Generation Quotes

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Every high school has its Romeo and Juliet, one tragic couple. So does every generation. — Chuck Palahniuk
The WWII generation shares so many common values: duty, honor, country, personal responsibility and the marriage vow " For better or for worse--it was the… — Tom Brokaw
A classic,' suggested Anthony, 'is a successful book that has survived the reaction of the next period or generation. Then it's safe, like a style… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
In the human heart one generation of passions follows another; from the ashes of one springs the spark of the next. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Oh, no-" They weren't even on the runway, and Jonah's father was already immersed in his BlackBerry. "Remember those 'Live Large with the Wiz Generation'… — Gordon Korman
It was funny how the old practices always came around again. It was the rhythm of human enterprise to invent and worship some new approach,… — Ann Brashares
Katherine Kenton remains among the generation of women who feel that the most sincere form of flattery is the male erection. — Chuck Palahniuk
What you see at fight club is a generation of men raised by women. — Chuck Palahniuk
Maybe children just want whatever it is they don't get. And then they grow up and give their children what they wanted, be it silence… — Laura Moriarty
This book is to be neither an accusation nor a confession, and least of all an adventure, for death is not an adventure to those… — Erich Maria Remarque
I'm no military expert, and these figures might not be exactly right,' I said. 'But as best I can tell, we've launched 114 Tomahawk cruise… — Greg Mortenson
Born in a generation that thinks cynical and disenchanted is cool, sometimes I'm a little off the beaten track. — Karen Marie Moning
We are all fixing what is broken. It is the task of a lifetime. We'll leave much unfinished for the next generation. — Abraham Verghese
[Y]our agricultural revolution is not an event like the Trojan War, isolated in the distant past and without relevance to your lives today. The work… — Daniel Quinn
The bartenders are the regular band of Jack, and the heavenly drummer who looks up to the sky with blue eyes, with a beard, is… — Jack Kerouac
But the young educated adults of the 90s -- who were, of course, the children of the same impassioned infidelities and divorces Mr. Updike wrote… — David Foster Wallace
Every generation wants to be the last. Every generation hates the next trend in music they can't understand. We hate to give up those reins… — Chuck Palahniuk
The job of every generation is to discover the flaws of the one that came before it. That's part of growing up, figuring out all… — Justine Larbalestier
â€ŽA general State education is a mere contrivance for moulding people to be exactly like one another; and as the mould in which it casts… — John Stuart Mill
Yet, there was once a king worthy of that name. That king was Arthur. It is paramount disgrace of this evil generation that the name… — Stephen R. Lawhead

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