Generation Quotes

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This packrat has learned that what the next generation will value most is not what we owned, but the evidence of who we were and… — Ellen Goodman
If our economies are to flourish, if global poverty is to be banished, and if the well-being of the world's people enhanced - not just… — Gordon Brown
The longest and most destructive party ever held is now into its fourth generation and still no one shows any signs of leaving. The problem… — Douglas Adams
The fiery trials through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the latest generation. — Abraham Lincoln
The older generation had greater respect for land than science. But we live in an age when science, more than soil, has become the provider… — Shimon Peres
Everybody's saturated with the marketing hype of next-generation consoles. They are wonderful, but the truth is that they are as powerful as a high end… — John Carmack
German militarism and Nazism have devastated twice in our generation the lands of German neighbors. — James F. Byrnes
Standing in the nordic nook of the kitchen, I can gaze down at the flimsy-limbed joggers heading south towards the Park. It's nearly as bad… — Martin Amis
I still have a suspicion of charity and think the state has a role to play in many areas. And although for most of the… — Kazuo Ishiguro
My friends and I took songwriting very, very seriously. My hero was and still is Bob Dylan, but also people like Leonard Cohen and Joni… — Kazuo Ishiguro
A generation that has taken a beating is always followed by a generation that deals one. — Otto von Bismarck
The Revolution won't happen with guns, rather it will happen incrementally, year by year, generation by generation. We will gradually infiltrate their educational institutions and… — Max Horkheimer
I belong to that generation who, as students, had before their eyes, and were limited by, a horizon consisting of Marxism, phenomenology and existentialism. For… — Michel Foucault
If the world is to contain a public space, it cannot be erected for one generation and planned for the living only; it must transcend… — Hannah Arendt
We may be the generation that sees Armageddon. — Ronald Reagan
Every generation renews itself in its own way; there's always a reaction against whatever is standard. — Sol LeWitt
For a generation and more, the government has sought to meet our needs by multiplying its bureaucracy. Washington has taken too much in taxes from… — George McGovern
A man must be sacrificed now and again to provide for the next generation of men. — Amy Lowell
The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep somewhere else another stops. The same is true of… — Samuel Beckett
A writer of story books! What kind of business in life-what mode of glorifying God, or being serviceable to mankind in his day and generation-may… — Nathaniel Hawthorne

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