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  • Maybe you are the "cool" generation. If coolness means a capacity to stay calm and use your head in the service of ends passionately believed in, then it has my admiration.

    Baccalaureate address as President of Yale, June 12, 1966.
  • To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations - such is a pleasure beyond compare.

    Book   Reading   Writing  
    Yoshida Kenko (2009). “Essays in Idleness”, p.8, Cosimo, Inc.
  • Think not forever of yourselves, O Chiefs, nor of your own generation. Think of continuing generations of our families, think of our grandchildren and of those yet unborn, whose faces are coming from beneath the ground.

  • It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous.

    Ignorance   Glowing   Doe  
    Charles Dudley Warner (1873). “Backlog Studies”, p.28
  • I care about our young people, and I wish them great success, because they are our Hope for the Future, and some day, when my generation retires, they will have to pay us trillions of dollars in social security

    People   Wish   Dollars  
  • The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap.

    Past   Gaps   Generations  
    Spiro T. Agnew (1970). “Frankly speaking: a collection of extraordinary speeches”
  • It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.

    Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence and Papers, 1816-1826”, p.184, Cosimo, Inc.
  • If I were given the opportunity to present a gift to the next generation, it would be the ability for each individual to learn to laugh at himself.

  • We didn't have a generation gap, we had a generation Grand Canyon.

  • Mine is the first generation able to contemplate the possibility that we may live our entire lives without going to war or sending our children to war.

    "What to Call Tony: Analysts Review Blair Legacy". Interview with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. June 26, 2007.
  • Our generation has an incredible amount of realism, yet at the same time it loves to complain and not really change. Because, if it does change, then it won't have anything to complain about.

  • Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.

    Thomas Sowell (2007). “A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles”, p.108, Hachette UK
  • Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.

    Wise   Reading   Book  
    Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.69, Graphic Arts Books
  • Every old man complains of the growing depravity of the world, of the petulance and insolence of the rising generation.

    Men   Age   Complaining  
    Samuel Johnson (1820). “The Rambler”, p.266
  • What makes a book great, a so-called classic, it its quality of always being modern, of its author, though he be long dead, continuing to speak to each new generation.

    Book   Marijuana   Long  
    Lawrence Clark Powell (1968). “Bookman's Progress: The Selected Writings of Lawrence Clark Powell”
  • An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.

    "Persian Letters". Book by Montesquieu, 1721.
  • Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.

    Time   Future   Kids  
  • Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

  • I see no hope for the future of our people if they are dependent on the frivolous youth of today, for certainly all youth are reckless beyond words. When I was a boy, we were taught to be discrete and respectful of elders, but the present youth are exceedingly wise and impatient of restraint.

    Wise   Patience   Hope  
  • If you succumb to the temptation of using violence in the struggle, unborn generations will be the recipients of a long and desolate night of bitterness, and your chief legacy to the future will be an endless reign of meaningless chaos.

  • A father must lead his children; but first he must learn to follow. He must laugh with them but remember the ache of childhood tears. He must hold the past with one hand and reach to the future with the other so there can be no generation gap in family love.

    Children   Father   Past  
    June Masters Bacher (1979). “Quiet Moments for Women: A Daily Devotional”, Harvest House Pub
  • Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.

    Family   Music   Children  
    Bill Cosby (1987). “Fatherhood”, Berkley Publishing Group
  • Nothing is more singular about this generation than its addiction to music.

    Allan Bloom (2008). “Closing of the American Mind”, p.68, Simon and Schuster
  • A generation which ignores history has no past — and no future.

    Future   Past   History  
    Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.223, Penguin
  • I really have a generation gap about modern clothes.

  • Every generation needs a new revolution.

  • Every generation needs regeneration

  • Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.

    The Brown Decades ch. 1 (1931)
  • It is my firm belief that I have a link with the past and a responsibility to the future. I cannot give up. I cannot despair. There's a whole future, generations to come. I have to keep trying.

  • In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility - I welcome it.

    Inaugural Address, 20 Jan. 1961
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