Generation Quotes

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If I had my way, I would declare a moratorium on public preaching of 'the plan of salvation' in America for one to two years.… — Paris Reidhead
Gay marriage is inevitable. The next generation, they get it. It is just a matter of time before it becomes a reality. — Brad Pitt
Every generation blames the generation before them. — Mutabaruka
My generation of radicals and breakers-down never found anything to take the place of the old virtues of work and courage and the old graces… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
If we could have but one generation of properly born, trained, educated, and healthy children, a thousand other problems of government would vanish. — Herbert Hoover
I wonder whether any other generation has seen such astounding revolutions of data and values as those through which we have lived. Scarcely anything material… — Winston Churchill
At what point, 2,000 years on from the life of Jesus, do we need a refresher course? Another 2,000 years? Imagine 100,000 yearsâ€™ time â€“… — Trevor Treharne
Dear young people, let me now ask you a question. What will you leave to the next generation? Are you building your lives on firm… — Pope Benedict XVI
Let the future say of our generation that we sent forth mighty currents of hope and that we worked together to heal the world. — Jeffrey Sachs
In todayâ€™s world of fear and uncertainty, every child should have one class period a day to dive within himself and experience the field of… — David Lynch
Everything in life is drawing, if you want. Drawing is quintessential to knowing the self. Art that survives from one generation to the next is… — Richard Tuttle
When I die, I will no be guilty of having left a generation of girls behind thinking that anyone can tend to their emotional health… — Ntozake Shange
In the poorest countries...it is women who are the key to breaking out of poverty...and preparing another generation for...leading their countries into real security. — Queen Noor of Jordan
Is it possible to covet a much longer life for one's self and be as devoted to the well-being of the next generation? It's a… — Leon Kass
We are enmeshed in a lineage that came from somewhere and is going to make way for the next generation. — Leon Kass
Each generation's job is to question what parents accept on faith, to explore possibilities, and adapt the last generation's system of values for a new… — Frank Pittman
In a lot of ways I was a generation ahead of my generation; I had a working mother wheneveryone elseâ€™s mother was staying at home. — Patricia C. Wrede
History should not be written to make the present generation feel good but to remind us that human affairs are complicated. — Margaret MacMillan
It is pure illusion to think that an opinion which passes down from century to century, from generation to generation, may not be entirely false. — Pierre Bayle
What our Seventh Generation will have is a consequence of our actions today. — Winona LaDuke

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