I absolutely refuse to accept the fact that any country in the world goes into a kind of film-making crisis. What happens is they lose confidence, they lose focus and the young film-makers of any particular generation can very easily get lost in that mix. It's happened in Italy, happened in France, happened in the U.K. during my lifetime.
Perhaps most ridiculous of all is the suggestion that we 'keep' our radioactive garbage for the use of our descendants. This 'solution', I think, requires an immediate poll of the next 20,000 generations.
He plants to benefit another generation.
I had a feeling that my generation-and me, also-we were naked. We did not belong to anything.
The very worst impulses of humankind can survive generations, centuries, even millennia. And the best of our individual efforts can die with us at the end of a single lifetime.
Science is the one human activity that is truly progressive. The body of positive knowledge is transmitted from generation to generation.
The sequoias belong to the silences of the milleniums. Many of them have seen a hundred human generations rise, give off their little clamors and perish. They seem indeed to be forms of immortality standing here amoing the transitory shapes of time.
[W]ords are fine, but it has to be what a generation reads into those words.
The prayers of God's saints strengthen the unborn generation against the desolating waves of sin and evil.
Books should be cherished, like children, books are for the next generation, like children, like history.