Generations Quotes - Page 28

The stone which Jacob consecrated at Bethel the generation of the living continues to anoint, paying the tithes which of old he vowed to the house of God there.

Sometimes the serpent is represented as a circle eating its own tail. That’s an image of life. Life sheds one generation after another, to be born again. The serpent represents immortal energy and consciousness engaged in the field of time, constantly throwing off death and being born again. There is something tremendously terrifying about life when you look at it that way. And so the serpent carries in itself the sense of both the fascination and the terror of life.

I wanna be a part of the generation that throws out money, throws out time, throws out all that we are against something bigger than ourselves.

If we intend to provide a better life, and a better world, for future generations, we can't ignore the quality of the environment we leave them.

On Earth Day, we celebrate all the gifts the world and nature make available to us. We recognize our complete dependence on its bounty. And we acknowledge the need for good stewardship to preserve its fruits for future generations.

A writer ... whittles at the words and phrases of today and makes of them forms to set the mind of tomorrow's generation.

We all stand on the shoulders of the past generation.

Folklore used to be passed by word of mouth, from one generation to the next; thats what makes it folklore, as opposed to, say, history, which is written down and stored in an archive.

I like to do theater and hopefully be effective. Most actors, at least contemporary actors of my generation, can't do it. They don't have the chops.

I've always said if somebody wrote a book and they took their whole life to learn that knowledge in that book, why you won't just read that book to learn what they know? I have never seen anyone take a book combining Faith, personal Development and life stories that are just so practical and relatable to our own generation.

The Don Quixote of one generation may live to hear himself called the savior of society by the next.

Corporate tax dodging impacts us across generations and over time. It is corrosive. It is unethical. It is unsustainable.

We have a great responsibility. Whatever we make will become the truth, the visual reality that a generation will accept.

The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavour. The beauty endures. A work of art lives...through the generations and centuries.

One of the things I want to do as an artist is to connect generations.

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

It was the hubris of each generation to think this anew, to think that their time was special, that all things would come to an end with them.

The contemporary Japanese directors who are well-known in the West - say, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Takeshi Kitano, Naomi Kawase - are mostly unknown to Japanese, particularly of the younger generation.

Each new generation is a fresh invasion of savages.

Music has been in our family for generations.

If we care about the children, the grandchildren, the future generations, we need to make sure that they do not become the cannon fodder of the future.

No single crisis shapes a generation; but a succession of events, each one bringing its shaping blows to bear.

What would happen if even one generation were raised with respect and without violence?

The older generations have eaten the future of the younger ones.

From the proletarians nothing is to be feared. Left to themselves, they will continue from generation to generation and from century to century, working, breeding, and dying, not only without any impulse to rebel, but without the power of grasping that the world could be other than it is.