Every Generation Quotes
130 quotes by 119 authors
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Every generation always thinks it was better before, and I think people have been saying this for probably thousands of years.
— Paul Auster
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Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.
— Lewis Mumford
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Festival of the impassioned efforts and manifold ambitions of all forms of youthful activity of every generation springing from the threshold of life.
— Pierre de Coubertin
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Every generation needs regeneration
— Charles Spurgeon
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It is important to make the best out of every generation.
— Forest Whitaker
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In every generation the number of the righteous is small. Be sure you are among them.
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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Since biological change occurs slowly and cultural changes occur in every generation, it is futile to try to explain the fleeting phenomena of culture by…
— Robert Lowie
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To some extent, this urge to break out of the ordinary is present in every generation. Part of being young is desiring something beyond everyday…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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Every generation renews itself in its own way; there's always a reaction against whatever is standard.
— Sol LeWitt
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As the Constitution endures, persons in every generation can invoke its principles in their own search for greater freedom.
— Anthony Kennedy
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Every generation faces a challenge. In the 1930s, it was the creation of Social Security. In the 1960s, it was putting a man on the…
— Eileen Claussen
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Every one expects to go further than his father went; every one expects to be better than he was born and every generation has one…
— William Allen White
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Throughout our history each and every generation has expanded upon the freedoms won by their parents and grandparents. Each and every generation has removed some…
— Michael Bloomberg
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Every generation thinks that they invented sex.
— Andy Grove
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Truly every generation discovers the world all new again and knows it can improve it.
— Herbert Hoover
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Every generation has the right to build its own world out of the materials of the past, cemented by the hopes of the future.
— Herbert Hoover
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First of all, in any sport where you can measure distance, height speed and all of that, you see how athletes have changed their sport…
— Andre Agassi
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Every generation welcomes the pirates from the last.
— Lawrence Lessig
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It dawned on me with blinding brightness. I realized: I had jumped into another rare kind of stratosphere - one that only a handful of…
— Jesse Owens
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When I get my hands on painting materials I don't give a damn about other people's painting... every generation must start again afresh.
— Maurice de Vlaminck
Who Wrote These Every Generation Quotes
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