Generations Quotes

"Family faces are magic mirrors. Looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present, and future."

Gail Lumet Buckley

"Anything that is in the world when you're born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works."

Douglas Adams

"Technology is anything that wasn't around when you were born."

Alan Kay

"Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another."

G. K. Chesterton

"Society is indeed a contract... a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born."

Edmund Burke

"Every 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

"The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything."

"In democracies, each new generation is a new people."

Alexis de Tocqueville

"Like the generations of leaves, the lives of mortal men."

Homer

“People from the struggle, immigrants: there's no generational wealth that we are attached to, so we are tasked to create, in one generation, closing the gap. That's why we're so serious about getting to the check: 'cause it's life or death for real.”

“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.”

“I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain.”

“I am surprised and embarrassed to be a part of the first American generation to leave the country in far worse shape than it was when we first came into it.”

“There is a mysterious cycle in human events. To some generations much is given. Of other generations much is expected. This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.”

“Young men, trust God, and make the future bright with blessing. Old men, trust God, and magnify him for all the mercies of the past.”

“Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.”

“Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.”

G. K. Chesterton

“To be as good as our fathers we must be better; imitation is not discipleship.”

Wendell Phillips

“By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong.”

Charles Wadsworth

“In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.”

Alex Haley

“Everyone needs to have access both to grandparents and grandchildren in order to be a full human being.”

Margaret Mead

“One generation plants the trees; another gets the shade.”

Chinese Proverb

“A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.”

Greek Proverb

“Struggle is a never-ending process. Freedom is never really won; you earn it and win it in every generation.”

Coretta Scott King

“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.”