Generations Quotes

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Mrs. Parks' act of brave defiance rocked the foundation of American society and inspired generations of civil rights leaders and created a sense of hope… — Kendrick Meek
Why shouldn't future generations and young Americans have the choice to earn a higher rate of return? Why shouldn't they be able to own their… — Ken Mehlman
Families don't make projects for five years, they make projects for generations. — Achille Maramotti
It's a song that we sing after we win a Test match. We sing it after every one-day series win. It's been passed down through… — Ricky Ponting
I don't like giving names to generations. It's like trying to read the song title on a record that's spinning. — Ian Williams
Thus no member of the commonwealth can have a hereditary privilege as against his fellow-subjects; and no-one can hand down to his descendants the privileges… — Immanuel Kant
Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations: ask thy father, and he will shew thee; thy elders, and they will tell… — Bible
If you want happiness for a lifetime - help the next generation. — Chinese Proverbs
Every generation thinks it has the answers, and every generation is humbled by nature — Unknown Author
Whoever teaches his son teaches not alone his son but also his son's son, and so on to the end of generations — Hebrew Proverb
Before us men have flourished just as we now flourish: others yet again shall be, whose generations we shall never see — Greek Proverb
The living generation is bound to support them, as it would an aged and slightly zany parent. — Unknown Author
Every generation is convinced there has been a deplorable breakdown of manners — Unknown Author
We shall have to repent in this generation , not so much for the evil deeds of the wicked people, but for the appalling silence… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Generations to come will scarce believe that such a one as this walked the earth in flesh and blood. — Albert Einstein
It's one of nature's ways that we often feel closer to distant generations than to the generation immediately preceding us. — Igor Stravinsky
The older generation thought nothing of getting up at five every morning - and the younger generation doesn't think much of it either. — Unknown Author
(following 9/11) I grew up believing my generation would be better. We would be kinder, we would be more level-headed. We would be more loving.… — Jorja Fox
In case you're worried about what's going to become of the younger generation, it's going to grow up and start worrying about the younger generation — Unknown Author
The generations of living things pass in a short time, and like runners hand on the torch of life — Lucretius

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