Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
Each generation faces different issues and challenges, but our standard must always be measured by God's word.
Sacrifice still exists everywhere, and everywhere the elect of each generation suffers for the salvation of the rest.
Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors.
There really have only ever been a few people in each generation who step out, are willing to put themselves on the line, and risk everything for their beliefs.
Lucky individuals in each generation find technology appropriate to their needs.
It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous.
That's maybe the most important thing each generation does, is to break a lot of rules and make up their own way of doing things.
Are things getting better with each generation? Yes. It's quite interesting to be living in these times, for me to witness an African-American being elected president. It's quite extraordinary.
Each generation of pilots hopes that they will leave their profession better off than they found it.
Each generation has its own rendezvous with the land, for despite our fee titles and claims of ownership, we are all brief tenants on this planet. By choice, or by default, we will carve out a land legacy for our heirs.
Each generation seems to invent its own reasons for war.
Their eagerness for the big-band music and their ability to grasp the essence of it made me realize that today's generation has not been properly exposed to the big-band sound.
With lower start-up costs and a vastly expanded market for online services, the result is a global economy that for the first time will be fully digitally wired-the dream of every cyber-visionary of the early 1990s, finally delivered, a full generation later.
For me and my entire generation, we took on this kind of sarcastic, ironic, snarkiness because it seemed the most extreme reaction to the earnestness of hippies.
A revolution only lasts fifteen years, a period which coincides with the effectiveness of a generation.
I am surprised and embarrassed to be a part of the first American generation to leave the country in far worse shape than it was when we first came into it.
What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?
Is the minor convenience of allowing the present generation the luxury of doubling its energy consumption every 10 years worth the major hazard of exposing the next 20,000 generations to this lethal waste?
The more traditional fuel sources we have relied on as a nation - coal, oil, and natural gas - I'm hoping they can allow us the financial springboard to move to the next generation of energy sources: renewables and alternatives.