Quotes About Generation

Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made.

The Righteous Salaf were as fearful of their good deeds being squandered, or not being accepted, as the present generation is certain that their neglect would be forgiven.

The wisdom of one generation will be folly in the next.

What this generation was bred to at television's knees was not wisdom, but cynicism.

We're achieving better marbling and better flavor with old world wisdom that's been passed down for generations but we're still using technology.

'That is the story. Do you think there is any way of making them believe it?' ' Not in the first generation', he said, 'but you might succeed with the second and later generations.'

We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow. Our wiser sons, no doubt will think us so.

Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.

A program whose basic thesis is, not that the system of free enterprise for profit has failed in this generation, but that it has not yet been tried!

I have the impression that the new generation of young people, are coming up on the scene with a sense "ancestorhood", and with more wisdom than was evident before.

The purpose of our lives is to add value to the people of this generation and those that follow.

I think the amazing thing about gospel music is that not only does it lift up the death and resurrection of our Lord, which is consistent with the Gospel, but it is uniquely communicated depending upon the generation.

We are a microwave generation serving a Crock-Pot God.

Mam wra?enie, jakby ten kraj naprawd? umiera?. -Tyle lat szarpaniny. Zestarzeli?my si?, skapcanieli?my wydaj?c te nasze pó?legalne biuletyny, odezwy, które ma?o kto czyta. Owszem, m?odzie?. Ale m?odzie? ?eni si?, p?odzi dzieci, kupuje ma?ego fiata, wydzier?awia dzia?eczk?, sadzi pomidory. Zalewa nas mieszcza?stwo, sowieckie mieszcza?stwo.

When we left school, it was the early eighties. This country was on its knees. There were no jobs, none. If you couldn't go into Daddy's business, you emigrated or went on the dole. Even if you had the money and the points for college—and we didn't—that just put it off for a few years.

And so I write this for you, My Sarah. With the hope that one day, when you're old enough, this story that lives with me, will live with you as well. When a story is told, it is not forgotten. It becomes something else, a memory of who we were; the hope of what we can become." ? Tatiana de Rosnay, Sarah's Key

En cada generación nacen hombres perversos y el deber de una nación es hacerlos impotentes. Cuando veas a un hombre que ambicione el poder, lleno de odio y desprecio hacia sus semejantes, destrúyelo, Marco. Si alguien pretende cargos porque secretamente ambiciona lo que denomina "las masas" y desea controlarlas para esclavizarlas, prometiéndoles placeres que no han merecido, denúncialo. Debes tener presente Roma.

Unique and different is the new generation of beautiful You dont have to be like everybody else. In fact I dont think you should.

Porque si la duración de un universo es calculable, no lo es la variedad de vida que se genera. […] nada de eso puede predecirse, porque nada de eso era inevitable

Use your lives wisely, my friends, and conserve these precious freedoms for future generations.

I grew up in a physical world, and I speak English. The next generation is growing up in a digital world, and they speak social.

Americans are very enthusiastic. We have a new generation of moviegoers who love great horror films. I am a very imaginative man, and for me, it's easy to speak with my dark side. I have very beautiful, interesting nightmares.

I think, and I've thought this for a long time, that we live, roughly speaking, in the last generation of human beings.

When I was a kid, I resented my grandparents not speaking the perfect English I wanted to speak.