Generation Quotes
The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generation.
Pearl Buck
Education is our greatest opportunity to give an irrevocable gift to the next generation.
Ernie Fletcher
Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it.
John Quincy Adams
Women will only have true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Transferring successfully to the next generation means producing work that's as good as or better than the work of the first generation that founded the agency.
Jay Chiat
Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.
Joseph Addison
For the first time in the history of mankind, one generation literally has the power to destroy the past, the present and the future, the power to bring time to an end.
Hubert H. Humphrey
Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors.
Emile M. Cioran
The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
Lee Iacocca
Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Great men, unknown to their generation, have their fame among the great who have preceded them, and all true worldly fame subsides from their high estimate beyond the stars.
Henry David Thoreau
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.
Bill Cosby
The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.
Abraham Lincoln
Our death is not an end if we can live on in our children and the younger generation. For they are us, our bodies are only wilted leaves on the tree of life.
Albert Einstein
