Generations Quotes

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They say that children become men, and men become children. Many generations have grown up, become men, and gone hence. — Sholom Aleichem
Who's to say that there is any more support for Freud's psychoanalytic concept of the superego than there is for that old time religion that… — Tony Campolo
Each generation doubtless feels called upon to reform the world. Mine knows that it will not reform it, but its task is perhaps even greater.… — Albert Camus
Today's younger generation is no worse than my own. We were just as ignorant and repulsive as they are, but nobody listened to us. — Al Capp
But go on, valiant champion; you die not as a fool, though the apostate, unfaithful, and lukewarm ministers and professors of this generation think and… — Donald Cargill
Thought once awakened does not again slumber; unfolds itself into a System of Thought; grows, in man after man, generation after generation, - till its… — Thomas Carlyle
Our grandfathers had to run, run, run. My generation's out of breath. We ain't running no more. — Stokely Carmichael
The awareness that health is dependent upon habits that we control makes us the first generation in history that to a large extent determines its… — Jimmy Carter
For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are devoted to the… — Jimmy Carter
Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
I hate organized religion. I think you have to love thy neighbor as thyself. I think you have to pick your own God and be… — Julia Child
In my generation, except for a few people who'd gone into banking or nursing or something like that, middle-class women didn't have careers. You were… — Julia Child
You know, I think of the global economy as an inverted triangle, resting on the shoulders of the American consumer. And if the American consumer… — Hillary Clinton
Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is… — Noam Chomsky
Once the fabric of a just society is undone, it takes generations to weave it back together. — Deepak Chopra
What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation? — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors. — Emile M. Cioran
A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation. — James Freeman Clarke
The Constitution of the United States was made not merely for the generation that then existed, but for posterity- unlimited, undefined, endless, perpetual posterity. — Henry Clay
When the target audience is American teenage kids, you can have problems. My generation prized really fine acting and writing. Sometimes you have to go… — John Cleese

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