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Lust is the cause of generation.
the brains of your generation.
The wrong-doing of one generation lives into the successive ones.
The generation that bought the most shoes and crippled the moral footing
They say greatness skips a generation, but I think that's because the generation before helps too much.
I've got weird conflicting feelings about my generation.
My generation is now the door to memory. That is why I am remembering.
Each generation supposes that the world was simpler for the one before it.
My father's generation gave to my generation a land of wealth and purpose and world economic dominance.
Every generation, no matter how paltry its character, thinks itself much wiser than the one immediately preceding it, let alone those that are more remote.
What happened when there was no prospect of anything beyond this generation? What happened when...
Each generation exercises power over its successors: and each, in so far as it modifies the environment bequeathed to it and rebels against tradition, resists and limits the power of its predecessors.
We must produce a great age, or see the collapse of the upward striving of our race.
My generation failed to change the world, but at least I did not let the world change me.
First it was "The Silent Generation", then "Generation Boomers", then "Generation X", then "Generation Y" and as last "Generation Z".
Only a generation of readers will spawn a generation of writers.
The generation is unceasing. Beauty, as both Plato's Symposium and everyday life confirm, prompts the begetting of children: when the eye sees someone beautiful, the whole body wants to reproduce the person.
The next generation will always surpass the previous one. It's one of the never-ending cycles in life.
You can take as much as you can from the generation that has preceded you, but then it's up to you to make something new.
We have multi-generations coming to our show.
The nation is burdened with the heavy curse on those who come afterwards. The generation before us was inspired by an activism and a naive enthusiasm, which we cannot rekindle, because we confront tasks of a different kind from those which our fathers faced.
When three generations are present in a family, one of them is bound to be revolutionary.
Hardly any generation wants to take the whole of the last generation, it just wants to take its best bits.
What essence is to generation, that truth is to belief.
Every generation must recognize and embrace the task it is peculiarly designed by history and by providence to perform.
The older generations have eaten the future of the younger ones.
A generation comes and a generation goes, but the earth remains forever (Eccl. 1:4).
The most-praised generation goes to work
We are enmeshed in a lineage that came from somewhere and is going to make way for the next generation.
All technological change is generational change.
That which is truly human no generation learns from the one before it. No generation learns from another how to love. No generation has a shorter task assigned to it except insofar as the previous generation shirked its task and deluded itself.
Each generation has something different at which they are all looking.
Nothing changes from one generation to another except the things seen and the things seen make that generation, that is to say nothing changes in people from one generation to another except the way of seeing and being seen.
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.
From generation to generation, lights are extinguished and darkness threatens until some one stoops to bear the torch.
The thing that makes my generation The Greatest is our ability to hang out. We're spectacular at it. If you take somebody from my generation and sit them on a couch and bring them food and plumbing, they'll sit there and talk to you about anything you want until the day you die.
It is the generation of the unemphatic. Steal, kill, lie, fornicate, but beware of indulging with conviction.
The mistakes of one generation build upon the mistakes of the next and you get a society that no one really wanted.
No other generation but ours can evangelize the present generation.
The men and women of my generation are heirs to that great collective success which has been admired worldwide and of which we are so proud. It is now up to us to pass it on to the coming generations.
We often hear about stepping outside ourselves, but rarely about stepping outside our generation.
Any given generation gives the next generation advice that the given generation should have been given by the previous generation but now it's too late.
Generations will soon come into their power feeling differently about themselves than we do now, and in their re-enchanted world, they will wonder about us and what we did to their world, and what we thought we were doing.
So what are we given? We're also given, my generation, the disillusionment of our parents.
True success comes only when every generation continues to develop the next generation.
The open-minded pursuit of an educated life has the power to slay generational ignorance
Every generation inherits a world it never made; and, as it does so, it automatically becomes the trustee of that world for those who come after. In due course, each generation makes its own accounting to its children.
Our generation has the ability and the responsibility to make our ever-more connected world a more hopeful, stable and peaceful place.
Every generation that comes from this family has to do better than the last.
The neglect of a generation is regeneration so every soul may become its own history, not the incessant anxiety of unnaturally imposed lessons, a plague of its own making.
I'm an older generation.
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.
We are the last generation of humans on Earth!
My generation had to be taken seriously because we were stopping things and burning things. We were able to initiate change, because we had such vast numbers. We were part of the baby boom, and when we moved, everything moved with us.
I come from a long line of generations!
I suppose every generation has a conceit of itself which elevates it, in its own opinion, above that which comes after it. ("The Open Door")
My generation were diners stuffing ourselves senseless at the Restaurant of the Earth's Riches knowing - while denying - that we'd be doing a runner and leaving our grandchildren a tab that can never be paid.
Tell me what are the prevailing sentiments that occupy the minds of your young peoples, and I will tell you what is to be the character of the next generation.
It is, I believe, the greatest generation any society has ever produced.
Each generation wants new symbols, new people, new names. They want to divorce themselves from their predecessors.
we members of one of its final generations should devote some time to answering one last question:
Serving my generation with excellence will mean my generation can in turn lead with excellence.
Each generation must go further than the last or what's the use in it?
Discussions of generations only go downhill. There's no point in having them.
Each generation must discover its mission, fulfill it or betray it, in relative opacity.
I think my generation is a lost generation in a way.
Every generation feels it has the problems that will destroy it. That's because we can perceive them a long time before we have the ability to fix them.
The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity.
One generation abandons the enterprises of another like stranded vessels.
I'm trying to influence the next generation or two generations or three generations behind me. That's a big ambition of mine.
For with but one generation, History and truth are lost forever.
I have two children. I have a daughter 29, and a daughter four. They are 25 years apart, so you speak about generations and I must tell you, I have a philosophy and that is every 25 years I'm going to sire another child.
New generations have unprecedented power to make great changes. Take the music business for example. The new generations have toppled the music industry by file sharing, downloading, and Myspace. Rock 'n' roll belongs to the people.
Each generation has been an education for us in different ways. The first child-with-bloody-nose was rushed to the emergency room. The fifth child-with-bloody-nose was told to go to the yard immediately and stop bleeding on the carpet.
Every generation of children offers mankind the possibility of rebuilding his ruin of a world.
Life on earth may be limited, but grandchildren were the promise of the eternal.
Oh you, my generation!- we were a lovely lot! Sharp minds- arguing all the time and brittle bodies and even more brittle laughter- and all the time knowing that we were growing up to die.
It takes a society to raise a generation.
My generation were all careerists.
My generation will actually be the first generation that is tamer than the one that came before it, and it will probably be poorer; less fun and less money.
One of the things that I am learning is that each generation will have its own negotiations with identity. And one generation can not necessarily help the other generation with it.
Every generation proclaims that each must lead his own life, but seldom grants the subsequent generation the right to lead theirs.
Today however, a new generation must arise that will take their works further. This generation must rely less on signs and wonders, but rely more on developing skills and building industries.
Each generation goes further than the generation preceding it because it stands on the shoulders of that generation. You will have opportunities beyond anything we've ever known.
We are truly defined by what we pass on to the next generation.
For mankind as a whole, a possession infinitely more valuable than individual life is our genetic heritage, our link with past and future ... Yet genetic deterioration through man-made agents is the menace of our time ...
What our Seventh Generation will have is a consequence of our actions today.
The previous generation paved the way for my generation to gallop unheeded into jobs previously reserved for men.
The younger generation will come knocking at my door.
Into every generation comes a vampire.
If there is any responsibility in the cycle of life it must be that one generation owes to the next that strength by which it can come to face ultimate concerns in its own way.
No generation has a free hold on this earth. All we have is a life tenancy-with a full repairing lease.
We are the climactic generation of human cultural evolution, and in the microcosm of our lives the macrocosm of the evolution of the human race is playing itself out.
It is the stories of REAL PEOPLE living REAL LIVES that will define out generation.
We must convince each generation that they are transient passengers on this planet earth. It does not belong to them. They are not free to doom generations yet unborn. They are not at liberty to erase humanity's past nor dim its future.
What is buried in the past of one generation falls to the next to claim.
History can't tell us. Each generation must define itself.
We are the last generation with a real opportunity to save the world.
We are the heirs of the ages
I have overlived the generation with which mutual labors & perils begat mutual confidence and influence.