Behinds Quote by Augustus William Hare

The generation of men is like that of leaves. The wind scatters one year's leaves on the ground, but the forest burgeons and and…

— The Iliad

Generations of men are like the leaves. In winter, winds blow them down to earth, but then, when spring season comes again, the budding…

— Anonymous

A generation of men is like a generation of leaves; the wind scatters some leaves upon the ground, while others the burgeoning wood brings…

— Homer

a generation that cannot endure boredom will be a generation of little men, of men unduly divorced from the slow process of nature, of…

— Bertrand Russell

So generation after generation of men in love with pain and passivity serve out their time in the Zone, silent, redolent of faded sperm,…

— Thomas Pynchon

Why does every generation have to think that he lives in the period with the greatest turbulence?

— Henry Mintzberg

Men get tired of everything, of heaven no less than of hell; and that all history is nothing but a record of the oscillations…

— George Bernard Shaw

This generation has come into the world fatally late for some enterprises. Go where we will on the surface of things, men have been…

— Henry David Thoreau

Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do not want to do.

— Eric Hoffer

“On typical days, (dust) is simply irritating. On Roid Rage days, it made me want to stomp down to the highway, pull drivers out…

— Augusten Burroughs

We're the generation that tried to grow up too fast

— Ritu Ghatourey

Our lives feel like these epochs, but really, we are dust in the wind.

— Justin Vernon