One Generation Quotes

95 One Generation quotes by 79 unique authors

Of all things I find most unbearable is the injustice of one generation to another. — Joyce Cary
What is buried in the past of one generation falls to the next to claim. — Susan Griffin
My dad, as a guy, had to quit school in the ninth grade, fought in the Battle of the Bulge. And spent his life pushing… — John Barrasso
The Don Quixote of one generation may live to hear himself called the savior of society by the next. — James Russell Lowell
Nobody can be rich and stupid for more than one generation. — Romano Prodi
But we have not used our waters well. Our major rivers are defiled by noxious debris. Pollutants from cities and industries kill the fish in… — Lyndon B. Johnson
It is preposterous to suppose that the people of one generation can lay down the best and only rules of government for all who are… — Ulysses S. Grant
From one generation to the next, The Beatles will remain the most important rock band of all time. — Dave Grohl
For the first time in the history of mankind, one generation literally has the power to destroy the past, the present and the future, the… — Hubert H. Humphrey
The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next. — Abraham Lincoln
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 father…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,” said Crake, “is 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

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