Generations Quotes

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The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation;… — John Stuart Mill
It's all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date. — George Bernard Shaw
But we are living in a skeptical and, if I may use the phrase, a thought-tormented age; and sometimes I fear that this new generation,… — James Joyce
That was one of the most fundamental and sacred duties good friends and families performed for one another! They tended the flame of memory, so… — Dean Koontz
It was in Spain that [my generation] learned that one can be right and yet be beaten, that force can vanquish spirit, that there are… — Albert Camus
The difference between a politician and a statesman is that a politician thinks about the next election while the statesman think about the next generation — Hillary Clinton
My generation was secretive, brooding, ambitious, show-offy, and this generation is congenial. Totally. I imagine them walking around with GPS chips that notify them when… — Garrison Keillor
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and… — George Bernard Shaw
People are hungry for stories. It's part of our very being. Storytelling is a form of history, of immortality too. It goes from one generation… — Studs Terkel
You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation. — Brigham Young
To this generation I would say: Memorize some bit of verse of truth or beauty. — Edgar Lee Masters
It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity… — Khalil Gibran
I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an… — Allen Ginsberg
Literature is the safe and traditional vehicle through which we learn about the world and pass on values from on generation to the next. Books… — Laurie Anderson
If we could follow the slogan that says,"Turn off the TV and open a good book" we would do something of substance for a future… — Gordon B. Hinckley
In great deeds, something abides. On great fields, something stays. Forms change and pass; bodies disappear; but spirits linger, to consecrate ground for the vision-place… — Joshua Chamberlain
Any fatherâ€¦must finally give his child up to the wilderness and trust to the providence of God. It seems almost a cruelty for one generation… — Marilynne Robinson
To square the records, however, it should be said that if the Calvinist does not rise as high, he usually stays up longer. He places… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Each generation must discover its mission, fulfill it or betray it, in relative opacity. — Frantz Fanon
What's burning down is a re-creation of a period revival house patterned after a copy of a copy of a copy of a mock Tudor… — Chuck Palahniuk

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