(1292 quotes found)
“Listen carefully to what country people call mother wit. In those homely sayings are couched the collective wisdom of generations.”
Maya Angelou
“Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.”
Henry David Thoreau
“Generations to come will scarce believe that such a one as this ever in flesh and blood walked upon this earth.”
Albert Einstein
“A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.”
James Freeman Clarke
“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”
Dave Barry
“Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn't have anything to do with it.”
Dr. Haim Ginott
“What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!”
Henrik Ibsen
“The reason people blame things on previous generations is that there's only one other choice.”
Doug Larson
“Nothing is more singular about this generation than its addiction to music.”
Allan Bloom
“The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives”
William James
