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
But it was also the best mistake I’ve ever made, because what it did was hopefully allow a whole new generation to make up their own minds about Scientology and for that I make no apology. – John Sweeney
I have had much to learn from Sweden’s poetry and, more especially, from her lyrics of the last generation. – Knut Hamsun
Young people in my generation were sort of in lockstep, and it wasn’t just the ’40s, either. In the ’30s and in the ’50s it was the same. No one ever dropped out unless he got sick or got kicked out. – John Knowles
For a generation, terrorists learned they could make war on free nations without fear of war in return. On September 12, the terrorists got war in return. – Ken Mehlman
Then goes he, and takes with himself seven other spirits more wicked than himself, and they enter in and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first. Even so shall it be also to this wicked generation. – The Bible Matthew 12:45
The stone which Jacob consecrated at Bethel the generation of the living continues to anoint, paying the tithes which of old he vowed to the house of God there. – Julius Wellhausen
I tend to write about more than one generation because as a child I had contact with more than one generation; it was normal to be around older people. – Joanne Harris
Librarians are teaching the next generation how to use digital media responsibly. – Jarrett J. Krosoczka
Never will the doctrine of spontaneous generation recover from the mortal blow struck by this simple experiment. – Louis Pasteur
Beyond brand, culture can help drive your product itself by creating the conditions for the idea generation that is and will continue to be the lifeblood of any company. – Leah Busque
If you don’t focus on the future generation, it means you are destroying your country. – Malala Yousafzai
If you look at the first generation of wireless, it really lasted about 15 years before we went to the second generation. When we implemented the fourth generation, which allowed us to do all the smartphones and the videos, the time between that and going to the fifth generation is going to be four years. – Lowell McAdam
What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation? – Marcus Tullius Cicero
Nuclear is an important part of the heritage of Duke. We operate the largest regulated nuclear fleet in the U.S. We love the diversity of the generation. – Lynn Good
The people who watched ‘Dawson’s Creek’ when it originally aired aren’t too old to enjoy ‘Life Unexpected.’ And then you’ve got the whole next generation that’s hooked on the ‘Dawson’s reruns seeing this show, so it’s perfect for them. – Kerr Smith
The first 45 or 50 years of the regional theater movement, all these folks, they built these theaters. The job of the next generation is to maintain them. – Kenny Leon
I’ll be the first one to tell you I burn coal… That fossil generation and the nuclear generation, frankly, is necessary in order for me to provide power. – Lynn Good
My generation have had it good, and I am really troubled by what we have done with it. – Jeremy Paxton
Hip-hop, which is my generation’s blues, is important to the characters that I write about. They use hip-hop to understand the world through language. – Jesmyn Ward
I was part of the generation that pushed the Internet. In fact, I broke as an artist in the U.S.A. because of the Internet. – M.I.A.
I’m part of that generation that grew up watching TV, and being an actor was all about being on TV or being in films. – Lennie James
I’m from a generation of fantastic actresses. It’s a big pool of really wonderful actresses, and so many of them we never even get to see on the screen anymore. – Karen Allen
You can try to reach an audience, but you just write what comes out of you and you just hope that it is accepted. You do not write specifically to a generation. – Leon Uris
As people of color, it took a whole generation in many ways to get us out of the kitchen, and it’s gonna take us the same whole generation to get us back into the kitchen and have ownership of restaurants, hotels and stuff like that. – Marcus Samuelsson
My particular lifetime, my individual profile, represents something very basic to African-American history and culture because I was a second generation immigrant, so to speak, from the South. My grandfather was born in South Carolina – well, both grandfathers were born in the South. – John Edgar Wideman
Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers. – Lewis Mumford
I am Warhol. I am the No. 1 most impactful artist of our generation. I am Shakespeare in the flesh. – Kanye West
