Generations Quotes

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it takes as long as three generations of hard work, three generations of sacrifice to correct the wrong! — Eric Jerome Dickey
And then it occurs to me. They are frightened. In me, they see their own daughters, just as ignorant, just as unmindful of all the… — Amy Tan
Her beauty was the talk of the valley.It skipped two generations of women in our family, but it sure didn't bypass you, Laila. — Khaled Hosseini
The arts are not just a nice thing to have or to do if there is free time or if one can afford it. Rather,… — Michelle Obama
Our generation is realistic, for we have come to know man as he really is. After all, man is that being who invented the gas… — Viktor E. Frankl
Once poverty is gone, we'll need to build museums to display its horrors to future generations. They'll wonder why poverty continued so long in human… — Muhammad Yunus
One of the purest souls ever to live on this fallen planet was Nicholas Herman, known as Brother Lawrence. He wrote very little, but what… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
For the survivor who chooses to testify, it is clear: his duty is to bear witness for the dead and for the living. He has… — Elie Wiesel
It's always been the children who have saved the universe from the previous generation and remade the world in their own image. ---Carl — Diane Duane
Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great, you can be that generation — Nelson Mandela
We are being made aware that the organization of society on the principle of private profit, as well as public destruction, is leading both to… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Ours was a generation grown up to find all gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken" -- — F. Scott Fitzgerald
You are all a lost generation. [with credit to Gertrude Stein] — Ernest Hemingway
Molecular evidense suggests that our common ancestor with the chimpanzees lived, in Africa, between 5 and 7 million years ago, say half a million generations… — Richard Dawkins
When you believe you have a future, you think in terms of generations and years. When you do not, you live not just by the… — Iris Chang
Generations have been working in jobs they hate, just so they can buy what they don't really need. — Chuck Palahniuk
What makes the voice pathetic is that it doesn't know what kind of people it's reaching. Us. No one hears it, except us. This Age… — Tony Kushner
A generation which ignores history has no past â€” and no future. — Robert A. Heinlein
He removed several pages of death certificates, which were picked up by another breeze and sent into the trees. Some would fall with the leaves… — Jonathan Safran Foer
We don't have a great war in our generation, or a great depression, but we do, we have a great war of the spirit. We… — Chuck Palahniuk

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