Generation Quotes

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But why should not the New Englander try new adventures - not lay so much stress on his grain, his potato and grass crop, and… — Henry David Thoreau
A generation ago there were a thousand men to every opportunity, while today there are a thousand opportunities to every man. — Henry Ford II
Boris Vasilievich was the only top-class player of his generation who played gambits regularly and without fear ... Over a period of 30 years he… — Garry Kasparov
We are the first generation of human beings to have substantial insights into the origin of our cosmos and of human life in it. — Arthur Peacocke
A whole new generation is looking at the videos, and going to the video shop and buying the re-release of the complete trilogy, which you… — Peter Mayhew
A generation which has passed through the shop has absorbed standards and ambitions which are not of those of spaciousness, and cannot get away from… — Alexander Herzen
When today's generation reads Jack's books or they listen to the music created by some of us, I believe that they see there is a… — David Amram
Our ideals, laws and customs should be based on the proposition that each generation in turn becomes the custodian rather than the absolute owner of… — Alberto Moravia
I was raised in that generation where it was all 'Women can have it all!' and I don't think you can. I think something falls… — Drew Barrymore
Painting is traditional but for me that doesn't mean the academy. I felt a need to paint; I love painting. It was something natural -… — Gerhard Richter
And so you [young Americans]need to be the Idea Generation. The generation who's always thinking on the cutting edge, who's wondering how to create and… — Barack Obama
The incredible story of progress that is America has always been built by those who ask why, what if, and why not. Our schools must… — Barack Obama
We learned in the university to consider Wordsworth and Keats as Romantics. They were only a generation apart, but Wordsworth didn't even read Keats's book… — Thom Gunn
No generation has a free hold on this earth. All we have is a life tenancy-with a full repairing lease. — Margaret Thatcher
Some urge we do nothing because we can't be certain how bad the (climate) problem might become or they presume the worst effects are most… — John McCain
This generation may either be the last to exist in any semblance of a civilised world or that it will be the first to have… — Richard St. Barbe Baker
My generation's parents told their children, 'Become an accountant, a lawyer, or an engineer; that will give you a solid foothold in the middle class.'… — Daniel H. Pink
Text messaging is just the most recent focus of people's anxiety; what people are really worried about is a new generation gaining control of what… — David Crystal
The notion of dream interpretation far antedates the birth of psychoanalysis, and probably served an important function in most, if not all, historical societies. In… — Neel Burton
It requires but a very small glance of thought to perceive, that although laws made in one generation often continue in force through succeeding generations,… — Thomas Paine

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