Quotes about Generation

I am increasingly persuaded that the earth belongs exclusively to the living and that one generation has no more right to bind another to it's laws and judgments than one independent nation has the right to command another.

We seem not to perceive that, by the law of nature, one generation is to another as one independent nation is to another.

On similar ground it may be proved that no society can make a perpetual constitution, or even a perpetual law. The earth belongs always to the living generation. They may manage it then, and what proceeds from it, as they please, during their usufruct.

Blind acceptance never leads to a solution; at best it leads only to a standstill and is paid for heavily in the next generation.

Life is a flame that is always burning itself out, but it catches fire again every time a child is born.

If youth is the season of hope, it is often so only in the sense that our elders are hopeful about us.

Younger theologians will continue to pursue and understand truth rather than deconstructing it, as a lot of their elders seemed to want to do.

We in this country, in this generation, are, by destiny rather than choice, the watchmen on the walls of world freedom.

A minister is coming down every generation nearer and nearer to the common level of the useful citizen - no oracle at all, but a man of more than average moral instincts, who if he knows anything, knows how little he knows.

The fiery trials through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the last generation.

They were like the man with the dungeon stone and gloom, rising from the underground, the sordid hipsters of America, a new beat generation that I was slowly joining.

I have to hold a meeting with the rising generation every evening, and that takes time. Henry can say, 'Twinkle, twinkle,' all himself, and Edward can repeat it after his father! Giants of genius! Paragons of erudition!