Generations Quotes - Page 9

This society in which we live is radically changing. What previous generations saw as evil is now embraced as being good. It is a dangerous and slippery slope upon which we stand when we reject what Solomon called the beginning of wisdom - the fear of God.

My mind-set is Munich. Most of my generation's is Vietnam.

Each generation of the church in each setting has the responsibility of communicating the gospel in understandable terms, considering the language and thought-forms of that setting.

Science is the one human activity that is truly progressive. The body of positive knowledge is transmitted from generation to generation.

Books should be cherished, like children, books are for the next generation, like children, like history.

The case for freedom, the case for our constitutional principles the case for our heritage has to be made anew in each generation. The work of freedom is never done.

My generation has the opportunity to change the world.

There's something really cool about scaring children. Traumatize a generation, that's what it's all about.

We must look to the rising generation for the restoration of the country.

Ancient and oriental civilizations were more sensitive than we are to the cycles of things; to the succession of generations, both divine and human; and to change within stasis. Western man is virtually alone in wanting to make his God into a fortress and personal immortality into a bulwark against time.

Have you stopped seeing great things happen in your life? Perhaps you have stopped believing that God can work in a mighty way even in our generation.

The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure - if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to the generation which says if you don't like it, you don't understand and you ought to find out.

Michael Jackson was not an artist who comes along once in a decade, a generation, or a lifetime. He was an artist who comes along only once, period… He raised the bar and then BROKE the bar!

Concerning the generation of animals akin to them, as hornets and wasps, the facts in all cases are similar to a certain extent, but are devoid of the extraordinary features which characterize bees; this we should expect, for they have nothing divine about them as the bees have.

From education by the Church to education by Germanic value is a step of several generations.

There is nothing I'm any more passionate than empowering the next generation.

May future generations look back on our work and say that these were men and women who, in a moment of great crisis, stood up to their politicians, the opinion-makers, and the establishment, and saved their country.

Because of the increasing rates of obesity, unhealthy eating habits and physical inactivity, we may see the first generation that will be less healthy and have a shorter life expectancy than their parents.

I want to see the glory of God invade this generation.

There is nothing more sad or glorious than generations changing hands.

The younger generation is supposed to rage against the machine, not for it. They're supposed to question authority, not question those who question authority.

I have no influence with the rising generation. All my arguments have failed to induce them to set bounds to their wants.

The environmental crisis is somber evidence of an insidious fraud hidden in the vaunted productivity and wealth of modern, technology-based society. This wealth has been gained by rapid short-term exploitation of the environmental system, but it has blindly accumulated a debt to nature-a debt so large and so pervasive that in the next generation it may, if unpaid, wipe out most of the wealth it has gained us.

We will respond to the threat of climate change, knowing that the failure to do so would betray our children and future generations

We think it is complicated to change the world. Change comes little by little. Nothing worthwhile can happen in one generation.