(1292 quotes found)
“A statesman is he who thinks in the future generations, and a politician is he who thinks in the upcoming elections.”
Abraham Lincoln
“Every generation thinks it has the answers, and every generation is humbled by nature”
Phillip Lubin
“Whoever teaches his son teaches not alone his son but also his son's son, and so on to the end of generations”
Hebrew Proverb
“If you want happiness for a lifetime - help the next generation.”
Chinese Proverbs
“Nobody can be rich and stupid for more than one generation.”
Romano Prodi
“The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.”
William James
“Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it”
George Orwell
“Every generation needs a new revolution.”
Thomas Jefferson
“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 onto future generations.”
George Bernard Shaw
“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.”
Bill Cosby