Generations Quotes
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Before (the Palestinians) very eyes we are possessing the land and the villages where they and their ancestors have lived We are the generation of colonizers and without the steel helmet and the gun barrel we cannot plant a tree and build a house.
Moshe Dayan -
The character of a generation is moulded by personal character.
Brooke Foss Westcott
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There we were all in one place, a generation lost in space.
Don McLean -
Natasha has just come up to the window from the courtyard and opened it wider so that the air may enter more freely into my room. I can see the bright green strip of grass beneath the wall, and the clear blue sky above the wall, and sunlight everywhere. Life is beautiful. Let the future generations cleanse it of all evil, oppression and violence, and enjoy it to the full.
Leon Trotsky -
You went to Woodstock and all that trash, your generation is fading fast.
Rod Stewart -
I never threw an illegal pitch. The trouble is, once in a while I toss one that ain't never been seen by this generation.
Satchel Paige -
Education is only the most fully conscious of the channels whereby each generation influences the next.
C. S. Lewis -
What originally established the band was cover songs like Not Fade Away. Then, later on, we got more well-known ones like Satisfaction, which you might say echoed the thinking of, well, any generation you care to name, including the present one. But we didn't set out on bits of paper that we were going to be the voice of a generation. The original aim of the Rolling Stones was to play blues. It wasn't even to play rock music.
William S. Burroughs
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We've been around for almost three decades now - there's about three generations of Bon Jovi fans.
Richie Sambora Bon Jovi -
'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.'
Plato -
I had a feeling that my generation-and me, also-we were naked. We did not belong to anything.
Aharon Appelfeld -
From one generation to the next, The Beatles will remain the most important rock band of all time.
Dave Grohl Nirvana -
Maurice Kenny stands at the forefront of his generation. Few writers of any ethnicity are destined to be remembered in the mainstream of literary history; I believe that Kenny's contributions as a poet are among those few. He writes from the center, as our Elders would say.
Wendy Rose -
There is no generation from an egg in the Mineral Kingdom. Hence no vascular circulation of the humours as in the remaining Natural Kingdoms.
Carl Linnaeus
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Some generations were drafted for war, your generation is being asked to stay home. Easy sacrifice.
Alexander Polinsky -
I dont believe that anyone can see the Grand Canyon area for themselves and not know that we have to do everything we can to protect it for future generations.
Nolan Gould -
Anyone of my generation who trusts government probably has an I.Q. that would make a good golf score.
Rita Mae Brown -
I think it's very important that we should pass on to our future generations… the things we've learnt.
R. M. Williams -
He who lives to see two or three generations is like a man who sits some time in the conjurer's booth at a fair, and witnesses the performance twice or thrice in succession. The tricks were meant to be seen only once; and when they are no longer a novelty and cease to deceive, their effect is gone.
Arthur Schopenhauer -
We are all a complete mixture;yet at the same time,we are all related.Each gene can trace its own journey to a different common ancestor.This is a quite extraordinary legacy that we all have inherited from the people who lived before us.Our genes did not just appear when we were born.They have been carried to us by millions of individual lives over thousands of generations.
Bryan Sykes
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It seems like the millennial generation is a little bit of a cultural punching bag.
Audie Cornish -
The generations of men run on in the tide of time, but leave their destined lineaments permanent for ever and ever.
William Blake -
Even the most wretched individual of our present society could not exist and develop without the cumulative social efforts of countless generations.
Mikhail Bakunin -
There are generations who watch Doctor Who together.
Sarah Sutton