Own Generation Quotes

23 Own Generation quotes by 20 unique authors

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
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
With artists of my own generation there was at first no group identity - and never a clique. — Kenneth Noland
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
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
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
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
I thought I would write something that would make some people uncomfortable. . . . What intrigued me, I think, was the idea of women… — Wendy Wasserstein
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
The man who thinks only of his own generation is born for few. — Seneca the Younger
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
It is a quirk of American culture that each generation of nonconservatives sees the right-wingers of its own generation as the scary ones, then chooses… — Rick Perlstein
My idea is always to reach my generation. The wise writer writes for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.An author ought… — F. Scott Fitzgerald

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