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.
Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans - born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace.
Author: A fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenting generations to come.
Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.
The reason people blame things on previous generations is that there's only one other choice.
A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.
Nothing is more singular about this generation than its addiction to music.
He had a massive stroke. He died with his tie on. Do you think that could be our generation's equivalent of that old saying about dying with your boots on?
I think my whole generation's mission is to kill the cliche.
America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.
The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.
Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn't have anything to do with it.
The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap.
This is the generation whose first cry of life was the Hungarian uprising.
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.