Generation Quotes

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Ebola is not just a health crisis. Across West Africa, a generation of young people risks being lost to an economic catastrophe, — Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
The Don Quixote of one generation may live to hear himself called the savior of society by the next. — James Russell Lowell
Simonides, a poet famous in his generation, is, I think, author of the oldest satire that is now extant, and, as some say, of the… — Joseph Addison
I was in a Printing-house in Hell, and saw the method in which knowledge is transmitted from generation to generation. — William Blake
We need not just a new generation of leadership but a new gender of leadership — William J. Clinton
I have seen that Man moves over with each new generation into a bigger body, more awful, more reverent and more free than he has… — Gerald Stanley Lee
A creator is so completely contemporary that he has the appearance of being ahead of his generation. — Gertrude Stein
My big advantage was to have my father accept me as first-generation. — Mukesh Ambani
Each generation imagines that we're all going to hell. Each generation goes through a little hell and comes out heat tempered and better than before. — Paul Harvey
Every generation wants to be the last. — Chuck Palahniuk
Every generation is a secret society and has incommunicable enthusiasms, tastes, and interests which are a mystery both to its predecessors and to posterity. — John Jay Chapman
A whole generation of writers dined out on the dialectic between original cultures and their culture by "progress. — Anatole Broyard
The Olympic Games are not just ordinary world championships but a quadrennial festival of universal youth. . . celebrated by each succeeding generation as it… — Pierre de Coubertin
Martin Luther King challenged the conscience of my generation, and his words and his legacy continue to move generations to action today at home and… — John F. Kerry
Perhaps I was born too early. I was more the painter of your generation than of mine. — Paul Cezanne
Parents accept their obsolescence with the best grace they can muster. . . they do all they can to make it easy for the younger… — Christopher Lasch
We, the generation that faces the next century, can add the solemn injunction ''If we don't do the impossible, we shall be faced with the… — Petra Kelly
Blues for me is having things not go your way - life, love, job, money, ... It is not about the oppression of my ancestors,… — Robert Cray
The younger generation of performers really enjoy their success. Its like they know their moment is here right now and probably won't be here in… — Sheryl Crow
Some of the lowest-paid workers in this nation are people that we ask to watch the next generation of Americans. We do a better job… — Christopher Dodd

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