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“It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous.”
— Charles Dudley Warner, Backlog Studies, "Second Study” (1873).
“The Don Quixote of one generation may live to hear himself called the savior of society by the next.”
— James Russell Lowell, Don Quixote. Reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 724–25.
“There is a mysterious cycle in human events. To some generations much is given. Of other generations much is expected. This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.”
— Franklin D. Roosevelt, speech accepting renomination for the presidency, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, June 27, 1936. The Public Papers and Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936, p. 235 (1938).
“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 to the future.”
— Charles Lindbergh, New York Times Magazine (23 May 1971)
“A generation which ignores history has no past — and no future.”
— Robert A. Heinlein, (1973)
“In 20th-century England, an individual announcing that he was the son of God and would return after death in glory would probably attract psychiatric attention; but earlier generations might have regarded such claims as unsurprising.”
— Anthony Storr, Feet of Clay; Saints, Sinners, and Madmen: A Study of Gurus, New York: Free Press Paperbacks (1996), Chapter VII "The Jesuit and Jesus", p. 144 (1997).

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Not who you're looking for? Others named Generations: 2017 anthology comic book series · 1998 studio album by Steve Wilson · South African soap opera · album by Tetsuya Kakihara

Notable quotes

“It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous.”
— Charles Dudley Warner, Backlog Studies, "Second Study” (1873).
“The Don Quixote of one generation may live to hear himself called the savior of society by the next.”
— James Russell Lowell, Don Quixote. Reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 724–25.
“There is a mysterious cycle in human events. To some generations much is given. Of other generations much is expected. This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.”
— Franklin D. Roosevelt, speech accepting renomination for the presidency, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, June 27, 1936. The Public Papers and Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1936, p. 235 (1938).
“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 to the future.”
— Charles Lindbergh, New York Times Magazine (23 May 1971)
“A generation which ignores history has no past — and no future.”
— Robert A. Heinlein, (1973)
“In 20th-century England, an individual announcing that he was the son of God and would return after death in glory would probably attract psychiatric attention; but earlier generations might have regarded such claims as unsurprising.”
— Anthony Storr, Feet of Clay; Saints, Sinners, and Madmen: A Study of Gurus, New York: Free Press Paperbacks (1996), Chapter VII "The Jesuit and Jesus", p. 144 (1997).

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.