Generations Quotes

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It was a damned good thing men couldnâ€™t have children. Gregory took no shame in admitting that the human race would have died out generations… — Julia Quinn
The third guy was different. He was what you got when you ate squirrels for four generations. Smarter than a rat and tougher than a… — Lee Child
There was nothing dishonourable in not being blown about by every little modern wind. Better to have worth, to entrench, to be an oak of… — John le Carre
Our ancestors derived less from life than we do, but they also expected much less and were less intent on controlling the future. We are… — Amin Maalouf
What the younger generation didn't understand was that the grass was greenest where it's watered.. — Nicholas Sparks
There was a wall. It did not look important. It was built of uncut rocks roughly mortared. An adult could look right over it, and… — Ursula K. Le Guin
We are the dead. Our only true life is in the future. We shall take part in it as handfuls of dust and splinters of… — George Orwell
Our duty to the whole, including the unborn generations, bids us to restrain an unprincipled present-day minority from wasting the heritage of these unborn generations.… — Theodore Roosevelt
Your face encompasses the beauty of the whole earth. Your lips, as red as ripening fruit, gently part as if in pain. It is the… — Edvard Munch
The future belongs to those who give the next generation reason for hope. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
History is hard to know, because of all the hired bullshit, but even without being sure of "history" it seems entirely reasonable to think that… — Hunter S. Thompson
I remember laughing with relief that the same old adolescent boredom goes on from generation to generation. ...the words took me back to my own… — Julian Barnes
And I, the forÂmer mysÂtic, was thinkÂing: Yes, man is stronger, greater than God. When Adam and Eve deÂceived You, You chased them from parÂadise.… — Elie Wiesel
Unique and different is the new generation of beautifulâ€¦ You dont have to be like everybody else. In fact I donâ€™t think you should. — Taylor Swift
Actually, it's as if [Superman is] more real than we are. We writers come and go, generations of artists leave their interpretations, and yet something… — Grant Morrison
Human beings are ultimately nothing but carriers-passageways- for genes. They ride us into the ground like racehorses from generation to generation. Genes don't think about… — Haruki Murakami
The gods weave misfortunes for men, so that the generations to come will have something to sing about.â€ MallarmÃ© repeats, less beautifully, what Homer said;… — Jorge Luis Borges
Culture is sustained in our synapses...It's more than what can be reduced to binary code and uploaded onto the Net. To remain vital, culture must… — Nicholas G. Carr
The young all have the same dream: to save the world. Some quickly forget this dream, convinced that there are more important things to do,… — Paulo Coelho
In our work, the question is, how much you absorb from others. So for me, creativity, is really like a relay race. As children we… — Hayao Miyazaki

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