Generations Quotes - Page 38

The importation of foreigners into a country that has as many inhabitants as the present employments and provisions for subsistence will bear, will be in the end no increase of people, unless the new comers have more industry and frugality than the natives, and then they will provide more subsistence, and increase in the country; but they will gradually eat the natives out. Nor is it necessary to bring in foreigners to fill up any occasional vacancy in a country for such vacancy will soon be filled by natural generation.

No challenge poses a greater threat to future generations than climate change.

I refuse to condemn your generation and future generations to a planet that's beyond fixing.

We are the first generation of human beings to have substantial insights into the origin of our cosmos and of human life in it.

The Régime did not want Communists; it wanted robots. It will take at least a generation to change them back into humans again.

Speakers are not supposed to waste time on platitudes, but the capacity of this generation for ignoring the obvious and concentrating on the negative and the obscure is immense.

There's a general intuition around the nonprofit world these days that younger generations are less likely to join. But I have found in my research that that's quite wrong.

Love, like a carefully loaded ship, crosses the gulf between the generations.

And I was shocked, To see the mistakes of each generation, Will just fade like a radio station, If you drive out of range...

The previous generation, such as Alec Stewart and Nasser Hussain, lost to Australia on many occasions.

I hope I can make a show that will inspire a whole other generation of young women and girls to say, "I can do a show like that."

The older generation sat looking at the younger, and Kat wondered exactly when and how the baton had been passed. She wanted to know if it was too late to give it back.

Sometimes, reading a blog, which I do infrequently, I see that generations of Americans have been wilfully crippled, and can no longer spell or write a sentence.

Sometimes in the history of art it is possible to describe a period or a generation of artists as having been obsessed by a particular problem.

Amongst democratic nations, each new generation is a new people.

Generations to come will scarce believe that such a one as this ever in flesh and blood walked upon this earth. (said of Mahatma Gandhi)

Today's younger generation is no worse than my own. We were just as ignorant and repulsive as they are, but nobody listened to us.

One has to nurture a new generation, to raise children in the spirit of Islam.

The visible universe is subject to quantification, and is so by necessity. … Between you and me only reason will be the judge … since you proceed according to the rational method, so shall I. … I will also give reason and take it. … This generation has an innate vice. It can’t accept anything that has been discovered by a contemporary!

I'm actually the fourth generation in my family to have no practical use for the church, or God, or religion. My children continue this trend.

I wonder whether any other generation has seen such astounding revolutions of data and values as those through which we have lived. Scarcely anything material or established which I was brought up to believe was permanent and vital, has lasted. Everything I was sure or taught to be sure was impossible, has happened.

Their manners are more gentle, kind, than of Our human generation you shall find.

You have the older generation like Iris Murdoch and Angus Wilson who are not as old as Graham Greene, but still are coming on. I dare say anyone who knew the scene better than I know it could fill it in with a very satisfactory supply of novels.

We have to work together to do a better job than we did in the last few generations.

I have a magnificent obsession. All I want to do is change the world ...make it a better place for this and future generations.