to lose it in the next.

The Brangwens had lived for generations on the Marsh Farm, in the meadows where the Erewash twisted sluggishly through alder trees, separating Derbyshire from Nottinghamshire.

Older generations are living proof that younger generations can survive their lunacy.

There is no reader so parochial as the one who reads none but this morning's books. Books are not rolls, to be devoured only when they are hot and fresh. A good book retains its interior heat and will warm a generation yet unborn.

Sometimes film is just the family business. Some families are generations of carpenters or farmers, or they make clothes, or they're all lawyers. I'm in the family business.

Every generation’s breakthroughs are proven false by the next generation’s Technology

Like most North Americans of his generation, Hal tends to know way less about why he feels certain ways about the objects and pursuits he's devoted to than he does about the objects and pursuits themselves. It's hard to say for sure whether this is even exceptionally bad, this tendency.

I'm not the comic of the generation, I'm not even the funniest guy in my family.

Gluten is this Generation's Tobacco

This generation can only reach this generation.

All the struggles that were fought for here in the United States for African Americans, you now enjoy the privileges of. You now come here and can enjoy privileges that were fought for by African Americans over several generations.

The world economy is more stable than for a generation ... Our hugely sophisticated financial markets match funds with ideas better than ever before.

The difference between me and other people in my generation is instead of saying the Internet's killing the record business, I say, 'Who cares about the record business, the Internet is enhancing music.

Truly remarkable leadership is not just about motivating others to follow, it's about inspiring them to become leaders themselves and setting the stage for even greater opportunities for future generations.

I'm a third-generation American, so I like that American-looking, Northwestern style with a flannel or jean shirt.

Our generation does not want its epitaph to read, 'We kept charity overhead low.' We want it to read that we changed the world.

We are not a postwar generation, but a pre-peace generation. Jesus is coming.

Drew Dellinger is one of the most creative, courageous and prophetic poets of his generation. I love his spirit. Don't miss him!

Every generation throws a hero up the pop charts.

The Olympic Games are not just ordinary world championships but a quadrennial festival of universal youth. . . celebrated by each succeeding generation as it arrives on the threshold of adulthood.

We are in a strange kind of time, where the kind of liberation movements such as anti-apartheid movements and freedom struggles in India need to be reinvented. We need to retool them so that all the gains that our generation has made can be passed on to future generations.

I grew up in a generation that had exponential technological advances.

The problem with legalization is we already have a dependent generation that's subsidized to oblivion. And will legal pot somehow slice another sliver of the population off of the productive world?

I wouldn't call Adolf Hitler a corporal. Adolf Hitler was looked up to. He was revered almost like a God because he was feared. Adolf Hitler took all of Europe, and my generation had to confront Adolf Hitler.

Pop artists deal with the lowly trivia of possessions and equipment that the present generation is lugging along with it on its safari into the future.

The future of this nation, with the present generation, You must admit is nothing but a joke

Who in the world remembers who won the 1975 Westchester Classic or the 1978 Western Open? Basically, the majors are the only comparison over time . . . played on the same courses for generations. All the best players are always there.

John Clellon Holmes... and I were sitting around trying to think up the meaning of the Lost Generation and the subsequent existentialism and I said 'You know John, this is really a beat generation'; and he leapt up and said, 'That's it, that's right!'

The beat generation (coined in Playboy)

It’s a sort of furtiveness … Like we were a generation of furtive. You know, with an inner knowledge there’s no use flaunting on that level, the level of the ‘public’, a kind of beatness – I mean, being right down to it, to ourselves, because we all really know where we are – and a weariness with all the forms, all the conventions of the world … It’s something like that. So I guess you might say we’re a beat generation.

Lucky individuals in each generation find technology appropriate to their needs.

In the future, a new generation of artists will be writing genomes as fluently as Blake and Byron wrote verses.

Ours is a lost generation, it may be, but it is more blameless than those earlier generations.