Generations Quotes

3253 quotes by 2229 authors

Arab children, Corn ears of the future, You will break our chains, Kill the opium in our heads, Kill the illusions. Arab children, Don't read… — Nizar Qabbani
Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations. Books, the oldest and the best, stand naturally and… — Henry David Thoreau
What a mystery blood was -- how did a tiny gesture, a tome of voice, endure through generations like the harder verities of flesh? He… — Diana Gabaldon
From space, astronauts can see people making love as a tiny speck of light. Not light, exactly, but a glow that could be confused for… — Jonathan Safran Foer
We make no apology then for raising our voices loud to a world that is ripening in sin the lord has said,â€ Say nothing but… — Spencer W. Kimball
Maybe that was the definition of life everlasting: the belief that the next generation would carry your work forward. — Ann Patchett
Give me just one generation of youth, and I'll transform the whole world. — Vladimir Lenin
And is not peace, in the last analysis, basically a matter of human rights -- the right to live out our lives without fear of… — John F. Kennedy
Men make their own history, but they do not make it just as they please; they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves,… — Karl Marx
I donâ€™t know how to save the world. I donâ€™t have the answers or The Answer. I hold no secret knowledge as to how to… — Leonard Peltier
So that the new generation that will be born can enjoy happiness. To pay the cost we will have to shoulder corpses and cross a… — Hiromu Arakawa
There is a delight in the hardy life of the open. There are no words that can tell the hidden spirit of the wilderness, that… — Theodore Roosevelt
Cultural legacies are powerful forces. They have deep roots and long lives. They persist, generation after generation, virtually intact, even as the economic and social… — Malcolm Gladwell
The adolescents of my generation, greedy for life, forgot in body and soul about their hopes for the future until reality taught them that tomorrow… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The sequoias belong to the silences of the milleniums. Many of them have seen a hundred human generations rise, give off their little clamors and… — Edwin Markham
We must begin thinking like a river if we are to leave a legacy of beauty and life for future generations. — David R. Brower
The Lord has told me that the last generation before His final coming will consist of His choicest children since the creation of the earth.… — Chris Heimerdinger
Bilbo lay with his eyes shut, gasping an taking pleasure in the feel of the fresh air again, and hardly noticing the excitement of the… — J.R.R. Tolkien
She [the Virgin Mary] was normal. She had already had other children. The Bible tells us that Jesus had two brothers. Virginity, as it relates… — Paulo Coelho
A woman's love is quick to turn into a passion for revenge--an obsession that becomes an endless river of blood, flowing on from generation to… — Fumiko Enchi

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