Generations Quotes

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All in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and dedicated to flight, I was disappointed by the wrinkle in history that had… — Neil Armstrong
If you watch animals objectively for any length of time, you're driven to the conclusion that their main aim in life is to pass on… — David Attenborough
Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But many in the world lack… — Margaret Atwood
Every generation always thinks it was better before, and I think people have been saying this for probably thousands of years. — Paul Auster
I'm an independent. I'm a centrist. A new generation is arriving that has grown up with a multiplicity of choice in every aspect of their… — John Avlon
I don't need fame any more. People are less interested in me in terms of celebrity. I'm happy to see a new generation being the… — Dan Aykroyd
Even the most wretched individual of our present society could not exist and develop without the cumulative social efforts of countless generations. — Mikhail Bakunin
Everyone always tells you that you're the only one that can do this or that role right, and if you say no, they go to… — Christian Bale
In a single generation, the Internet has given to virtually every person on the face of the earth the ability to communicate with fellow human… — Bob Barr
Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of… — John Adams
I think my whole generation's mission is to kill the cliche. — Beck
Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of… — Joseph Addison
Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very… — Joseph Addison
Each generation, as it seeks to advance the common good, must ask anew: 'What are the requirements that governments may reasonably impose upon citizens, and… — Pope Benedict XVI
You've got to have an ego as big as Mars to want to think that you, of all people, are better than anyone else to… — Jello Biafra
My parents were married for sixty-five years, and I was married for about ten minutes, my first year at Yale Drama School. Something, somehow, didn't… — Lewis Black
The thing that makes my generation The Greatest is our ability to hang out. We're spectacular at it. If you take somebody from my generation… — Lewis Black
Rock is young music, it is youth oriented. It just speaks for a generation. — Ruben Blades
Mine is the first generation able to contemplate the possibility that we may live our entire lives without going to war or sending our children… — Tony Blair
Nothing is more singular about this generation than its addiction to music. — Allan Bloom

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