Generation Quotes

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As a first generation Jewish American, I have witnessed firsthand Jewish immigrants who have come to this Nation in order to create a better life… — Jan Schakowsky
Men develop ideas and systems of explanation by absorbing past knowledge and critiquing and superseding it. Women, ignorant of their own history [do] not know… — Gerda Lerner
For us, terrorism remains the great evil of our time, and the war against this evil, our generationâ€™s great cause â€¦ There is no middle… — Richard Perle
We all stand on the shoulders of the past generation. — John C. Maxwell
As a people, we have the problem of making our forests outlast this generation, or iron outlast this century, and our coal the next; not… — William Howard Taft
Today, there is a whole generation of Christian men who are laughing at things that ought to make them weep, and not a few of… — R. Kent Hughes
Sincerity is a Christian virtue, as is honesty about our struggles. But my generation needs to realize that Christianity is more than chic fragility, endless… — Kevin DeYoung
Hardly any generation wants to take the whole of the last generation, it just wants to take its best bits. — Ninette de Valois
My special cause, the one that alerts my interest and quickens the pace of my life, is to preserve the wildflowers and native plants that… — Lady Bird Johnson
Today's environment is beginning to threaten today's organizations, finding them seriously deficient in their nervous system design... The degree of coordination, perception, rational adaptation, etc.,… — Douglas Engelbart
On my US tour maybe three out of 30 shows there was an Elvis impersonator in the crowd but that's it. I usually get younger… — Lisa Marie Presley
As patients and consumers, we are better informed today about our health care than any previous generation. — Patricia Hewitt
It's very important for men to look downward, to the next generation — James Hillman
Wisdom is a living stream, not an icon to be preserved in a museum. Only when a practitioner finds the spring of wisdom in his… — Nhat Hanh
To me, life is like the back nine in golf. Sometimes you play better on the back nine. You may not be stronger, but hopefully… — Clint Eastwood
Industrial opportunities are going to stem more from the biological sciences than from chemistry and physics. I see biology as being the greatest area of… — George Brown, Jr.
No generation has a right to contract debts greater than can be paid off during the course of its own existence. — Thomas Jefferson
The constructive intellect [genius] produces thoughts, sentences, poems, plans, designs, systems. It is the generation of the mind, the marriage of thought with nature. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The character of a generation is moulded by personal character. — Brooke Westcott
There is a movement bubbling up that goes beyond cynicism and celebrates a new way of living, a generation that stops complaining about the church… — Shane Claiborne

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