Generations Quotes
3253 quotes by 2229 authors
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What one generation tolerates, the next generation will embrace.
— John Wesley
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The next generation will always surpass the previous one. It's one of the never-ending cycles in life.
— Masashi Kishimoto
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Human manners are wildly inconsistent; plenty of people have said so. But this one takes the cake: the manner in which we're allowed to steal…
— Barbara Kingsolver
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The question of the next generation will not be one of how to liberate the masses, but rather, how to make them love their servitude.
— Aldous Huxley
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Rich People plan for three generations Poor people plan for Saturday night
— Gloria Steinem
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Yet if there's no reason to live without a child, how could there be with one? To answer one life with a successive life is…
— Lionel Shriver
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I'm quite certain that if the rest of the world vanished overnight and the development of cricket were left in Australian hands, within a generation,…
— Bill Bryson
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Imagine the amazing good fortune of the generation that gets to see the end of the world. This is as marvelous as being there in…
— Jean Baudrillard
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It's my firm conclusion that human meaning comes from humans, not from a supernatural source. After we die, our hopes for an afterlife reside in…
— Greg Graffin
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One way or another, I think virtually all of the prophets and early Apostles had their visionary moments of our time--a view that gave them…
— Jeffrey R. Holland
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The longest and most destructive party ever held is now into its fourth generation and still no one shows any signs of leaving. Somebody did…
— Douglas Adams
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...my soul always reverts to the Old Testament and to Shakespeare. There at least one feels that it's human beings talking. There people hate, people…
— Soren Kierkegaard
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Not to know what happened before you were born is always to remain a child. For what is a man’s life if it is not…
— Marianne Curley
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The current generation now sees everything clearly, it marvels at the errors, it laughs at the folly of its ancestors, not seeing that this chronicle…
— Nikolai Gogol
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Everything is banal in experience, fleeting in duration, sordid in content; in all respects the same today as generations now dead and buried have found…
— Marcus Aurelius
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She was clean": no piercings, tattoos, or scarifications. All the kids were now. And who could blame them, Alex thought, after watching three generations of…
— Jennifer Egan
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Mentors and apprentices are partners in an ancient human dance, and one of teaching's great rewards is the daily chance it gives us to get…
— Parker J. Palmer
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If you look deeply into the palm of your hand, you will see your parents and all generations of your ancestors. All of them are…
— Nhat Hanh
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Let us admit, without bitterness, that the individual has his distinct interests and can, without felony, stipulate for those interests and defend them. The present…
— Victor Hugo
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Child psychologists have demonstrated that our minds are actually constructed by these thousands of tiny interactions during the first few years of life. We aren't…
— Sidney Poitier
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