Generations Quotes
3253 quotes by 2306 authors
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I come from a generation of sceptics, who do not believe what politicians say. The Labour Party wants to convince people through actions, not words.…
— Joseph Muscat
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There are three things to leave behind; your photographs, your library, and your personal journals. These things are certainly going to be more valuable to…
— Jim Rohn
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That's maybe the most important thing each generation does, is to break a lot of rules and make up their own way of doing things.
— Jackson Browne
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My sister and my brother, of whom I have not spoken before, were considerably older than I; it seemed almost as if we belonged to…
— Pierre Loti
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The language of the younger generation has the brutality of the city and an assertion of threatening power at hand, not to come. It is…
— Elizabeth Hardwick
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It is a common sentence that Knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of Ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up…
— George Eliot
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We cannot tire or give up. We owe it to the present and future generations of all species to rise up and walk!
— Wangari Maathai
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Choice of evils debates always produce extremism - people choose what they hope is the lesser evil, then call it good and demonize the other…
— Margaret Atwood
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You may learn sooner than most generations the hard lesson that you must always make the path for yourself...There is no secret society out there…
— Stephen Colbert
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My parents were both from extremely different backgrounds. My father's Italian, my mother was of Swedish descent. They're both first-generation Americans.
— Susan Lucci
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Every few generations there are people who come along that change the way we look at the world, for musical enthusiasts Monk is one of…
— John Conyers
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[The Internet generation is] not fighting that battle about who gets to speak; they all get to speak.
— Jennifer Pahlka
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By looking at climate change as a clean energy generation problem, we're setting ourselves up not to solve it.
— Alex Steffen
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That sense of sacredness, that thinking in generations, must begin with reverence for this earth.
— Paul Tsongas
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I cannot think that a player genuinely loving the game can get pleasure just from the number of points scored no matter how impressive the…
— Alexander Kotov
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We are different from previous generations of conservatives... We are no longer working to preserve the status quo. We are radicals, working to overturn the…
— Paul Weyrich
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My colleagues and I are of that generation of young men who went through the Second World War and the Japanese Occupation and emerged determined…
— Lee Kuan Yew
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It is essential to rear a generation at the very top of society that has all the qualities needed to lead and give the people…
— Lee Kuan Yew
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If you don’t include your women graduates in your breeding pool and leave them on the shelf, you would end up a more stupid society…So…
— Lee Kuan Yew
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If a Christian is not willing to rise early and work late, to expend greater effort in diligent study and faithful work, that person will…
— J. Oswald Sanders
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