Generations Quotes

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In the human heart one generation of passions follows another; from the ashes of one springs the spark of the next. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Oh, no-" They weren't even on the runway, and Jonah's father was already immersed in his BlackBerry. "Remember those 'Live Large with the Wiz Generation'… — Gordon Korman
It was funny how the old practices always came around again. It was the rhythm of human enterprise to invent and worship some new approach,… — Ann Brashares
Katherine Kenton remains among the generation of women who feel that the most sincere form of flattery is the male erection. — Chuck Palahniuk
What you see at fight club is a generation of men raised by women. — Chuck Palahniuk
Maybe children just want whatever it is they don't get. And then they grow up and give their children what they wanted, be it silence… — Laura Moriarty
Oh my God. What inâ€”â€ I was going to be killed by two generations of beautiful women. While naked. â€œMom,â€ Isabel snapped, interrupting. â€œDo you… — Maggie Stiefvater
This book is to be neither an accusation nor a confession, and least of all an adventure, for death is not an adventure to those… — Erich Maria Remarque
I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations. — Beatrix Potter
I'm no military expert, and these figures might not be exactly right,' I said. 'But as best I can tell, we've launched 114 Tomahawk cruise… — Greg Mortenson
Born in a generation that thinks cynical and disenchanted is cool, sometimes I'm a little off the beaten track. — Karen Marie Moning
We are all fixing what is broken. It is the task of a lifetime. We'll leave much unfinished for the next generation. — Abraham Verghese
As we peer into society's future, we -- you and I, and our government -- must avoid the impulse to live only for today, plundering… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
[Y]our agricultural revolution is not an event like the Trojan War, isolated in the distant past and without relevance to your lives today. The work… — Daniel Quinn
It is better for all the world, if instead of waiting to execute degenerate offspring for crime or to let them starve for their imbecility,… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The bartenders are the regular band of Jack, and the heavenly drummer who looks up to the sky with blue eyes, with a beard, is… — Jack Kerouac
The psychological dangers through which earlier generations were guided by the symbols and spiritual exercises of their mythological and religious inheritance, we today (in so… — Joseph Campbell
But the young educated adults of the 90s -- who were, of course, the children of the same impassioned infidelities and divorces Mr. Updike wrote… — David Foster Wallace
Every generation wants to be the last. Every generation hates the next trend in music they can't understand. We hate to give up those reins… — Chuck Palahniuk
The job of every generation is to discover the flaws of the one that came before it. That's part of growing up, figuring out all… — Justine Larbalestier

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