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Generations Quotes by George Bernard Shaw
- Men get tired of everything, of heaven no less than of hell; and that all history is nothing but a record of the oscillations of…
- This is the true joy in life: Being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one, being a force of nature instead…
- It's all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.
- Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and…
- The novelties of one generation are only the resuscitated fashions of the generation before last.
- I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work, the more I live. I rejoice in life for its…
- Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and…
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- All in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and dedicated to flight, I was disappointed by the wrinkle in… — Neil Armstrong
- If you watch animals objectively for any length of time, you're driven to the conclusion that their main aim in life is… — David Attenborough
- Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But many in… — Margaret Atwood
- Every generation always thinks it was better before, and I think people have been saying this for probably thousands of years. — Paul Auster
- I'm an independent. I'm a centrist. A new generation is arriving that has grown up with a multiplicity of choice in every… — John Avlon
- I don't need fame any more. People are less interested in me in terms of celebrity. I'm happy to see a new… — Dan Aykroyd
- Even the most wretched individual of our present society could not exist and develop without the cumulative social efforts of countless generations. — Mikhail Bakunin
- Everyone always tells you that you're the only one that can do this or that role right, and if you say no,… — Christian Bale
- In a single generation, the Internet has given to virtually every person on the face of the earth the ability to communicate… — Bob Barr
- Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a… — John Adams
- I think my whole generation's mission is to kill the cliche. — Beck
- Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to… — Joseph Addison