Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered. – W. Somerset Maugham

The reproduction of mankind is a great marvel and mystery. Had God consulted me in the matter, I should have advised him to continue the generation of the species by fashioning them out of clay. – Martin Luther

Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation. – Robert Kennedy

Our tastes greatly alter. The lad does not care for the child’s rattle, and the old man does not care for the young man’s whore. – Samuel Johnson

They say genes skip generations. Maybe that’s why grandparents find their grandchildren so likeable. – Joan McIntosh

Like a baseball game, wars are not over till they are over. Wars don’t run on a clock like football. No previous generation was so hopelessly unrealistic that this had to be explained to them. – Thomas Sowell

If I were given the opportunity to present a gift to the next generation, it would be the ability for each individual to learn to laugh at himself. – Charles M. Schulz

The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of opinion and detail, is the one that must rule all observation. – Adam Smith

There is always a heavy demand for fresh mediocrity. In every generation the least cultivated taste has the largest appetite. – Paul Gauguin

Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers. – Lewis Mumford, The Brown Decades

It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world. – Thomas Jefferson

That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another. – Adlai Stevenson

What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation? – Marcus Tullius Cicero

There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age – I missed it coming and going. – J.B. Priestly

The steady expansion of welfare programs can be taken as a measure of the steady disintegration of the Negro family structure over the past generation in the United States. – Daniel Patrick Moynihan

It changed me more than anything else. You don’t want to get to that place where you’re the adult and you’re palpably in the next generation. And, this shoved me into that. – Gwyneth Paltrow

Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn. – Joseph Addison

This is the generation whose first cry of life was the Hungarian uprising. – Joseph Brodsky

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

It’s a struggle but that’s why we exist, so that another generation of Lesbians of color will not have to invent themselves, or their history, all over again. – Audre Lorde

A man who is not a Liberal at sixteen has no heart; a man who is not a Conservative at sixty has no head. – Benjamin Disraeli

For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are devoted to the physical and spiritual nourishment of its inhabitants. – Jimmy Carter

The awareness that health is dependent upon habits that we control makes us the first generation in history that to a large extent determines its own destiny. – Jimmy Carter

I’m a huge Groucho fan. There were some great comic minds that would transfer into any generation, and Groucho is certainly one of them. – Joe Rogan

The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children. – Clarence Darrow

Perhaps the fact that we have seen millions voting themselves into complete dependence on a tyrant has made our generation understand that to choose one’s government is not necessarily to secure freedom. – Friedrich August von Hayek

For the first time in the history of mankind, one generation literally has the power to destroy the past, the present and the future, the power to bring time to an end. – Hubert H. Humphrey

I never threw an illegal pitch. The trouble is, once in a while I toss one that ain’t never been seen by this generation. – Satchel Paige

No member of our generation who wasn’t a Communist or a dropout in the thirties is worth a damn. – Lyndon B. Johnson

I’ve led this empty life for over forty years and now I can pass that heritage on and ensure that the misery will continue for at least one more generation. – Larry David