Generations Quotes

• Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.

  George Orwell

  Badass, Intelligent, Imagination

  George Orwell (1986). “The complete works of George Orwell”

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• Children sweeten labours. But they make misfortune more bitter. They increase the care of life. But they mitigate the remembrance of death. The perpetuity of generation is common to beasts. But memory, merit and noble works are proper to men. And surely a man shall see the noblest works and foundations have proceeded from childless men which have sought to express the images of their minds where those of their bodies have failed.

  Francis Bacon

  Children, Memories, Men

  Francis Bacon (1826). “The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban and Lord High Chancellor of England: Sylva sylvarum (century IX-X) Physiological remains. Medical remains. Medical receipts. Works moral: Colours of good and evil. Essays of counsels civil and moral. Theological works”, p.258

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• History is not, of course, a cookbook offering pretested recipes. It teaches by analogy, not by maxims. It can illuminate the consequences of actions in comparable situations, yet each generation must discover for itself what situations are in fact comparable.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Offering, Analogies, Recipes

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• We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.

  John F. Kennedy

  Historical, Experience, World

  Final Address to the United Nations General Assembly, delivered 20 September 1963, New York, NY

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• The future belongs to those who give the next generation reason for hope.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Faith, Hope, Future

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• We need to remember across generations that there is as much to learn as there is to teach.

  Gloria Steinem

  Reality, Needs, Remember

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  The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.

  William James

  Life, Change, Positive

  "Living the Abundant Life". Book by Thomas S. Monson, 2004.

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  The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.

  William James

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn't have anything to do with it.

  Haim Ginott

  Happy Mothers Day, Children, Parenting

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• If you look deeply into the palm of your hand, you will see your parents and all generations of your ancestors. All of them are alive in this moment. Each is present in your body. You are the continuation of each of these people.

  Nhat Hanh

  Life, Family, Spiritual

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “Present Moment Wonderful Moment: Mindfulness Verses for Daily Living: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.80, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The glory of each generation is to make its own precedents.

  Belva Ann Lockwood

  Glory, Precedent, Ancestor

  Speech to National Convention of Woman Suffrage Association,Washington, D.C., 16 - 17 Jan. 1877

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• Each generation goes further than the generation preceding it because it stands on the shoulders of that generation. You will have opportunities beyond anything we've ever known.

  Ronald Reagan

  Opportunity, Presidential, Politics

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• One of the things I want to do as an artist is to connect generations.

  Isaac Hanson

  Artist, Want, Artistic

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• Our fathers had their dreams; we have ours; the generation that follows will have its own. Without dreams and phantoms man cannot exist.

  Olive Schreiner

  Fathers Day, Dream, Men

  Olive Schreiner (2009). “The Story of an African Farm”, p.455, The Floating Press

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• In Iroquois society, leaders are encouraged to remember seven generations in the past and consider seven generations in the future when making decisions that affect the people.

  Wilma Mankiller

  Women, Past, People

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• We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority, to bind themselves, but none to bind the succeeding generation, more than the inhabitants of another country.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Country, Majority, May

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, correspondence and private papers of Thomas Jefferson, ed. by T.J. Randolph”

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• Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans - born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace.

  John F. Kennedy

  Peace, War, Torches

  Inaugural Address, 20 Jan. 1961

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• A generation which ignores history has no past — and no future.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Future, Past, History

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.223, Penguin

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• What one generation sees as a luxury, the next sees as a necessity.

  Anthony Crosland

  Luxury, Next

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• Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.

  Khalil Gibran

  Equality, And Love, Woe

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• Future generations are not going to ask us what political party were you in. They are going to ask what did you do about it, when you knew the glaciers were melting.

  Martin Sheen

  Party, Political, Environmental

  Interview with David Kupfer, progressive.org. July 1, 2003.

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• The nation is a community. Community of individuals, community of generations.

  Aleksander Kwasniewski

  Communication, Community, Individual

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• From the earliest time the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Aging, Nonsense, Young

  Cakes and Ale ch. 11 (1930)

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• Parents who wonder where the younger generation is going should remember where it came from.

  Sam Ewing

  Young Generation, Parent, Remember

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• It is up to us to live up to the legacy that was left for us, and to leave a legacy that is worthy of our children and of future generations.

  Christine Gregoire

  Children, Feminist, Legacy

  Christine Gregoire's Inaugural Speech in Olympia, Washington, awpc.cattcenter.iastate.edu. January 12, 2005.

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