Each Generation Quotes

Here, we’ve compiled a list of the best Each Generation Quotes from famous persons: Julius Sterling Morton, Dominic Cummings, George Martin, Alberto Moravia, Mary Doria Russell. The wide variety of quotes available makes it possible to find a quote to suit your needs. You’ve likely heard some of the Each Generation Quotes before, but that’s because they truly are great.

Each generation takes the earth as trustees. We ought to bequeath to posterity as many forests and orchards as we have exhausted and consumed.

Julius Sterling Morton

Science advances by turning new ideas into standard ideas so each generation builds on the last.

Dominic Cummings

I think that one of the nice things about the Yellow Submarine movie is that it seems to be perennial. People enjoy watching from each generation. And it was like the Beatles themselves. You know the Beatles seem to find new audience each time another generation comes along.

George Martin

Our ideals, laws and customs should be based on the proposition that each generation in turn becomes the custodian rather than the absolute owner of our resources – and each generation has the obligation to pass this inheritance on in the future.

Alberto Moravia

Each generation of adolescents has at least two historical events that color its responses to whatever happens next.

Mary Doria Russell

Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made.

Bill Cosby

The modern minds in each generation are the critics who preserve us from a petrifying world, who will not leave us to walk undisturbed in the ways of our fathers.

Edith Hamilton

This nation is never finished. It has to be re-created in each generation.

Lee H. Hamilton

It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous.

Charles Dudley Warner

It used to be that one poet in each generation performed poems in public. In the twenties, it was Vachel Lindsay, who sometimes dropped to his knees in the middle of a poem. Then Robert Frost took over, and made his living largely on the road.

Donald Hall

It is a quirk of American culture that each generation of nonconservatives sees the right-wingers of its own generation as the scary ones, then chooses to remember the right-wingers of the last generation as sort of cuddly.

Rick Perlstein

From my perspective, I’m trying to stand for a generation. You know, each generation has designers who go along with it.

Virgil Abloh

Each generation is smarter than the generation before, and they need total diversion and encouragement and things to think about.

Martha Stewart

Being an American is an action; it’s an ideal to strive for. It’s being part of this constantly perfecting union that, with each generation, expands our scope and human understanding of ‘We the people.’

Sarah McBride

Each new generation of children grows up in the new environment its parents have created, and each generation of brains becomes wired in a different way. The human mind can change radically in just a few generations.

Alison Gopnik

Music, Rock and Roll music especially, is such a generational thing. Each generation must have their own music, I had my own in my generation, you have yours, everyone I know has their own generation.

Ronnie James Dio

I’m a ‘tweener,’ man! I couldn’t march with Dr. King and them. And I’m too old to be a hip-hopper. But I’ve been granted honorary status in each generation… I see my tongue as a bridge over which ideas can travel back and forth.

Michael Eric Dyson

Our families don’t always cross the finish line in the span of one generation. But each generation passes on to the next the fruits of their labor.

Julian Castro

We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority, to bind themselves, but none to bind the succeeding generation, more than the inhabitants of another country.

Thomas Jefferson

With each generation, women‘s ability to live the lives they choose reaches a place their grandmothers never thought possible. But that doesn’t mean everything is perfect or that our work is finished.

Cathy McMorris Rodgers

Are things getting better with each generation? Yes. It’s quite interesting to be living in these times, for me to witness an African-American being elected president. It’s quite extraordinary.

Lenny Kravitz

Using the Africanist model, each generation should take the family name to a higher place. My father’s folks were sharecroppers in South Carolina. He went to Harlem. They were still poor, but they moved up. If my parents didn’t do this and offer me this background, I wouldn’t be here.

Ving Rhames

Each generation tries to disassociate itself with the last generation. And then, about three decades later, people kind of start to maybe appreciate what you might have done a while back that you don’t even realize you did.

Michael McDonald

I’m trying to tell the story of the evolution of America. Each biography is a life in time, and I can see there’s a particular task for each generation that I write about.

H. W. Brands

In the end, the American dream is not a sprint, or even a marathon, but a relay. Our families don’t always cross the finish line in the span of one generation. But each generation passes on to the next the fruits of their labor.

Julian Castro

Democracy is something that you must learn each generation. It has to be taught.

Anthony Kennedy

One of the things that I am learning is that each generation will have its own negotiations with identity. And one generation can not necessarily help the other generation with it.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Each generation of pilots hopes that they will leave their profession better off than they found it.

Chesley Sullenberger

Each generation is trusted with protecting our open spaces and natural resources to pass them on to future Americans to enjoy.

Mikie Sherrill

Luckily, each generation brings forth great writers, actors, directors, and designers.

Harriet Walter

Sacrifice still exists everywhere, and everywhere the elect of each generation suffers for the salvation of the rest.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Each generation has its own rendezvous with the land, for despite our fee titles and claims of ownership, we are all brief tenants on this planet. By choice, or by default, we will carve out a land legacy for our heirs.

Stewart Udall

Literary generations come and go, and each generation passeth away and is heard of no more. In the end, simply the making itself – of poems and stories and essays – delivers the only reward a writer can be sure of. And, perhaps, the only one that matters.

Michael Dirda

I think each generation struggles with its own set of problems.

Freddie Fox

Economic growth is necessary to keep the promise – enormously important to individual Americans – that each generation will have the opportunity to become more prosperous than the preceding one, the popular term for which is ‘the American dream.’

Michael Mandelbaum

The amazing fact is that America is founded on a document. It’s a work in progress. It can be tested by each generation.

Christopher Hitchens

Trouble is, kids feel they have to shock their elders and each generation grows up into something harder to shock.

Ben Lindsey

Lucky individuals in each generation find technology appropriate to their needs.

Freeman Dyson

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

There really have only ever been a few people in each generation who step out, are willing to put themselves on the line, and risk everything for their beliefs.

Wynton Marsalis

Each generation wants new symbols, new people, new names. They want to divorce themselves from their predecessors.

Jim Morrison

Each generation doubtless feels called upon to reform the world. Mine knows that it will not reform it, but its task is perhaps even greater. It consists in preventing the world from destroying itself.

Albert Camus

Each generation has a backlash against the generation before.

Jo Brand

Each generation of scientists stands upon the shoulders of those who have gone before.

Owen Chamberlain

History has proven that each generation of Howard graduates will forge the way forward for our country and our world.

Kamala Harris