Generations Quotes - Page 46

Stories were primarily verbal to begin with. Before there were cave paintings, stories were told over generations. We tell each other thousands of stories in the course of everyday life.

They say you can't study Kabbalah until you are at least 40 years old. You know why? You have to have experienced at least one generation making the same mistakes as the previous one.

My studio is a laptop. Everybody I work with is the same. We make computer music, we're the laptop generation.

One of the greatest failures of every generation is that it refuses to read the minutes of the last meeting.

The evidence that I see around me in society indicates that not only is thinking very much out of favor, but I'm not sure that the last couple of generations - Generation X and Generation Next, or whatever you want to call them - even know what a thought is, having been raised to be women.

The fear of the never-ending onslaught of gizmos and gadgets is nothing new. The radio, the telephone, Facebook - each of these inventions changed the world. Each of them scared the heck out of an older generation. And each of them was invented by people who were in their 20s.

In every generation there is a vault-keeper, one who guards the links fiercely and knows they are more precious than rubies.

I don't think it's going to be possible for the next generation of writers to tell stories without telling stories about telling stories.

Every generation’s breakthroughs are proven false by the next generation’s Technology

Each generation of pilots hopes that they will leave their profession better off than they found it.

The immense profundity of thought in vulgar locutions, like holes dug by generations of ants.

Never trust a duck" - Will Herondale "We are bound, you and I, over the divide of death, down through whatever generations may come. Forever." - Will Herondale

Science is a collaborative enterprise, spanning the generations. When it permits us to see the far side of some new horizon, we remember those who prepared the way - seeing for them also.

He plants to benefit another generation.

I'm a fifth generation Jew from the South, and I would say that I felt this connection to my religion, but it wasn't a spiritual connection.

Would the Holy One, Blessed is he, dispense judgment without justice? But we may say that he whom God loves will be chastised. For since the day the Holy Temple was destroyed, the righteous are seized by death for the iniquities of the generation

[American Citizenship] captures the enduring idea that this country only works when we accept certain obligations to one another and to future generations

Have we forgotten about the children, and thus forsaken the next generation?

There were no formerly heroic times, and there was no formerly pure generation. There is no one here but us chickens, and so it has always been.

I'd love to be the political voice of my generation, but that's not my gift.

I'm getting more towards that point where I'm ready to kind of pass the torch on and see the next generation succeed behind me.

Broken-hearted leaders change things that go beyond their generation.

The Russian revolution did not occur until a generation after Marx's death. He was not involved with it, or with what came after it. His works do not describe post-capitalist society, and a fortiori they do not recommend any part of what the Soviet Union did.

Undefined Christianity is not a problem in our generation. It is defined Christianity that brings the rub.

O, Youth: Do you know that yours is not the first generation to yearn for a life full of beauty and freedom?