Quotes by Generations In mathematics alone each generations adds a new story to the old structure. Hermann Hankel generationsmathadd Natural beauty and wonder are priceless heirlooms which God has bestowed upon our nation. How shall we escape the contempt of the coming generation if we suffer this irreplaceable heritage to be wasted? Henry Van Dyke heritagegenerationssuffering Each new generation is a fresh invasion of savages. Hervey Allen savagesinvasiongenerations Our culture is something that has sustained us for thousands and thousands of years and will continue to do so in generations to come. Hetti Perkins generationsyearsart Truly every generation discovers the world all new again and knows it can improve it. Herbert Hoover youthgenerationsworld To a Brit of my generation, one of the most objectionable things about [Margaret] Thatcher is her falsity. She is a total construct. For one thing, she had a made-over accent. Hilary Mantel accentsgenerationsmade For what's the point of breeding children, if each generation does not improve on what went before. Hilary Mantel generationsdoechildren When I began to read as an adult, my first big enthusiasm was Evelyn Waugh. I read almost exclusively novelists of a generation back. I did the Russians, then I started getting more up to date. Hilary Mantel generationsnovelistsadults The more numerous public instrumentalities become, the more is there generated in citizens the notion that everything is to be done for them, and nothing by them. Every generation is made less familiar with the attainment of desired ends by individual actions or private agencies; until, eventually, governmental agencies come to be thought of as the only available agencies. Herbert Spencer agencygenerationscitizens The contemporary Japanese directors who are well-known in the West - say, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Takeshi Kitano, Naomi Kawase - are mostly unknown to Japanese, particularly of the younger generation. Hirokazu Koreeda generationswestdirectors I learned about the benefits and the vast limitations of such types of exploration, as did all my generation. Frederick Lenz ramabenefitsgenerations Fear of corrupting the mind of the younger generation is the loftiest form of cowardice. Holbrook Jackson censorship-in-booksgenerationsmind We should, if possible, prove a teacher to posterity, instead of being the pupil of by-gone generations. More shall come after us than have gone before; the world is not yet middle-aged. Herman Melville generationsgoneteacher Time is made up of various ages; and each thinks its own a novelty. Herman Melville generationsagethinking As each generation comes into the world devoid of knowledge, its first duty is to obtain possession of the stores already amassed. It must overtake its predecessors before it can pass by them. Horace Mann generationsworldknowledge Demography is changing us as we are older societies, we're living longer. How the generations balance each other out, how that affects education and health care. Howard Baker generationsbalancecare In the midst of a generation screaming for answers, Christians are stuttering. Howard G. Hendricks generationsepicchristian It is my humble prayer that I may be of some use in my day and generation. Hosea Ballou generationsprayerhumble Every tradition grows continually more venerable, and the more remote its origins, the more this is lost sight of. The veneration paid the tradition accumulates from generation to generation, until it at last becomes holy and excites awe. Friedrich Nietzsche generationsexperiencesight ...Haller's sickness of the soul, as I now know, is not the eccentricity of a single individual, but the sickness of the times themselves, the neurosis of that generation to which Haller belongs, a sickness, it seems, that by no means attacks the weak and worthless only but, rather, precisely those who are strongest in spirit and richest in gifts. Hermann Hesse generationssoulmean«3233343536373839404142»
