Civilization is not inherited; it has to be learned and earned by each generation anew; if the transmission should be interrupted for one century, civilization would die, and we should be savages again.
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 confronts new problems, encounters new facts, and tells our history somewhat differently.
Each generation is trusted with protecting our open spaces and natural resources to pass them on to future Americans to enjoy.
Each generation looks to its children to keep our society moving and to make life better.
Each new generation of children grows up in the new environment its parents have created, and each generation of brains becomes wired in a different way. The human mind can change radically in just a few generations.
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.
Each generation, as it seeks to advance the common good, must ask anew: 'What are the requirements that governments may reasonably impose upon citizens, and how far do they extend? By appeal to what authority can moral dilemmas be resolved?'
Every generation inherits a world it never made; and, as it does so, it automatically becomes the trustee of that world for those who come after. In due course, each generation makes its own accounting to its children.
The people of each generation perceive the state of the ecosystems they encountered in their childhood as normal and natural. When wildlife is depleted, we might notice the loss, but we are unaware that the baseline by which we judge the decline is in fact a state of extreme depletion.
Each generation needs a 'Spider-Man' to mirror their angst.
Being an American is an action; it's an ideal to strive for. It's being part of this constantly perfecting union that, with each generation, expands our scope and human understanding of 'We the people.'
Predictions of America’s decline are as old as the republic. But they perform a critical function in driving the kind of renewal that is required of each generation of Americans….as long as we’re worried about the future, the future will be better.
The secret to economic growth lay in the fact that that each generation attacked Nature not only with its own energies and resources, but with the heritage of equipment accumulated by its forebears.
Each generation is smarter than the generation before, and they need total diversion and encouragement and things to think about.
A commitment to the Constitution is not something that's genetic. It's not inherited. It's not automatic. It has to be taught. And each generation must learn about the Constitution and the values of constitutional institutions within the context of their own time, within the environment of their own time.
Economic growth is necessary to keep the promise - enormously important to individual Americans - that each generation will have the opportunity to become more prosperous than the preceding one, the popular term for which is 'the American dream.'
History has proven that each generation of Howard graduates will forge the way forward for our country and our world.
Luckily, each generation brings forth great writers, actors, directors, and designers.
The glory of each generation is to make its own precedents.
Each generation seems to invent its own reasons for war.
Each generation of Americans must define what it means to be an American.
Poverty is not a trait of character. It is created anew in each generation but not by heredity, by circumstances.
With each generation, women's ability to live the lives they choose reaches a place their grandmothers never thought possible. But that doesn't mean everything is perfect or that our work is finished.
Each generation wants new symbols, new people, new names. They want to divorce themselves from their predecessors.
