Generations Quotes - Page 66

The Brangwens had lived for generations on the Marsh Farm, in the meadows where the Erewash twisted sluggishly through alder trees, separating Derbyshire from Nottinghamshire.

If truth is like the terrain, are we the generation who sees it as one who has worn shoes all his life or one who has never worn shoes? Yet still, even if the walk starts out as painful, the experience may be well worth it.

We often hear about stepping outside ourselves, but rarely about stepping outside our generation.

Every new generation believes its own period to be absolutely superior intellectually - greater than all past cultures yet equal among its modern cultures.

The Internet was full of sites producing content for free, in the hope that somehow they'd generate revenue from sources that never materialized, whether it was advertising, subscriptions, or a wing and a prayer.

Each generation of rabbis is necessarily less perfect than the rabbis that came before, since each generation is more removed from the perfection of the Garden. Therefore, no rabbi is allowed to overturn any of his forebears' wisdom, since they are all, by definition, smarter than him.

Drew Dellinger is one of the most creative, courageous and prophetic poets of his generation. I love his spirit. Don't miss him!

Sometimes to think about why some institutions are stable, it's interesting to go one generation back and look at the author of that stability.

History should be about every generation's will to power.

You want to teach the next generation so they can learn a little bit faster and a little bit more so everything becomes that much better.

The chain of life runs smoothly from one generation to the next and none of the links stand out except here and there a link one sees by accident.

When a technology, regardless of how different and difficult it is, sustains the trajectory of performance improvement, my research asserts that the leaders in the prior generation of technology are likely to end up on top of their industry at the end of the transition.

It is our misfortune, as a historical generation, to live through the largest expansion in expressive capability in human history, a misfortune because abundance breaks more things than scarcity.

The poets of each generation seldom sing a new song. They turn to themes men always have loved, and sing them in the mode of their times.

For how many generations now had his people been turning their backs on things? How long had they sat in their living rooms and watched other people die?

That which the enemy meant to destroy through trafficking, I will raise up as an unstoppable army in the days ahead, for that generation will be My generation! I call you, 'My Army that is Unstoppable!' I call you, 'My Kingdom Swarm,' and you shall invade the kingdoms of the earth.

Katherine Kenton remains among the generation of women who feel that the most sincere form of flattery is the male erection.

Every generation is more influenced by technology, which is always changing faster.

We're the first generation that doesn't need to be afraid of the media. We will become the media

Honestly, in retrospect, I would wish for future generations to have the ability to have a coming out process that was less alcohol-soaked than mine was.

The amazing fact is that America is founded on a document. It's a work in progress. It can be tested by each generation.

Unless a reincarnationist is willing to say there was a 'first generation' of souls created with the first humans, he is exposed to absurdity by the recency of human life on the planet.

We lost so many talented artists and writers from the generations before ours that we're really lacking older figureheads.

I took on the sins of everybody, of a generation, really.

It's really vital to have rock music because it connects the generations. It's important in that way.