Generation Quotes

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NEW RULE: 'Kidiots' Leave the children behind. At least until they learn something. A new study has shown that half of American high schools agree… — Bill Maher
I am increasingly persuaded that the earth belongs exclusively to the living and that one generation has no more right to bind another to it's… — Thomas Jefferson
Power," Nita heard her father say behind her. "Creation. Forces from before time. This is--this business is for saints, not children!" Even saints have to… — Diane Duane
It has been said that each generation must win its own struggle to be free. -Robert F. Kennedy — Naomi Wolf
If we turn our heads and look away and hope that it will all disappear then they will - all of them, an entire generation… — George Clooney
You are all a lost generation," Gertrude Stein said to Hemingway. We weren't lost. We knew where we were, all right, but we wouldn't go… — James Thurber
But complex animals had obtained their adaptive flexibility at some cost--they had traded one dependency for another. It was no longer necessary to change their… — Michael Crichton
And then it occurs to me. They are frightened. In me, they see their own daughters, just as ignorant, just as unmindful of all the… — Amy Tan
The arts are not just a nice thing to have or to do if there is free time or if one can afford it. Rather,… — Michelle Obama
Our generation is realistic, for we have come to know man as he really is. After all, man is that being who invented the gas… — Viktor E. Frankl
It's always been the children who have saved the universe from the previous generation and remade the world in their own image. ---Carl — Diane Duane
Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great, you can be that generation — Nelson Mandela
Ours was a generation grown up to find all gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken" -- — F. Scott Fitzgerald
You are all a lost generation. [with credit to Gertrude Stein] — Ernest Hemingway
What makes the voice pathetic is that it doesn't know what kind of people it's reaching. Us. No one hears it, except us. This Age… — Tony Kushner
A generation which ignores history has no past â€” and no future. — Robert A. Heinlein
We don't have a great war in our generation, or a great depression, but we do, we have a great war of the spirit. We… — Chuck Palahniuk
A common lament of the World War II generation is the absence today of personal responsibility — Tom Brokaw
When old age shall this generation waste, Thou shalt remain, in midst of other woe Than ours, a friend to man, to whom thou say'st,… — John Keats
The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the Supreme Being as his father, in the womb of a virgin, will be… — Thomas Jefferson

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