Generations Quotes

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â€ŽA general State education is a mere contrivance for moulding people to be exactly like one another; and as the mould in which it casts… — John Stuart Mill
Yet, there was once a king worthy of that name. That king was Arthur. It is paramount disgrace of this evil generation that the name… — Stephen R. Lawhead
Bribes are the glue that's kept teenagers and parents connected for generations — Gayle Forman
It takes four angels to oversee an apocalypse: a recorder to make the book that would be scripture in the new world; a preserver to… — Chris Adrian
This faith transforms the whirlwind of despair into a warm and reviving breeze of hope. The words of a motto which a generation ago were… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
She was of the stuff of which great men's mothers are made. She was indispensable to high generation, hated at tea parties, feared in shops,… — Thomas Hardy
We had the great good fortune and shortcomings of character that marked every generation that had never seen war. — Joshua Ferris
If children were brought into the world by an act of pure reason alone, would the human race continue to exist? Would not a man… — Arthur Schopenhauer
we've produced a generation of spiritual panhandlers, begging for coins of wisdom, banging like bums on every closed door...if an old man moves into a… — Tom Robbins
Me neither,â€ Shane put in. â€œHomie donâ€™t play that.â€ â€œI wonder, sometimes, if your generation speaks English at all,â€ Amelie said. — Rachel Caine
It drops us into a vigorous current, a constant state of misguided control. The doomed generation takes a final step forward, ignoring all the signs… — Hunter S. Thompson
Thus our own age is essentially one of understanding, and on the average, perhaps, more knowledgeable than any former generation, but it is without passion.… — Soren Kierkegaard
Natasha has just come up to the window from the courtyard and opened it wider so that the air may enter more freely into my… — Leon Trotsky
Some kids get called 'bundles of joy' or 'slices of heaven' or 'dreams come true.' We got 'the fifty-fourth generation of DNA experiments.' Doesn't have… — James Patterson
Hip-hop gave a generation a common ground that didn't require either race to lose anything; everyone gained. — Jay-Z
What should our second generation have done, what should it do with the knowledge of the horrors of the extermination of the Jews? We should… — Bernhard Schlink
This Church is true. It will weather every storm that beats against it. It will outlast every critic who rises to mock it. It was… — Gordon B. Hinckley
Please don't wait until the doctors tell you that you are going to have a baby to begin to take care of it. It is… — Nhat Hanh
I don't know what you mean when you say 'the whole world' or 'generations before him.'I thought there was only us. I thought there was… — Lois Lowry
We come from a generation of people who need their TV or stereo playing all the time. These people so scared of silence. These soundaholics,… — Chuck Palahniuk

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