Own Generation Quotes
23 quotes by 21 authors
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My business is, with all my might to serve my own generation; in doing so I shall best serve the next generation, should the Lord…
— George Muller
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Hemingway seems to be in a funny position. People nowadays can't identify with him closely as a member of their own generation, and he isn't…
— Leslie Fiedler
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With artists of my own generation there was at first no group identity - and never a clique.
— Kenneth Noland
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Believing, repenting, and the like, are the product of the new nature; and can never be produced by the old corrupt nature... as the child…
— Thomas Boston
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Well, the task I've set forth will long outlive our own generation. But together, we too have come through the worst. Let us now begin…
— Ronald Reagan
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Affection is the most important thing. And the quality of affection - with your friends, your lovers, your family. But particularly for your own generation.
— Allen Ginsberg
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As a teacher, as a propagandist, Mr. Shaw is no good at all, even in his own generation. But as a personality, he is immortal.
— Max Beerbohm
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I thought I would write something that would make some people uncomfortable. . . . What intrigued me, I think, was the idea of women…
— Wendy Wasserstein
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Within your own generation-the same songs, the same wars, the same attitudes toward those wars, the same rules and radio shows in the air-you can…
— John Updike
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The man who thinks only of his own generation is born for few.
— Seneca the Younger
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I just didn't know where I fit in - I didn't seem to fit in my parent's generation. I didn't seem to fit in my…
— Radhanath Swami
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I've always said if somebody wrote a book and they took their whole life to learn that knowledge in that book, why you won't just…
— Jeff Olson
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The historical sense compels a man to write not merely with his own generation in his bones, but with a feeling that the whole of…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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Abraham Lincoln - the spirit incarnate of those who won victory in the Civil War - was the true representative of this people, not only…
— Theodore Roosevelt
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Music, Rock and Roll music especially, is such a generational thing. Each generation must have their own music, I had my own in my generation,…
— Ronnie James Dio
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An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Our understanding of Shakespeare already depends largely on the vitality of Renaissance elements in our education. Each man must live in his own generation, as…
— George Edward Woodberry
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We should realize that, if [Socrates] demanded that the wisest men should rule, he clearly stressed that he did not mean the learned men; in…
— Karl Popper
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There was nothing dishonourable in not being blown about by every little modern wind. Better to have worth, to entrench, to be an oak of…
— John le Carre
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Think not forever of yourselves, O Chiefs, nor of your own generation. Think of continuing generations of our families, think of our grandchildren and of…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
Who Wrote These Own Generation Quotes
21 authors contributed a total of 23 Own Generation Quotes as follows: