Generations Quotes - Page 62

One act of violence takes four generations to heal.

A lot of my generation are living out the un-lived lives of our mothers.

a really good play is ambiguous - which is exactly why it endures. Every succeeding generation develops theories about it. The play's words provide very little clue. On the contrary, words are notoriously imprecise and open to every kind of interpretation, so you must search.

Nature is where I feel most comfortable; it's where I find my balance. I would like my kids and all future generations to have the chance to experience nature as I did.

Any first-generation technology will. But we are looking at carbon the same way we look at every pollutant under the Clean Air Act; we look for the new technologies that are available. We recognize that these power plants are going to be around for decades.

The prophet and the quack are alike admired for a generation, and admired for the wrong reasons.

[Marxism will] in a generation or so [go] into the limbo of most heresies, but meanwhile it will have poisoned the Russian Revolution.

Each generation is converted by the saint who contradicts it most.

F. Scott Fitzgerald is the first of the last generation.

each generation has something different at which they are all looking.

A creator is so completely contemporary that he has the appearance of being ahead of his generation.

The minority of one generation is usually the majority of the next.

I'm in my 10th generation of TV critic now.

I was ruined before I got started. I say ruined, but I could say blessed; I was too far gone to believe in it. And I'm shocked how generation after generation repeats the behavior.

The most important business of one generation is the raising of the next generation. Nothing else you do in life will be as deeply satisfying.

I came to this office to solve problems, and not pass them on to future Presidents and future generations.

I come from a different generation from my Dad.

A John Updike is a once-in-a-generation phenomenon, if that generation is lucky: so comfortable in so many genres, the same lively, generous intelligence suffusing all he did.

I'm not saying "job done" but I am actually pretty confident that Britain can be one of the biggest winners from these big global changes that are taking place and indeed become the richest of the major economies in the world in this coming generation.

Preventing the new generation from changing in any deep way is what most societies require of their educators.

If we turn our heads and look away and hope that it will all disappear then they will - all of them, an entire generation of people. And we will have only history left to judge us.

You can rave about Stravinsky without the slightest risk of being classified as a lunatic by the next generation .

It is the privilege and duty of the present generation to pass on to its successors, unimpaired, the heritage of liberty bequeathed to it by the founders of the Republic.

History can't tell us. Each generation must define itself.

What we get in punk these days is the "anti-anti": Someone comes up with something, then the next generation is against that, and then the next generation is against that, and then that thing becomes a problem. There's these layers of anti-, and so many of them are just so self-serving. It's not about larger freedom.