Generations Quotes
3253 Generations quotes by 2229 unique authors
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Each generation imagines that we're all going to hell. Each generation goes through a little hell and comes out heat tempered and better than before.
— Paul Harvey
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Every generation wants to be the last.
— Chuck Palahniuk
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It is the close observation of little things which is the secret of success in business, in art, in science, and in every pursuit in…
— Samuel Smiles
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The development of the doctrine of international arbitration, considered from the standpoint of its ultimate benefits to the human race, is the most vital movement…
— William Howard Taft
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Every generation is a secret society and has incommunicable enthusiasms, tastes, and interests which are a mystery both to its predecessors and to posterity.
— John Jay Chapman
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History and the generations to come will judge our leaders by the decisions they make in the coming weeks.
— Nelson Mandela
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A whole generation of writers dined out on the dialectic between original cultures and their culture by "progress.
— Anatole Broyard
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It is an old cliche to say that the future is in the hands of the young. This is no longer true. The quality of…
— Prince Philip
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The Olympic Games are not just ordinary world championships but a quadrennial festival of universal youth. . . celebrated by each succeeding generation as it…
— Pierre de Coubertin
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Martin Luther King challenged the conscience of my generation, and his words and his legacy continue to move generations to action today at home and…
— John F. Kerry
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Perhaps I was born too early. I was more the painter of your generation than of mine.
— Paul Cezanne
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Parents accept their obsolescence with the best grace they can muster. . . they do all they can to make it easy for the younger…
— Christopher Lasch
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We, the generation that faces the next century, can add the solemn injunction ''If we don't do the impossible, we shall be faced with the…
— Petra Kelly
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Blues for me is having things not go your way - life, love, job, money, ... It is not about the oppression of my ancestors,…
— Robert Cray
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The younger generation of performers really enjoy their success. Its like they know their moment is here right now and probably won't be here in…
— Sheryl Crow
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I guess there was some Casper guy, like, 10 generations ago who I'm named after. I'm the 11th. My son is Casper the XII.
— Casper Van Dien
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Some of the lowest-paid workers in this nation are people that we ask to watch the next generation of Americans. We do a better job…
— Christopher Dodd
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I grew up believing my generation would be better. We would be kinder, we would be more level-headed. We would be more loving. And so…
— Jorja Fox
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The Internet was full of sites producing content for free, in the hope that somehow they'd generate revenue from sources that never materialized, whether it…
— Craig Mundie
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A breath of our inspiration / Is the life of each generation...
— Arthur O'Shaughnessy
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