Generations Quotes - Page 3

Language is the most massive and inclusive art we know, a mountainous and anonymous work of unconscious generations.

From woman, man is born; within woman, man is conceived; to woman he is engaged and married. Woman becomes his friend; through woman, the future generations come. When his woman dies, he seeks another woman; to woman he is bound. So why call her bad? From her, kings are born. From woman, woman is born; without woman, there would be no one at all.

Three generations of imbeciles are enough.

The so-called Beat Generation was a whole bunch of people, of all different nationalities, who came to the conclusion that society sucked.

Thinking in generations also means enabling our young to have a decent standard of living.

I am looking to have a place under the sun for our new generations to live in peace far away from repression, from terrorism, to live as human beings freely in this free world. That is what I am looking for. I am not asking for the moon. I am asking for the United Nations legality to be implemented.

Never before in our country's history has a generation been so empowered, so wealthy, so privileged - and yet so empty.

I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.

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.

We have taught a generation to feast and play but the times demand we fast and pray.

From Watergate we learned what generations before us have known; our Constitution works. And during Watergate years it was interpreted again so as to reaffirm that no one - absolutely no one - is above the law.

The power to mould the future of the Republic will be in the hands of the journalists of future generations.

Future generations will wonder in bemused amazement that the early 21st century's developed world went into hysterical panic over a globally averaged temperature increase of a few tenths of a degree, and, on the basis of gross exaggerations of highly uncertain computer projections combined into implausible chains of inference, proceeded to contemplate a roll-back of the industrial age.

What cannot be talked about cannot be put to rest. And if it is not, the wounds will fester from generation to generation.

Democracy has to be born anew every generation, and education is its midwife.

But probably that's the way of the world - when we have finally learned something we're too old to apply it - and so it goes, wave after wave, generation after generation. No one learns anything at all from anyone else.

Every generation of children offers mankind the possibility of rebuilding his ruin of a world.

The younger generation is vibrant with a new psychology; the new spirit is awake in the masses . . . Each generation . . . will have its creed.

No generation has a right to contract debts greater than can be paid off during the course of its own existence.

The question of the next generation will not be one of how to liberate the masses, but rather, how to make them love their servitude.

I can predict with absolute certainty that within another generation there will be another world war if the nations of the world do not concert the method by which to prevent it.

I think the amazing thing about Gospel music is that not only does it lift up the death and resurrection of our Lord, which is consistent with the Gospel, but it is uniquely communicated depending upon the generation.

Generation X is dead. It has come to mean anyone aged 13 to 55 years old.

Every generation blames the generation before them.

The Greatest Generation got to save old tires, dig a Victory Garden and forgo sugar. The Richest Generation is being asked to shop.