Generation Quotes

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Festival of the impassioned efforts and manifold ambitions of all forms of youthful activity of every generation springing from the threshold of life. — Pierre de Coubertin
What I tell these young people is, the world is not as dangerous as the older generation would like you to believe. Anyone I know… — Jonathan Kozol
Is this the generation of love? Hot blood, hot thoughts and hot deeds? Why, they are vipers. Is love a generation of vipers? — William Shakespeare
What are your choices? Whom are your choices for? Not just for yourself. Chose now whom you will serve, and that choice is going to… — Edith Schaeffer
As I am writing, another illustration of ye generation of hills proposed above comes into my mind. Milk is as uniform a liquor as ye… — Isaac Newton
In a generation or two, or maybe sooner, young golfers of true sporting instinct will wonder why all this handling of the ball is necessary.… — Robert Harris
It's one of nature's way that we often feel closer to distant generations than to the generation immediately preceding us. — Igor Stravinsky
Predominant opinions are generally the opinions of the generation that is vanishing. — Benjamin Disraeli
A great person is one who affects the mind of their generation. — Benjamin Disraeli
The economic benefits of investing in children have been extensively documented. Investing fully in children today will ensure the well-being and productivity of future generations… — Carol Bellamy
It is always self-defeating to pretend to the style of a generation younger than your own; it simply erases your own experience in history. — Renata Adler
This is the first generation in all of recorded history that can do something about the scourge of poverty. We have the means to do… — Hubert H. Humphrey
The best practical advice I can give to the present generation is to practice the virtue which the Christians call love. — Bertrand Russell
We are here to witness the creation and to abet it. We are here to notice each thing so each thing gets noticed. Together we… — Annie Dillard
With reference to the younger generation..."If the experience of their exhausted, insomniac, dispirited elders makes them decide they'd prefer not to go straight from the… — Anna Quindlen
The known is finite, the unknown infinite; spiritually we find ourselves on a tiny island in the middle of a boundless ocean of the inexplicable.… — Thomas Huxley
The Beat Generation, that was a vision that we had, John Clellon Holmes and I, and Allen Ginsberg in an even wilder way, in the… — Jack Kerouac
Every old man complains of the growing depravity of the world, of the petulance and insolence of the rising generation. — Samuel Johnson
It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their conviction. I wish I could teach the sad young of this mealy generation… — John Ciardi
Each generation criticizes the unconscious assumptions made by its parent. It may assent to them, but it brings them out in the open. — Alfred North Whitehead

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