Generations Quotes
+17The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind.
- William James
+2We need not just a new generation of leadership but a new gender of leadership.
- Bill Clinton
+1A father lives after death in his son.
- Sanskrit Proverb
+1Every writer is a writer of the generation before.
- Wilfrid Sheed
+1There have been generations and generations of farmers here. It’s a tradition.
- Lauren Fruge
+1I don’t like giving names to generations. It’s like trying to read the song title on a record that’s spinning.
- Ian Williams
+1What one generation sees as a luxury, the next sees as a necessity.
- Anthony Crosland
+1Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
- Henry David Thoreau
+1We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free of their authority.
- D. H. Lawrence
+1A politician thinks of the next election a statesman, of the next generation.
- James Freeman Clarke
+1It’s all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.
- George Bernard Shaw
+1Problems reproduce themselves from generation to generation. I refer to this as a ‘cycle of deprivation’.
- Sir Keith Joseph
+1Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
- Henry David Thoreau
+1There is a whole generation of people who are going to see movies or watch TV who don’t want to work.
- Bill Sienkiewicz
+1Every generation is obsessed with the decade before they were born.
- Fiona Shaw
+1Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.
- Ronald Reagan
+1The older generation thought nothing of getting up at five every morning – and the younger generation doesn’t think much of it either.
- John J. Welsh
+1Generations to come will scarce believe that such a one as this ever in flesh and blood walked upon this earth. (said of Mahatma Gandhi).
- Albert Einstein
+1The generations of men run on in the tide of time, but leave their destined lineaments permanent for ever and ever.
- William Blake
+1The longer I live the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for us.
- Oscar Wilde
+1There is always a heavy demand for fresh mediocrity. In every generation the least cultivated taste has the largest appetite.
- Paul Gauguin
+1There will never be a generation of great men until there has been a generation of free women.
- Robert Green Ingersoll
+1Wisdom is perishable. Unlike information or knowledge, it cannot be stored in a computer or recorded in a book. It expires with each passing generation.
- Anonymous
+1First we are children to our parents, then parents to our children, then parents to our parents, then children to our children.
- Milton Greenblatt
+1If you want happiness for a lifetime – help the next generation.
- Chinese Proverbs
+1Blessed is the generation in which the old listen to the young; and doubly blessed is the generation in which the young listen to the old.
- Anonymous
+1Every 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
+1They say genes skip generations. Maybe that’s why grandparents find their grandchildren so likeable.
- Joan McIntosh
