Generation Quotes

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The awareness that health is dependent upon habits that we control makes us the first generation in history that to a large extent determines its… — Jimmy Carter
For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are devoted to the… — Jimmy Carter
Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
I hate organized religion. I think you have to love thy neighbor as thyself. I think you have to pick your own God and be… — Julia Child
In my generation, except for a few people who'd gone into banking or nursing or something like that, middle-class women didn't have careers. You were… — Julia Child
You know, I think of the global economy as an inverted triangle, resting on the shoulders of the American consumer. And if the American consumer… — Hillary Clinton
Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is… — Noam Chomsky
What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation? — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors. — Emile M. Cioran
A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation. — James Freeman Clarke
The Constitution of the United States was made not merely for the generation that then existed, but for posterity- unlimited, undefined, endless, perpetual posterity. — Henry Clay
When the target audience is American teenage kids, you can have problems. My generation prized really fine acting and writing. Sometimes you have to go… — John Cleese
I feel like I'm part of a generation of people who are stuck in the past and are really self-absorbed. I mean, we're actually taking… — Diablo Cody
Sacrifice still exists everywhere, and everywhere the elect of each generation suffers for the salvation of the rest. — Henri Frederic Amiel
Our generation has an incredible amount of realism, yet at the same time it loves to complain and not really change. Because, if it does… — Tori Amos
I think a number of the leaders are, whether you like it or not, in the hip-hop generation. And when they understand enough, they'll do… — Maya Angelou
[Marxism will] in a generation or so [go] into the limbo of most heresies, but meanwhile it will have poisoned the Russian Revolution. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
More than any other nation on Earth, America has constantly drawn strength and spirit from wave after wave of immigrants. In each generation, they have… — William J. Clinton
It says something about our country that people around the world are willing to leave their homes and leave their families and risk everything to… — George W. Bush
He was a parade all by himself, a burst of dazzle and jingle, Santa Claus drinking his whiskey straight and groaning with a bellyache... Babe… — Jimmy Cannon

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