One Generation Quotes

95 quotes by 79 authors

They say you can't study Kabbalah until you are at least 40 years old. You know why? You have to have experienced at least one… — David Mamet
Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for,… — Ronald Reagan
I always thought of the zombies as being about revolution, one generation consuming the next. — George A. Romero
That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another. — Adlai E. Stevenson
People are hungry for stories. It's part of our very being. Storytelling is a form of history, of immortality too. It goes from one generation… — Studs Terkel
Any fatherâ€¦must finally give his child up to the wilderness and trust to the providence of God. It seems almost a cruelty for one generation… — Marilynne Robinson
To square the records, however, it should be said that if the Calvinist does not rise as high, he usually stays up longer. He places… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
If someone who wanted to learn to dance were to say: For centuries, one generation after the other has learned the positions, and it is… — Soren Kierkegaard
Give me just one generation of youth, and I'll transform the whole world. — Vladimir Lenin
I am increasingly persuaded that the earth belongs exclusively to the living and that one generation has no more right to bind another to it's… — Thomas Jefferson
All it takes,â€ said Crake, â€œis the elimination of one generation. One generation of anything. Beetles, trees, microbes, scientists, speakers of French, whatever. Break the… — Margaret Atwood
Like the generations of leaves, the lives of mortal men. Now the wind scatters the old leaves across the earth, now the living timber bursts… — Homer
In the human heart one generation of passions follows another; from the ashes of one springs the spark of the next. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
[Y]our agricultural revolution is not an event like the Trojan War, isolated in the distant past and without relevance to your lives today. The work… — Daniel Quinn
What one generation tolerates, the next generation will embrace. — John Wesley
What one generation finds ridiculous, the next accepts; and the third shudders when it looks back on what the first did. — Peter Singer
Odysseus inclines his head. "True. But fame is a strange thing. Some men gain glory after they die, while others fade. What is admired in… — Madeline Miller
Generations of men are like the leaves. In winter, winds blow them down to earth, but then, when spring season comes again, the budding wood… — Homer
All it takes is one generation to brainwash a population and convince them that reality doesn't exist — Marie Lu
Could it be that simple? Tell one story to one generation and repeat it until it was accepted as fact? — Kiera Cass

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