Generation Quotes

2595 quotes by 1900 authors

It takes four angels to oversee an apocalypse: a recorder to make the book that would be scripture in the new world; a preserver to… — Chris Adrian
This faith transforms the whirlwind of despair into a warm and reviving breeze of hope. The words of a motto which a generation ago were… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
She was of the stuff of which great men's mothers are made. She was indispensable to high generation, hated at tea parties, feared in shops,… — Thomas Hardy
We had the great good fortune and shortcomings of character that marked every generation that had never seen war. — Joshua Ferris
If children were brought into the world by an act of pure reason alone, would the human race continue to exist? Would not a man… — Arthur Schopenhauer
we've produced a generation of spiritual panhandlers, begging for coins of wisdom, banging like bums on every closed door...if an old man moves into a… — Tom Robbins
Me neither,â€ Shane put in. â€œHomie donâ€™t play that.â€ â€œI wonder, sometimes, if your generation speaks English at all,â€ Amelie said. — Rachel Caine
It drops us into a vigorous current, a constant state of misguided control. The doomed generation takes a final step forward, ignoring all the signs… — Hunter S. Thompson
Thus our own age is essentially one of understanding, and on the average, perhaps, more knowledgeable than any former generation, but it is without passion.… — Soren Kierkegaard
Some kids get called 'bundles of joy' or 'slices of heaven' or 'dreams come true.' We got 'the fifty-fourth generation of DNA experiments.' Doesn't have… — James Patterson
Hip-hop gave a generation a common ground that didn't require either race to lose anything; everyone gained. — Jay-Z
What should our second generation have done, what should it do with the knowledge of the horrors of the extermination of the Jews? We should… — Bernhard Schlink
We come from a generation of people who need their TV or stereo playing all the time. These people so scared of silence. These soundaholics,… — Chuck Palahniuk
What one generation tolerates, the next generation will embrace. — John Wesley
The next generation will always surpass the previous one. It's one of the never-ending cycles in life. — Masashi Kishimoto
The question of the next generation will not be one of how to liberate the masses, but rather, how to make them love their servitude. — Aldous Huxley
Yet if there's no reason to live without a child, how could there be with one? To answer one life with a successive life is… — Lionel Shriver
I'm quite certain that if the rest of the world vanished overnight and the development of cricket were left in Australian hands, within a generation,… — Bill Bryson
Imagine the amazing good fortune of the generation that gets to see the end of the world. This is as marvelous as being there in… — Jean Baudrillard
The longest and most destructive party ever held is now into its fourth generation and still no one shows any signs of leaving. Somebody did… — Douglas Adams

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