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No generation before us has faced a decade of choices that will so profoundly impact the course of life on this planet as those we now face. And no generation before us has had the opportunity to enrich the future so vastly. By Eban Goodstein Generation Face Faced Decade Choices

What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations ... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts. By Hannah Arendt Act Action Efforts Distinguishes Countries

Lust is the cause of generation. By Leonardo Da Vinci Lust Generation

the brains of your generation. By John Green Generation Brains

The wrong-doing of one generation lives into the successive ones. By Nathaniel Hawthorne Wrongdoing Generation Lives Successive

The generation that bought the most shoes and crippled the moral footing By Dean Cavanagh Footing Generation Bought Shoes Crippled

They say greatness skips a generation, but I think that's because the generation before helps too much. By Nick Simmons Generation Greatness Skips

I've got weird conflicting feelings about my generation. By Adam Driver Generation Weird Conflicting Feelings

My generation is now the door to memory. That is why I am remembering. By Joy Harjo Memory Generation Door Remembering

Generations are as the days of toilsome mankind; death and birth are the vesper and the matin bells that summon mankind to sleep and to rise refreshed for new advancement. What the father has made, the son can make and enjoy; but has also work of his own appointed him. Thus all things wax and roll onwards: arts, establishments, opinions, nothing is ever completed, but ever completing. By Thomas Carlyle Mankind Generations Death Advancement Days

Each generation supposes that the world was simpler for the one before it. By Eleanor Roosevelt Generation Supposes World Simpler

The nature of human beings never changes; it is immutable. The present generation of children and the present generation of young adults from the age of thirteen to eighteen is, therefore, no different from that of their great-great-grandparents. Political fads come and go; theories rise and fall; the scientific By Taylor Caldwell Immutable Present Generation Nature Human

My father's generation gave to my generation a land of wealth and purpose and world economic dominance. By Paul Tsongas Dominance Generation Father Gave Land

Every generation, no matter how paltry its character, thinks itself much wiser than the one immediately preceding it, let alone those that are more remote. By Arthur Schopenhauer Generation Character Remote Matter Paltry

What happened when there was no prospect of anything beyond this generation? What happened when... By Anne Corlett Happened Generation Prospect

Each generation exercises power over its successors: and each, in so far as it modifies the environment bequeathed to it and rebels against tradition, resists and limits the power of its predecessors. By C.s. Lewis Power Successors Tradition Resists Predecessors

We must produce a great age, or see the collapse of the upward striving of our race. By Alfred North Whitehead Age Race Produce Great Collapse

My generation failed to change the world, but at least I did not let the world change me. By Chronis Missios World Change Generation Failed

First it was "The Silent Generation", then "Generation Boomers", then "Generation X", then "Generation Y" and as last "Generation Z". By Deyth Banger Generation Boomers Silent

Only a generation of readers will spawn a generation of writers. By Steven Spielberg Generation Writers Readers Spawn

The generation is unceasing. Beauty, as both Plato's Symposium and everyday life confirm, prompts the begetting of children: when the eye sees someone beautiful, the whole body wants to reproduce the person. By Elaine Scarry Unceasing Generation Beauty Plato Symposium

The next generation will always surpass the previous one. It's one of the never-ending cycles in life. By Masashi Kishimoto Generation Surpass Previous Life Neverending

You can take as much as you can from the generation that has preceded you, but then it's up to you to make something new. By Jackson Browne Generation Preceded Make

We have multi-generations coming to our show. By Ed Robertson Show Multigenerations Coming

The nation is burdened with the heavy curse on those who come afterwards. The generation before us was inspired by an activism and a naive enthusiasm, which we cannot rekindle, because we confront tasks of a different kind from those which our fathers faced. By Max Weber Nation Burdened Heavy Curse Enthusiasm

When three generations are present in a family, one of them is bound to be revolutionary. By Elise M. Boulding Family Revolutionary Generations Present Bound

Hardly any generation wants to take the whole of the last generation, it just wants to take its best bits. By Ninette De Valois Bits Generation

The late Mr. David Hume, in his posthumous works, places the powers of generation much above those of our boasted reason; and adds, that reason can only make a machine, as a clock or a ship, but the power of generation makes the maker of the machine; ... he concludes, that the world itself might have been generated, rather than created ; that is, it might have been gradually produced from very small beginnings, increasing by the activity of its inherent principles, rather than by a sudden evolution of the whole by the Almighty fiat. By Erasmus Darwin Machine Generation Hume Reason David

What essence is to generation, that truth is to belief. By Plato Generation Belief Essence Truth

Every generation must recognize and embrace the task it is peculiarly designed by history and by providence to perform. By Chinua Achebe Perform Generation Recognize Embrace Task

The older generations have eaten the future of the younger ones. By Giuliano Amato Older Generations Eaten Future Younger

Every new generation in its hour of dawn, filled with the dreams of youth, its thirsts, intoxications and enthusiasms, thinks itself called upon to impel humanity towards heights unmeasured, believes itself an appointed pathfinder, a thinker of thoughts, a doer of deeds greater than any of those which came before. Every new generation desires beauty, but a beauty all its own. By Ignacy Jan Paderewski Generation Dawn Filled Youth Thirsts

A generation comes and a generation goes, but the earth remains forever (Eccl. 1:4). By Michael T. Santini Eccl Generation Forever Earth Remains

The most-praised generation goes to work By Jeffrey Zaslow Work Mostpraised Generation

We are enmeshed in a lineage that came from somewhere and is going to make way for the next generation. By Leon Kass Generation Enmeshed Lineage Make

All technological change is generational change. By Nicholas Carr Change Technological Generational

That which is truly human no generation learns from the one before it. No generation learns from another how to love. No generation has a shorter task assigned to it except insofar as the previous generation shirked its task and deluded itself. By Soren Kierkegaard Generation Learns Human Task Love

Each generation has something different at which they are all looking. By Gertrude Stein Generation

Nothing changes from one generation to another except the things seen and the things seen make that generation, that is to say nothing changes in people from one generation to another except the way of seeing and being seen. By Gertrude Stein Generation Things Make People

He who lives to see two or three generations is like a man who sits some time in the conjurer's booth at a fair, and witnesses the performance twice or thrice in succession. The tricks were meant to be seen only once; and when they are no longer a novelty and cease to deceive, their effect is gone. By Arthur Schopenhauer Fair Succession Lives Generations Man

From generation to generation, lights are extinguished and darkness threatens until some one stoops to bear the torch. By Laurence Overmire Lights Torch Generation Extinguished Darkness

The thing that makes my generation The Greatest is our ability to hang out. We're spectacular at it. If you take somebody from my generation and sit them on a couch and bring them food and plumbing, they'll sit there and talk to you about anything you want until the day you die. By Lewis Black Greatest Generation Thing Makes Ability

It is the generation of the unemphatic. Steal, kill, lie, fornicate, but beware of indulging with conviction. By Beryl Bainbridge Unemphatic Steal Kill Lie Fornicate

The mistakes of one generation build upon the mistakes of the next and you get a society that no one really wanted. By Rysa Walker Mistakes Wanted Generation Build Society

No other generation but ours can evangelize the present generation. By John Mott Generation Evangelize Present

The men and women of my generation are heirs to that great collective success which has been admired worldwide and of which we are so proud. It is now up to us to pass it on to the coming generations. By King Felipe Vi Proud Men Women Heirs Great

We often hear about stepping outside ourselves, but rarely about stepping outside our generation. By Criss Jami Stepping Generation Hear Rarely

Any given generation gives the next generation advice that the given generation should have been given by the previous generation but now it's too late. By Roy Blount Jr. Generation Late Advice Previous

Generations will soon come into their power feeling differently about themselves than we do now, and in their re-enchanted world, they will wonder about us and what we did to their world, and what we thought we were doing. By James Howard Kunstler World Generations Power Feeling Differently

So what are we given? We're also given, my generation, the disillusionment of our parents. By Jewel Generation Parents Disillusionment

True success comes only when every generation continues to develop the next generation. By John C. Maxwell True Generation Success Continues Develop

The open-minded pursuit of an educated life has the power to slay generational ignorance By Simon Boylan Ignorance Openminded Pursuit Educated Life

Every generation inherits a world it never made; and, as it does so, it automatically becomes the trustee of that world for those who come after. In due course, each generation makes its own accounting to its children. By Robert Kennedy World Made Generation Inherits Automatically

Our generation has the ability and the responsibility to make our ever-more connected world a more hopeful, stable and peaceful place. By Natalie Portman Hopeful Stable Place Generation Ability

Every generation that comes from this family has to do better than the last. By Tinie Tempah Generation Family

The neglect of a generation is regeneration so every soul may become its own history, not the incessant anxiety of unnaturally imposed lessons, a plague of its own making. By Dew Platt History Lessons Making Neglect Generation

I'm an older generation. By Martin Scorsese Generation Older

I have the impression that the new generation of young people, are coming up on the scene with a sense "ancestorhood", and with more wisdom than was evident before. By Jonas Salk Ancestorhood People Sense Impression Generation

We are the last generation of humans on Earth! By Bill Gaede Earth Generation Humans

My generation had to be taken seriously because we were stopping things and burning things. We were able to initiate change, because we had such vast numbers. We were part of the baby boom, and when we moved, everything moved with us. By John Hughes Things Generation Stopping Burning Moved

I come from a long line of generations! By Charles M. Schulz Generations Long Line

I suppose every generation has a conceit of itself which elevates it, in its own opinion, above that which comes after it. ("The Open Door") By Mrs. Oliphant Opinion Door Suppose Generation Conceit

This generation may either be the last to exist in any semblance of a civilised world or that it will be the first to have the vision, the bearing and the greatness to say, 'I will have nothing to do with this destruction of life, I will play no part in this devastation of the land, I am determined to live and work for peaceful construction for I am morally responsible for the world of today and the generations of tomorrow.' By Richard St. Barbe Baker World Vision Life Land Tomorrow

My generation were diners stuffing ourselves senseless at the Restaurant of the Earth's Riches knowing - while denying - that we'd be doing a runner and leaving our grandchildren a tab that can never be paid. By David Mitchell Restaurant Earth Riches Knowing Denying

Tell me what are the prevailing sentiments that occupy the minds of your young peoples, and I will tell you what is to be the character of the next generation. By Edmund Burke Peoples Generation Prevailing Sentiments Occupy

It is, I believe, the greatest generation any society has ever produced. By Tom Brokaw Produced Greatest Generation Society

Each generation wants new symbols, new people, new names. They want to divorce themselves from their predecessors. By Jim Morrison Symbols People Generation Predecessors Divorce

we members of one of its final generations should devote some time to answering one last question: By Yuval Noah Harari Question Members Final Generations Devote

Serving my generation with excellence will mean my generation can in turn lead with excellence. By Onyi Anyado Generation Excellence Serving Turn Lead

Each generation must go further than the last or what's the use in it? By Meridel Le Sueur Generation

Discussions of generations only go downhill. There's no point in having them. By Douglas Coupland Discussions Downhill Generations Point

Each generation must discover its mission, fulfill it or betray it, in relative opacity. By Frantz Fanon Mission Fulfill Opacity Generation Discover

The resource of generational history is accorded little attention our society, which seems ever more obsessed with making "new" and "better" synonymous. From my family I became aware of the importance of passing along wisdom from one generation to the next. Yet despite the increasing proliferation of digital recording and other communication technologies, we're passing on less knowledge today than our parents did through the oral tradition alone. We're drowning in photographs and videos, capturing every mundane moment of our birthdays, holidays, and vacations. Yet these can be no more than pleasant distraction, only scratching the surface of our real relationships. By Ralph Nader Synonymous Society Making Resource Generational

I think my generation is a lost generation in a way. By Nico Muhly Generation Lost

Every generation feels it has the problems that will destroy it. That's because we can perceive them a long time before we have the ability to fix them. By Peter Diamandis Generation Feels Problems Destroy Perceive

The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity. By Benjamin Disraeli Youth Nation Posterity Trustees

One generation abandons the enterprises of another like stranded vessels. By Henry David Thoreau Vessels Generation Abandons Enterprises Stranded

Hence, too, might be drawn a weighty lesson from the little-regarded truth, that the act of the passing generation is the germ which may and must produce good or evil fruit in a far-distant time; that, together with the seed of the merely temporary crop, which mortals term expediency, they inevitably sow the acorns of a more enduring growth, which may darkly overshadow their posterity. The By Nathaniel Hawthorne Truth Time Crop Expediency Growth

I'm trying to influence the next generation or two generations or three generations behind me. That's a big ambition of mine. By James Frey Generations Influence Mine Big Ambition

For with but one generation, History and truth are lost forever. By Mary E. Pearson History Generation Forever Truth Lost

New generations have unprecedented power to make great changes. Take the music business for example. The new generations have toppled the music industry by file sharing, downloading, and Myspace. Rock 'n' roll belongs to the people. By Patti Smith Generations Unprecedented Power Make Great

Each generation has been an education for us in different ways. The first child-with-bloody-nose was rushed to the emergency room. The fifth child-with-bloody-nose was told to go to the yard immediately and stop bleeding on the carpet. By Art Linkletter Generation Education Room Rushed Emergency

Every generation of children offers mankind the possibility of rebuilding his ruin of a world. By Eglantyne Jebb World Generation Children Offers Mankind

Life on earth may be limited, but grandchildren were the promise of the eternal. By Nancy Thayer Life Limited Eternal Earth Grandchildren

Oh you, my generation!- we were a lovely lot! Sharp minds- arguing all the time and brittle bodies and even more brittle laughter- and all the time knowing that we were growing up to die. By Joan Wehlen Morrison Generation Lot Lovely Time Brittle

It takes a society to raise a generation. By David Berman Generation Society Raise

My generation were all careerists. By Zaha Hadid Careerists Generation

My generation will actually be the first generation that is tamer than the one that came before it, and it will probably be poorer; less fun and less money. By Shia Labeouf Poorer Money Generation Tamer Fun

One of the things that I am learning is that each generation will have its own negotiations with identity. And one generation can not necessarily help the other generation with it. By Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Identity Generation Things Learning Negotiations

Every generation proclaims that each must lead his own life, but seldom grants the subsequent generation the right to lead theirs. By Faith Baldwin Life Generation Lead Proclaims Seldom

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Today however, a new generation must arise that will take their works further. This generation must rely less on signs and wonders, but rely more on developing skills and building industries. By Sunday Adelaja Today Generation Arise Works Rely

Each generation goes further than the generation preceding it because it stands on the shoulders of that generation. You will have opportunities beyond anything we've ever known. By Ronald Reagan Generation Preceding Stands Shoulders Opportunities

We are truly defined by what we pass on to the next generation. By Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha Generation Defined Pass

For mankind as a whole, a possession infinitely more valuable than individual life is our genetic heritage, our link with past and future ... Yet genetic deterioration through man-made agents is the menace of our time ... By Rachel Carson Heritage Future Genetic Mankind Possession

What our Seventh Generation will have is a consequence of our actions today. By Winona Laduke Seventh Generation Today Consequence Actions

The previous generation paved the way for my generation to gallop unheeded into jobs previously reserved for men. By Beeban Kidron Men Generation Previous Paved Gallop

The younger generation will come knocking at my door. By Henrik Ibsen Door Younger Generation Knocking

Into every generation comes a vampire. By Holly Black Vampire Generation

If there is any responsibility in the cycle of life it must be that one generation owes to the next that strength by which it can come to face ultimate concerns in its own way. By Erik Erikson Responsibility Cycle Life Generation Owes