Generation Quotes

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Freedom can never be taken for granted. Each generation must safeguard it and extend it. Your parents and elders sacrificed much so that you should… — Nelson Mandela
He credited her with a number of virtues, of the existence of which her conduct and conversation had given but limited indications. -But, then, lovers… — Lucas Malet
So what will define greatness for your generation? I believe it is to use the knowledge that you have earned here to find ways, not… — Carly Fiorina
There is a need in every generation to study the past, to absorb its spirit, to preserve its messages...it's a collaboration of ourselves and our… — Christopher Tunnard
I'm like a Sid Vicious for a new generation — Avril Lavigne
Future generation is the most important thing. — Confucius
Seeds carry life from generation to generation without end. Through the seeds speak the voices of the ancestors. Each time we plant a seed, we… — Kenny Ausubel
Affection is the most important thing. And the quality of affection - with your friends, your lovers, your family. But particularly for your own generation. — Allen Ginsberg
History will have to recordThat the greatest tragedy of this period of social transitionWas not the vitriolic words and the violent actions of the bad… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
This scepticism is the same scepticism I heard a generation ago in the USSR when few thought that a democratic transformation behind the iron curtain… — Natan Sharansky
What this generation was bred to at television's knees was not wisdom, but cynicism. — Pauline Kael
I believe, if done correctly, eliminating Saddam and liberating Iraq could be the 'Normandy Invasion' or 'fall of the Berlin Wall' of our generation... the… — Pete Hegseth
The few surviving Armenians no longer ask to go home. They do not ask for restitution. They ask simply to have the memory of their… — Chris Hedges
The information that is passed from person to person and from generation to generation is the primary factor that gives humans a competitive advantage over… — Keith Henson
The future is not a gift: it is an achievement. Every generation helps make its own future. This is the essential challenge of the present — Robert Kennedy
There has been something crude and heartless and unfeeling in our haste to suceed and be great. Our thought has been 'Let every man look… — Woodrow Wilson
I cannot but think it an evil sign of a people when their houses are built to last for one generation only. — John Ruskin
Leonard Pitts, Jr. is the most insightful and inspiring columnist of his generation. — Tavis Smiley
Education is the civil rights issue of our generation. — Arne Duncan
Today 25 million Texans can celebrate our liberty, and honor the founding generation of Texans who secured it for us. Happy Texas Independence Day, and… — John Cornyn

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