Generation Quotes

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The current generation now sees everything clearly, it marvels at the errors, it laughs at the folly of its ancestors, not seeing that this chronicle… — Nikolai Gogol
Let us admit, without bitterness, that the individual has his distinct interests and can, without felony, stipulate for those interests and defend them. The present… — Victor Hugo
Child psychologists have demonstrated that our minds are actually constructed by these thousands of tiny interactions during the first few years of life. We aren't… — Sidney Poitier
The job facing American votersâ€¦ in the days and years to come is to determine which hearts, minds and souls command those qualities best suited… — Aberjhani
So I simply don't buy the concept of "Generation X" as the "lost generation." I see too many good kids out there, kids who are… — Johnny Cash
I always want to tell these young idealists that the world is not as dangerous as many in the older generation want them to believe...The… — Jonathan Kozol
Those times are over and gone, and good riddance to them, too. We were hopelessly high-spirited. Now we're the tick-waisted generation, dragging along our children… — Gregory Maguire
We now demand glamour and fast-flowing dramatic action. A generation of Christians reared among push buttons and automatic machines is impatient of slower and less… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Science, the largest religion of the twentieth century, had become tarnished by images of exploding space shuttles, crack babies, and a generation of complacent Americans… — Jim Butcher
I think perhaps we want a more conscious life. We're tired of drudging and sleeping and dying. We're tired of seeing just a few people… — Sinclair Lewis
Until recently each generation found it more expedient to plead guilty to the charge of being young and ignorant, easier to take the punishment meted… — Maya Angelou
Itâ€™s a sort of furtiveness â€¦ Like we were a generation of furtive. You know, with an inner knowledge thereâ€™s no use flaunting on that… — Jack Kerouac
We paid for this instead of a generation of health insurance, or an alternative energy grid, or a brand-new system of roads and highways. With… — Matt Taibbi
A lot of my generation are living out the un-lived lives of our mothers. — Gloria Steinem
What one generation finds ridiculous, the next accepts; and the third shudders when it looks back on what the first did. — Peter Singer
War always reaches the depths of horror because of idiots who perpetuate terror from generation to generation under the pretext of vengeance. — Guy Sajer
Then I celebrated my Wall of Books. I counted the volumes on my twenty-foot-long modernist bookshelf to make sure none had been misplaced or used… — Gary Shteyngart
There was nothing dishonourable in not being blown about by every little modern wind. Better to have worth, to entrench, to be an oak of… — John le Carre
What the younger generation didn't understand was that the grass was greenest where it's watered.. — Nicholas Sparks
We are the dead. Our only true life is in the future. We shall take part in it as handfuls of dust and splinters of… — George Orwell

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