Generation Quotes

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Every old man complains of the growing depravity of the world, of the petulance and insolence of the rising generation. He recounts the decency and… — Lyndon B. Johnson
I grew up with that completely fictive idea of motherhood, where the mother never strayed from the kitchen. All the women in my books are… — A. S. Byatt
We must work together to save and strengthen Social Security not just for my father's generation but also for my daughters' generation. — John Thune
Countless people...will hate the New World Order...and will die protesting against it...we have to bear in mind the distress of a generation or so of… — H.G. Wells
There are only two possible explanations as to how life arose: Spontaneous generation arising to evolution or a supernatural creative act of God.... There is… — George Wald
Most modern biologists, having reviewed with satisfaction the downfall of the spontaneous generation hypothesis, yet unwilling to accept the alternative belief in special creation, are… — George Wald
One has only to contemplate the magnitude of this task to concede that the spontaneous generation of a living organism is impossible. Yet here we… — George Wald
The idea of spontaneous generation of life in its present form is therefore highly improbable even to the scale of the billions of years during… — Ilya Prigogine
The whole blame goes to the parents. They have lived as ambitious beings; they have destroyed themselves. Now they go on giving their heritage to… — Rajneesh
The debt that each generation owes to the past, it must pay to the future. — Abigail Scott Duniway
It is important to make the best out of every generation. — Forest Whitaker
He doesn't translate well into our generation. — Donald Sutherland
It's hard for the modern generation to understand Thoreau, who lived beside a pond but didn't own water skis or a snorkel. — Loudon Wainwright III
If I had ever, in any medium, seen any researcher or popularizer refer even once to any supposedly ay-producing circumstance as the proper hormone balance,… — Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
My final remark to young women and men going into experimental science is that they should pay little attention to the speculative physics ideas of… — Martin Lewis Perl
Yet as I cast my eye over the whole course of science I behold instances of false science, even more pretentious and popular than that… — Arthur Lynch
In every generation the number of the righteous is small. Be sure you are among them. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
God provides the men and women needed for each generation. — Mildred Cable
In general, everyone wants to work and work more. But in fact, when a young generation has sufficient capability then we should create conditions for… — Nong ?uc Manh
What I like best about baseball is the continuity. Generation after generation can follow the game and get the same satisfactions year after year and… — Dan Shaughnessy

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