Generational Impact Quotes

The young people ... must recognize that they will get from their country tomorrow what they give her today.

A politician thinks of the next election; the statesman thinks of the next generation

When secularization has had its full sway, it will leave a generation devoid of shame. And if you show me a generation that lacks shame, I will show you a generation that is monstrous in its appetite... never satisfied.

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago. The person sitting in the shade now should be grateful for the person who planted and tended that tree. That includes all those benefactors of humanity throughout history that created, invented, financed, produced, maintained and improved all that we enjoy today.

I'll fight with every breath in my body to stop the out of control spending and debt that are bankrupting our kids and grandkids.

Each generation confronts new problems, encounters new facts, and tells our history somewhat differently.

I'm not a career kind of person. When I saw new music, new trends coming in, I didn't see any place for me. And I didn't think about it as a career loss, because I was married - I have a great- grandchild now. The low points were when I lost people that I really cared about.

I would not have had the same personal commitment to Alzheimer's disease if it had not been for my mother and my upbringing.

I never take for granted how lucky I am to be an American and what a privilege it is to spend each day at a nonprofit dedicated to helping the next generation of girls achieve their dreams. My journey, as the daughter of refugees, shows what refugees and the children of refugees can create for all Americans.

Every generation of Americans writes its own Constitution.

It's important that we take care of our future generations and expose them to some new things.

The difference between a politician and a statesman is: a politician thinks of the next election and a statesman thinks of the next generation.

Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.

My generation knows the cost of short-sightedness in Iraq.

Our seniors have worked long and hard to better the economy, raise families and serve their communities. They deserve to live independent and active lives in their golden years.

We've got to stop the name-calling and we've got to stop looking at the next election. We've got to be focused on figuring out what we're doing for the next generation.

Conservatives recognize that college campuses and their frames of reality have an outsized impact on the culture, training the next generation of leaders.

It is the duty of youth to bring fresh new powers to bear on Social progress. Each generation of young people should be to the world like a vast reserve force to a tired army. They should life the world forward. That is what they are for.

Even the most wretched individual of our present society could not exist and develop without the cumulative social efforts of countless generations.

I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.

I don't care what happens in 100 years. I won't be around.

All great change in America begins at the dinner table.

When we talk about mortality, we are talking about our children.

It's time to put country ahead of party. It's time to put the next generation ahead of the next election.

I see myself being a great-grandmother at my great-grandson's graduation from a school that has my name on it.