Generation Quotes
2595 quotes by 1976 authors
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The mark of a Scot of all classes [is that] he ... remembers and cherishes the memory of his forebears, good or bad; and there…
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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Neighborhoods built up all at once change little physically over the years as a rule...[Residents] regret that the neighborhood has changed. Yet the fact is,…
— Jane Jacobs
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My generation is now the door to memory. That is why I am remembering.
— Joy Harjo
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Look at yourselves. Some of you teenagers, students. How do you think I feel and I belong to a generation ahead of you - how…
— Malcolm X
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My mother told me two things constantly. One was to be a lady, and the other was to be independent. The study of law was…
— Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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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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For as long as I can remember, I have been inspired by the achievement of our Founding Fathers. They set forth principles that have endured…
— Sonia Sotomayor
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I want to work with the teachers' union. But as I said out there, we have to put the kids first and we are letting…
— Meg Whitman
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Who said that justice is what you imagine? Can you be sure that you know it when you see it, that you will live long…
— Mark Helprin
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I had a feeling that my generation-and me, also-we were naked. We did not belong to anything.
— Aharon Appelfeld
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As for AIDS, it's a plague. We are human, we get plagues. They come along every so often, kill off two thirds of the population;…
— Larry Niven
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To be the people of God without regeneration, is as impossible as to be the children of men without generation.
— Richard Baxter
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We have no ethical obligation to preserve the different breeds of livestock produced through selective breeding One generation and out. We have no problems with…
— Wayne Pacelle
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From the Battle of Trenton to the Argonne, Marines have won foremost honors in war, and in the long eras of tranquility at home, generation…
— John A. Lejeune
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The creation of a world view is the work of a generation rather than of an individual, but we each of us, for better or…
— John Dos Passos
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We must follow the wisdom of the Brundtland Report. We must pursue development that meets the needs of the present generation without compromising the ability…
— Ban Ki-moon
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Those of us who have been privileged to receive education, skills, and experiences and even power must be role models for the next generation of…
— Wangari Maathai
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In school, kids never really looked at me a different way because I think it was a different generation; they didnt really know who my…
— Enrique Iglesias
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Before (the Palestinians) very eyes we are possessing the land and the villages where they and their ancestors have lived We are the generation of…
— Moshe Dayan
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Two of the greatest hungers in our world today are the hunger for spirituality and the hunger for social change. The connection between the two…
— Jim Wallis
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