Generations Quotes - Page 10

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?

Everybody makes money when times are good. It's when times are not so good that the groundwork is laid for the next generation.

Women gain social influence through their roles as mothers, transmitters of culture, and parents for the next generation.

Hardly any generation wants to take the whole of the last generation, it just wants to take its best bits.

It is time for a new generation of leadership.

The creation of a world view is the work of a generation rather than of an individual, but we each of us, for better or for worse, add our brick to the edifice.

There are many women who came before me who didn't really have the same opportunities that I have had. That's why I always wanted to be a great ambassador - not only today's generation - but for the women who really didn't have a voice, but who paved the way for me.

I'm glad the Cube is reaching new generations, who face it with fresh wonder, curiosity and enthusiasm.

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.

You are the generation that will reach the sea and hoist the flag of Palestine over Tel Aviv.

Those of us who witness the degraded state of the environment and the suffering that comes with it cannot afford to be complacent. We continue to be restless. If we really carry the burden, we are driven to action. We cannot tire or give up. We owe it to the present and future generations of all species to rise up and walk!

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.

Leadership is not about the next election, it's about the next generation.

We stand on a great threshold in the human history of space exploration. If life is prevalent in our neighborhood of the galaxy, it is within our resources and technological reach to be the first generation in human history to finally cross this threshold, and to learn if there is life of any kind beyond Earth.

We cannot interfere in one area of the ecosystem without paying due attention to both the consequences of such interference in other areas and to the well-being of future generations.

Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.

In every generation there is a chosen one. She alone will stand against the vampires the demons and the forces of darkness. She is the slayer.

We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.

In the midst of a generation screaming for answers, Christians are stuttering.

Mathematical discoveries, small or great are never born of spontaneous generation.

We will preach the truth to a new generation: The doorway to all freedoms is framed with muskets. It's time the apologists step aside and let freedom's followers lead the way.

We must protect our most precious resource, our environment, for future generations.

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.

The '60s was one of the first times the power of music was used by a generation to bind them together.

Each generation must get on the same old merry-go-round, only disguised in a fresh coat of paint.