Quotes by Generations It is important to make the best out of every generation. Forest Whitaker aginggenerationsimportant My generation of radicals and breakers-down never found anything to take the place of the old virtues of work and courage and the old graces of courtesy and politeness. F. Scott Fitzgerald generationsvirtuegrace I want to inspire the next generation. I want to be in mission control with someone younger than me wanting to break my record. Felix Baumgartner recordsgenerationsinspire Prayer is powerful! It fills the earth with mercy, it makes the Divine clemency pass from generation to generation; right along the course of the centuries wonderful works have been achieved through prayer. Frances Xavier Cabrini generationspowerfulprayer I belong to a generation - assuming that this generation includes others besides me - that lost its faith in the gods of the old religions as well as in the gods of modern nonreligions. I reject Jehova as I reject humanity. Fernando Pessoa this-generationgenerationshumanity The knowledge of one generation is the ignorance of the next. Frances Wright nextgenerationsignorance There is a steady check in an old civilisation upon the fertility of the abler classes: the improvident and unambitious are those who chiefly keep up the breed. So the race gradually deteriorates, becoming in each successive generation less fit for a high civilisation. Francis Galton generationsraceclass Knowing who you are is good for one generation only. You haven't the foggiest idea where you stand now or who you are Flannery O'Connor knowing-who-you-aregenerationsideas What wakes me up at night is this next generation and what's happening to them. And they're invariably excited about the science that they're doing, but invariably anxious about where there's a future. Francis Collins nextgenerationsnight It is probably fair to estimate the frequency of a majority of mutations, in higher organisms, between one in ten thousand and one in a million per gene per generation. Francisco J. Ayala mutationmajoritygenerations Each generation of the church in each setting has the responsibility of communicating the gospel in understandable terms, considering the language and thought-forms of that setting. Francis Schaeffer generationschurchresponsibility To fail to exhibit that we take truth seriously at those points where there is a cost in our doing so, is to push the next generation in the relative, dialectical millstream that surrounds us. Francis Schaeffer nextgenerationscost I have come to the conclusion that none of us in our generation feels as guilty about sin as we should or as our forefathers did. Francis Schaeffer our-generationgenerationssin This war has already stretched the generation gap so wide that it threatens to pull the country apart. Frank Church generationswarcountry Their preservation depends upon a sentiment. As sentiment never yet annihilated a paying industry, we cannot hope to stay, wholly, the ax and saw of the lumberman. But popular opinion, combined with action, if directed intelligently towards the setting apart of some one section of the noble redwood forests... will, I believe, save for our present delight and for that of the generations who come after us, at least one grand forest of the Sequoia sempervirens such as the world cannot show elsewhere, such as a thousand years cannot reproduce. Frank Howard Clark generationsbelieveyears Architecture has always been a very idealistic profession. It's about making the world a better place and it works over the generations because people go on vacation and they look for it. Frank Gehry vacationgenerationspeople No art that is not in the end understood by the People can live or ever did live a single generation. Frank Norris generationspeopleart Each generation must discover its mission, fulfill it or betray it, in relative opacity. Frantz Fanon missionsbetraygenerations I don't think that comedians have a tradition of trashing the next generation. Franklyn Ajaye comediangenerationsthinking To some generations much is given. Of other generations, much is expected. Franklin D. Roosevelt rendezvousthis-generationgenerations«2425262728293031323334»
