Generation Quotes - page 2

It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous. (Charles Dudley Warner)
The reproduction of mankind is a great marvel and mystery. Had God consulted me in the matter, I should have advised him to continue the generation of the species by fashioning them out of clay. View quote
Martin Luther
As a consequence of the terms of the Treaty of Versailles, the officer corps of the old army became part of this class, as did that part of the younger generation who, in the old Germany, would have become officers or civil servants. View quote
Gustav Stresemann
Under the Assads, Kurds were forbidden from learning their own language at school, or even from speaking it in the military. The result is a generation of Syrian Kurds, many now in late middle age, who can't write their own language. View quote
Luke Harding
Venerable men you have come down to us from a former generation. Heaven has bounteously lengthened out your lives, that you might behold this joyous day. View quote
Daniel Webster
I am Warhol. I am the No. 1 most impactful artist of our generation. I am Shakespeare in the flesh. View quote
Kanye West
What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren't supposed to work if they had families. What were they to do when the children were grown - watch raindrops coming down the windowpane? View quote
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
A society which is clamoring for choice, which is filled with many articulate groups, each urging its own brand of salvation, its own variety of economic philosophy, will give each new generation no peace until all have chosen or gone under, unable t. View quote
Margaret Mead
We must recognize that beneath the superficial classifications of sex and race the same potentialities exist, recurring generation after generation, only to perish because society has no place for them. View quote
Margaret Mead
If someone tries to tell you you are the greatest generation in the history of America, don't believe them. You aren't. You have the capability to be, but you aren't. View quote
Josh McDowell
Freedom is never really won. You earn it and win it in every generation. (Coretta Scott King)
Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives. View quote
Chuck Palahniuk
Through first-class education, a generation marches down the long uncertain road of the future with confidence. View quote
Wynton Marsalis
That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another. View quote
Adlai Stevenson II
Every generation loses the messiah it has failed to deserve. View quote
Michael Chabon
History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth. View quote
E. L. Doctorow
I can predict with absolute certainty that within another generation there will be another world war if the nations of the world do not concert the method by which to prevent it. View quote
Woodrow Wilson
Connectivity just can't be a privilege for people in the richest countries. We believe that connecting everyone in the world is one of the great challenges of our generation. And that's why we are happy to play whatever small part in that that we can. View quote
Mark Zuckerberg
I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don't care for the great centuries. All I care about is life, struggle, intensity. I am at ease in my generation. View quote
Émile Zola
The next generation of interesting software will be done on the Macintosh, not the IBM PC. View quote
Bill Gates
Evolution, thus, is merely contingent on certain processes articulated by Darwin: variation and selection. No longer is a fixed object transformed, as in transformational evolution, but an entirely new start is, so to speak, made in every generation. (Ernst Mayr)
I never threw an illegal pitch. The trouble is, once in a while I toss one that ain't never been seen by this generation. View quote
Satchel Paige
Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further. View quote
Søren Kierkegaard
I was the Marlon Brando of my generation. View quote
Bette Davis
Mathematical discoveries, small or great are never born of spontaneous generation. View quote
Henri Poincaré
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