If you want happiness for a lifetime – help the next generation.
Chinese Proverbs

The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible – and achieve it, generation after generation.
Pearl Buck

Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn’t have anything to do with it.
Haim Ginott

One generation plants the trees, and another gets the shade.
Chinese Proverbs

The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.
Abraham Lincoln

Every generation needs a new revolution.
Thomas Jefferson

It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.
Kahlil Gibran

Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.
Bill Cosby

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

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 greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.
William James

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

Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.
Lewis Mumford

A statesman is he who thinks in the future generations, and a politician is he who thinks in the upcoming elections.
Abraham Lincoln

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Great men, unknown to their generation, have their fame among the great who have preceded them, and all true worldly fame subsides from their high estimate beyond the stars.
Henry David Thoreau

Each generation goes further than the generation preceding it because it stands on the shoulders of that generation. You will have opportunities beyond anything we’ve ever known.
Ronald Reagan

Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation.
Adlai Stevenson

Bear in mind that the wonderful things you learn in your schools are the work of many generations. All this is put in your hands as your inheritance in order that you may receive it, honor it, add to it, and one day faithfully hand it on to your children.
Albert Einstein

Problems reproduce themselves from generation to generation… I refer to this as a ‘cycle of deprivation’.
Sir Keith Joseph

Every writer is a writer of the generation before.
Wilfrid Sheed

The older generation thought nothing of getting up at five every morning – and the younger generation doesn’t think much of it either.
John J. Welsh

A generation which ignores history has no past and no future.
Robert Heinlein

Nobody can be rich and stupid for more than one generation.
Romano Prodi

Generation Gap: A chasm, amorphously situated in time and space, that separates those who have grown up absurd from those who will, with luck, grow up absurd.
Bernard Rosenberg

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
Henry David Thoreau

I believe the destiny of your generation-and your nation-is a rendezvous with excellence.
Lyndon Johnson

I’m not of this generation.
Charles Manson

Listen carefully to what country people call mother wit. In those homely sayings are couched the collective wisdom of generations.
Maya Angelou

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.
Ronald Reagan

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

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

Generations to come will scarce believe that such a one as this ever in flesh and blood walked upon this earth.
Albert Einstein

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

Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

A father lives after death in his son.
Sanskrit

I’m one of a generation of women who have truly been able to reach the highest level – there have been no barriers.
Dawn Airey

We are the generation that brought the bomb in. We have got to be the generation that should take it out.
Martin Sheen