Generations Quotes

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Nationwide thinking, nationwide planning and nationwide action are the three great essentials to prevent nationwide crises for future generations to struggle through. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
The man who thinks only of his own generation is born for few. — Seneca the Younger
As generations come and go, Their arts, their customs, ebb and flow; Fate, fortune, sweep strong powers away, And feeble, of themselves, decay. — William Wordsworth
Every generation finds the drug it needs. — P.J. O'Rourke
Sensibility alters from generation to generation in everybody, whether we will or no; but expression is only altered by a man of genius. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Each generation takes a special pleasure in removing the household gods of its parents from their pedestals, and consigning them to the cupboard. — William Ralph Inge
Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one. — Laurence J. Peter
Enduring fame is promised only to those writers who can offer to successive generations a substance constantly renewed; for every generation arrives upon the scene… — Andre Gide
Remember, that money is of the prolific, generating nature. Money can beget money, and its offspring can beget more, and so on. Five shillings turned… — Benjamin Franklin
Our strife pertains to ourselves-to the passing generations of men-and it can without convulsion be hushed forever with the passing of one generation. — Abraham Lincoln
One picture in ten thousand, perhaps, ought to live in the applause of mankind, from generation to generation until the colors fade and blacken out… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
If you are prepared to accept the consequences of your dreams then you must still regard America today with the same naive enthusiasm as the… — Jean Baudrillard
Our generation, like the one before us, must choose. Without the threat of the Cold War, without the pain of economic ruin, without the fresh… — William J. Clinton
Every age and generation must be as free to act for itself in all cases as the ages and generations which preceded it. The vanity… — Thomas Paine
The greatest significance of the present student generation is that it is through them that the point of view of the subjugated is finally and… — James A. Baldwin
It seems to be typical of life in America ... that the second generation has no time to talk to the first. — James A. Baldwin
Negro servants have been smuggling odds and ends out of white homes for generations, and white people have been delighted to have them do it,… — James A. Baldwin
We are not a postwar generation, but a pre-peace generation. Jesus is coming. — Corrie Ten Boom
Three generations from shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves. — Andrew Carnegie
The clever way death cuts us down, but makes it look like just a thinning-out. Generations never fall with one blow - that would be… — Alphonse Daudet

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