Generations Quotes - Page 55

After days and nights of incredible labor and fatigue, I succeeded in discovering the cause of generation and life. Nay, more, I became myself capable of bestowing animation upon lifeless matter.

When you save a girl, you save generations

Southerners have been known to stay over the Fourth and not get home before Thanksgiving. Some oldtimers take in overnight guests and keep them through three generations.

We all grow on somebody's grave.

Art is how a culture records its life, how it poses questions for the next generation and how it will be remembered.

Mr. Bush is flaky, incompetent, and the most dangerous American president in a generation.

I am really touched and surprised that your generation [of millenials] feels that way, and I'm really happy the work stands up. But that show [Seinfeld] is going to stand up for all time: it's one of the greatest things that has ever been written, and still speaks to the quirks of being a human being no matter what the era.

My story has been the story of my generation.

I do think that every generation has its unique story.

Everyone archetypally is a parent to future generations.

Generation after generation can't just be loaded with more and more nuclear weapons and not ultimately dance to that music.

I had an experience that probably is shared by many parents. When my daughter was born, I felt viscerally connected to generations before and after me in a way that took me by surprise.

I love his music because he was my generation. But then again, Elvis is everyone's generation, and he always will be.

No generation has a free hold on this earth. All we have is a life tenancy-with a full repairing lease.

every generation has a conceit of itself which elevates it, in its own opinion, above that which comes after it.

We know of no culture that has said, articulately, that there is no difference between men and women except in the way they contribute to the creation of the next generation.

I am living with a rising generation which talks like people coming out of ether.

It was a wise and useful provision of the ancients to transmit their thoughts to posterity by recording them in treatises, so that they should not be lost, but, being developed in succeeding generations through publications in books, should gradually attain in later times, to the highest refinement of learning.

Over many generations, fortunes in the business world were made through buying and selling products in physical stores. Internet fortunes have been made buying and selling products online.

It is a third generation anti-Semitism. First it was religious in nature. Today, the Jewish state is attacked and that is the new anti-Semitism. What they have in common is that in all versions, Jews are seen as absolute evil.

Ensuring a healthy future means investing in the generation who will carry that future.

I did go to Wellesley, a women's college. And I am of a kind of strange generation which is transitional in terms of women who wanted to go out and get jobs.

So there really was a whole series of things that took the women of my generation a little bit of time to push forward.

If you narrow the playing field, the next generation has less to put out, to eat and regenerate from.

If we become tow people-the suburban affluent and the urban poor, each filled with mistrust and fear of the other-then we shall effectively cripple each generation to come.