Generation Quotes

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The little religion that I have clung to-that what matters most is the continuity of life, and its improvement from one generation to another. — David O. Selznick
Pop artists deal with the lowly trivia of possessions and equipment that the present generation is lugging along with it on its safari into the… — J. G. Ballard
[I was advised] to read Jordan's 'Cours d'analyse'; and I shall never forget the astonishment with which I read that remarkable work, the first inspiration… — G. H. Hardy
Many male habitues of massage parlors, like Talese, did not like solitary masturbation; in the parlance of the younger generation, it was a "downer." And… — Gay Talese
No individual and no generation has had enough personal experience to ignore the vast experience of the human race that is called history. Yet most… — Thomas Sowell
What is education? Properly speaking, there is no such thing as education. Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
California has often led the country, indeed the world, in the technology, consumption, trends, lifestyles, and of course, mass entertainment. It is where the car… — Fareed Zakaria
The mythos-over-logos argument points to the fact that each child is born as ignorant as any caveman. What keeps the world from reverting to the… — Robert M. Pirsig
Nevertheless, if you ask me, most people have children just as their own enthusiasm about life begins to wane. A child allows us to revisit… — Chuck Palahniuk
I ... express a wish that you may, in your generation, be fit to compare to a candle; that you may, like it, shine as… — Michael Faraday
I thought I would write something that would make some people uncomfortable. . . . What intrigued me, I think, was the idea of women… — Wendy Wasserstein
[I was] particularly eager to give voice to the women of my mother's place and generation, who grew up in turn-of-the-century, privileged New England households,… — Tina Howe
Our senior officers knew the war was going badly. Yet they bowed to groupthink pressure and kept up pretenses. ...Many of my generation, the career… — Colin Powell
Unless a reincarnationist is willing to say there was a 'first generation' of souls created with the first humans, he is exposed to absurdity by… — Christopher Hitchens
Why are entire flocks of industrial birds dying at once? And what about the people eating those birds? Just the other day, one of the… — Jonathan Safran Foer
I think I know what is bothering the students. I think that what we are up against is a generation that is by no means… — George Wald
The flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation. Neither are they transmitted by book learning. — Ezra Pound
The 'Instagram Generation' now experiences the present as an anticipated memory — Daniel Kahneman
I've come to believe that God, in His wisdom, allows martyrdom in every generation in part because, without them, the reality of Christ's death for… — Mark Galli
Brands' use of social media is not a matter of yes or no. It is simply a matter of how and when. The next generation… — Martin Lindstrom

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