One Generation Quotes

95 One Generation quotes by 79 unique authors

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
In a completely rational society, the best of us would aspire to be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something… — Lee Iacocca
Freedom is a fragile thing and is never more than one generation away from extinction. It is not ours by inheritance; it must be fought… — Ronald Reagan
The poetry of history lies in the quasi-miraculous fact that Once, on this earth, on this familiar spot of ground, walked other men and women,… — G. M. Trevelyan
Change comes not from men and women changing their minds, but from the change from one generation to the next. — John Kenneth Galbraith
I set out on this ground which I suppose to be self-evident, that the earth belongs in usufruct to the living. . . . We… — Thomas Jefferson
Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. — Ronald Reagan
The novelties of one generation are only the resuscitated fashions of the generation before last. — George Bernard Shaw
We all die, we all get sick, we all feel hunger and lust and pain, and therefore human life is consistent from one generation to… — Paul Auster
We have discharged one generation of debtors after another, but we do not find that their numbers lessen. We find only that we forget, when… — Jill Lepore
Our children will outwit us if they want; for when it comes to technology, they hold the higher ground. Unlike other tools passed carefully and… — Nancy Gibbs
If you look at the requirements for just one piece, like art, from one generation of games to the next, it will change radically. You… — Gabe Newell
I tend to write about more than one generation because as a child I had contact with more than one generation; it was normal to… — Joanne Harris

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