Generations Quotes

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When my generation was your age, we took crazy risks. The wildest thing was - prepare to be shocked - we deliberately ingested carbohydrates! — Dave Barry
Every generation, no matter how paltry its character, thinks itself much wiser than the one immediately preceding it, let alone those that are more remote. — Arthur Schopenhauer
The minds of different generations are as impenetrable one by the other as are the monads of Leibniz. — Andre Maurois
The generations of men run on in the tide of time, but leave their destined lineaments permanent for ever and ever. — William Blake
I suppose you think that persons who are as old as your father and myself are always thinking about very grave things, but I know… — Henry David Thoreau
A man's liberal and conservative phases seem to follow each other in a succession of waves from the time he is born. Children are radicals.… — Elwyn Brooks White
I see nothing wrong ethically with the idea of correcting single gene defects through genetic engineering. But I am concerned about any other kind of… — Ian Wilmut
It is difficult to imagine a greater imposition than adding genes to future generations that changes the nature of future people. — Ian Wilmut
There will soon be no more priests... They may wait awhile, perhaps a generation or two, dropping off by degrees. A superior breed shall take… — Walt Whitman
Plants don't think. Animals are guided by the power of instinct over which they themselves have no control. Animals have a certain kind of brain… — Sterling W Sill
There are moments in history when a door for massive change opens, and great revolutions for good or evil spring up in the vacuum created… — Lou Engle
It was too difficult. People weren't prepared to put in the hours on the donkey work - you know, dates and facts and so on.… — Sebastian Faulks
The World is not ours to keep. We hold it in trust for future generations. — Kofi Annan
I am not concerned with Poetry. My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity. Yet these elegies are… — Wilfred Owen
Like most people of my generation, I fell in love with the philosophy of existentialism. There is no particular religious tradition in my work. There… — Stanley Elkin
I feel like the Kurt Cobain of my generation, but people just donâ€™t understand me, — Justin Bieber
Each generation must assume the responsibility of securing their manhood, their womanhood, the definition of their being on earth that in the final analysis is… — John Henrik Clarke
When William the Conqueror commissioned a great survey of his English realm at Gloucester in 1085, the result was a work so thorough, fair, dispassionate,… — James Buchan
The Earth swirls down through the ominous moons of preconsidered generations. — Mervyn Peake
It's going to take a new generation of courageous conservatives to help make America great again. — Ted Cruz

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