Generation Quotes - page 3

A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it. (Max Planck)
Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation. View quote
Noam Chomsky
The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
I couldn't live with myself if I thought that these big strategic choices for my generation were there, and I wasn't even making them – or I was making them according to what was expedient rather than what I actually thought was right. View quote
Tony Blair
Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same. View quote
Ronald Reagan
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. View quote
Ronald Reagan
He plants trees to benefit another generation. View quote
Caecilius Statius
The next generation will always surpass the previous one. It's one of the never-ending cycles in life. View quote
Masashi Kishimoto
The generation that had information, but no context. Butter, but no bread. Craving, but no longing. View quote
Meg Wolitzer
Nothing in the reporting of a nation's history could so mislead the younger generation as to represent great events in such a way that they appear to have happened as a matter of course. View quote
Gustav Stresemann
Wherever you are, design your life. Live the values of your generation. (Don Tapscott)
With Star Wars fans, there's so much enthusiasm, and it's a completely different generation now. View quote
Peter Mayhew
It is, I believe, the greatest generation any society has ever produced. View quote
Tom Brokaw
And I know that the younger generation is doing things that are so ingenious. And for them it's not a matter of a political belief or an environmental stance. It's really just common sense. View quote
Daryl Hannah
Leadership requires the courage to make decisions that will benefit the next generation. View quote
Alan Autry
When today's generation reads Jack's books or they listen to the music created by some of us, I believe that they see there is a different way of approaching today's life and today's sometimes seeming hopelessness that can provide answers. View quote
David Amram
Is the minor convenience of allowing the present generation the luxury of doubling its energy consumption every 10 years worth the major hazard of exposing the next 20,000 generations to this lethal waste? View quote
David R. Brower
Most of the suicide hijackers came from Saudi Arabia, a place not lacking in wealth. But due to rapid population growth, the wealth per capita has fallen by about half in a generation. View quote
Keith Henson
I want kids of this generation to see that everything is cool, that there's some kind of unity in hip-hop. We all found something that's really important to us, and music is all we've really got. View quote
Missy Elliott
Our fathers had their dreams; we have ours; the generation that follows will have its own. Without dreams and phantoms man cannot exist. View quote
Olive Schreiner
Most of my friends between 21 and 31 are at different stages of figuring out what the hell they are going to do with their lives. It's a big part of our generation. What is the next step? (Orlando Jones)
The forces that are in play on climate change essentially revolve around the generation of power, the transportation of goods and services and people, and the sorts of materials that we use to fuel the whole of our civilisation. View quote
Peter Garrett
Married people from my generation are like an endangered species! View quote
Patrice Leconte
This generation has given up on growth. They're just hoping for survival. View quote
Penelope Spheeris
This generation should entertain this generation. It's only fair. When I was a kid, I mowed the lawn. Now, somebody else's kid can mow the lawn. View quote
Tom T. Hall
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