Generations Quotes - Page 27

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.

Friction and misunderstandings often occur when communicating across generations. It gets even more challenging when working across virtual settings.

My sister and my brother, of whom I have not spoken before, were considerably older than I; it seemed almost as if we belonged to different generations.

People try to put us down (Talkin' 'bout my generation) Just because we get around (Talkin' 'bout my generation) Things they do look awful c-c-cold (Talkin' 'bout my generation) Hope I die before I get old.

I think we've all had enough of Coltrane saxophonists. There's a case of someone ruining a generation of saxophonists, as Louis Armstrong may have ruined a generation of trumpeters.

As patients and consumers, we are better informed today about our health care than any previous generation.

Remorse is extremely useful for a generation which has in fact dirtied its hands but for the next generation you cannot ask, for instance, young Germans today to feel guilty about Hitlerism.

I would vote against raising the national debt ceiling. Again, this is about mortgaging the future of unborn generations of Americans. It's a form of taxation without representation. I don't think we can do that.

America was built by immigrants. Almost nobody that I know is any more than three generations, maybe four generations, American.

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

The next generation will always surpass the previous one. It's one of the never-ending cycles in life.

There is no greater gift to future generations than that we do the work God has asked us to do: love one another, that the world might be made right.

History should not be written to make the present generation feel good but to remind us that human affairs are complicated.

I know of no system other than Hinduism under which a class has been set apart from generation to generation for the exclusive pursuit of divine knowledge and consigned to voluntary poverty.

Neither a garden nor a gardener can be made in one year, nor in one generation even.

Thus the sum of things is ever being reviewed, and mortals dependent one upon another. Some nations increase, others diminish, and in a short space the generations of living creatures are changed and like runners pass on the torch of life.

The choice is ours-yours and mine. We can stay with business as usual and preside over a global bubble economy that keeps expanding until it bursts, leading to economic decline. Or we can adopt Plan B and be the generation that stabilizes population, eradicates poverty, and stabilizes climate. Historians will record the choice, but it is ours to make.

The fathers who contrived and passed the Consititution were wise in their generation; as time passes, we come more and more to realize their powers of divination.

All around us are the consequences of the most significant technological, and hence cultural, revolution in generations.

I think I'm part of a generation of crime writers all of whom woke up independently and recoiled with horror at the fact that we'd chosen this very conservative genre.

It's hard to compare actors from different generations.

When the generation after me started getting on the cut, a lot of them would call me over to hang out or go jam and scratch and they were always separate from each other.

Each time we plant a seed, we become ancestors for the generations to come.

The information that is passed from person to person and from generation to generation is the primary factor that gives humans a competitive advantage over other animals.

The traditions of the dead generations weigh like a nightmare upon the living.