Generations Quotes

"A generation which ignores history has no past - and no future."

Robert A. Heinlein

"Each generation must out of relative obscurity discover its mission, fulfill it, or betray it."

Frantz Fanon

"Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new."

"Each age writes the history of the past anew with reference to the conditions uppermost in its own time."

Frederick Jackson Turner

“The old believe everything; the middle-aged suspect everything; the young know everything.”

“Architecture is a continuing dialogue between generations which creates an environment across time.”

Vincent Scully

“Anything that is in the world when you're born is normal and ordinary. Anything that's invented between when you're fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.”

Douglas Adams

“You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was.”

Irish Proverb

“True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.”

Kurt Vonnegut