Generations Quotes

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Fewer and fewer Americans possess objects that have a patina, old furniture, grandparents pots and pans - the used things, warm with generations of human… — Susan Sontag
Language is not an abstract construction of the learned, or of dictionary makers, but is something arising out of the work, needs, ties, joys, affections,… — Noah Webster
Man is more disposed to domination than freedom; and a structure of dominion not only gladdens the eye of the master who rears and protects… — Wilhelm von Humboldt
Nothing matters more to the future of this Nation than insuring that our young men and women learn to believe in themselves and believe in… — Richard M. Nixon
How many more years I shall be able to work on the problem I do not know; I hope, as long as I live. There… — Robert H. Goddard
Never before has man had such a great capacity to control his own environment, to end hunger, poverty and disease, to banish illiteracy and human… — John F. Kennedy
I believe that in each generation God has called enough men and women to evangelize all the yet unreached tribes of the earth. It is… — Isobel Miller Kuhn
This generation can only reach this generation. — David Livingstone
As parents, we can have no joy, knowing that this government is not sufficiently lasting to ensure any thing which we may bequeath to posterity:… — Thomas Paine
A generation ago, the image was that you had to trample everyone else down to succeed; but I don't believe that makes good business sense — Richard Branson
The only way to create a foundational document that could stand the test of time was to build in enough flexibility that later generations would… — Diane Wood
We in this country, in this generation, areby destiny rather than choicethe watchmen on the walls of world freedom. We ask, therefore, that we may… — John F. Kennedy
The peace we seek in the world is not the flimsy peace which is merely an interlude between wars, but a peace which can endure… — Richard M. Nixon
It is time for a new generation of leadership, to cope with new problems and new opportunities. For there is a new world to be… — John F. Kennedy
Generation by male and female is a law common to animals and plants. — Herman Boerhaave
There are various causes for the generation of force: a tensed spring, an air current, a falling mass of water, fire burning under a boiler,… — Justus von Liebig
There's a lot of really inspiring music coming around the bend - we tend to believe that to sound classic or timeless is to sound… — Brandi Carlile
Stories were primarily verbal to begin with. Before there were cave paintings, stories were told over generations. We tell each other thousands of stories in… — David Massengill
The purpose of our lives is to add value to the people of this generation and those that follow. — R. Buckminster Fuller
You know, there was a recent poll which said that young people in the generation of the students here felt it was far more likely… — William J. Clinton

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