Generations Quotes
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Passion has been in my DNA for generations.
Julio Iglesias
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I'm a first-generation American, so I had friends from several cultures while growing up, including Indian and Iranian friends.
Michael Steger
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After a greater or lesser number of generations the mutants are eliminated.
G. Ledyard Stebbins
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Pop artists deal with the lowly trivia of possessions and equipment that the present generation is lugging along with it on its safari into the future.
J. G. Ballard
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Before (the Palestinians) very eyes we are possessing the land and the villages where they and their ancestors have lived We are the generation of colonizers and without the steel helmet and the gun barrel we cannot plant a tree and build a house.
Moshe Dayan
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I really do feel like I'm in a generation where women are empowering and supporting each other. It's so amazing to feel a part of that.
Hailee Steinfeld
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Bilbo lay with his eyes shut, gasping an taking pleasure in the feel of the fresh air again, and hardly noticing the excitement of the dwarves, or how they praised him and patted him on the back and put themseves and all their families for generations to come at his service.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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Where else? I belong to a lost generation and am comfortable only in the company of others who are lost and lonely.
Umberto Eco
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A large animal needs a large area. If you protect that area, you're also protecting thousands of other plants and animals. You're saving all these species that future generations will want - you're saving the world for your children and your children's children. . . . The destruction of species is final. If you lose a species, you lose the genes, you lose all the potential drugs and potential foods that could be useful to the next generations. The ecosystems will not function as they have.
George Schaller
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[American Citizenship] captures the enduring idea that this country only works when we accept certain obligations to one another and to future generations
Barack Obama
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I was born on August 10, 1913, in Lorenzkirch, a small village in Saxony, as the fourth child of Theodor and Elisabeth Paul, nee Ruppel. All in all, we were six children. Both parents were descendants from Lutheran ministers in several generations.
Wolfgang Paul
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Because grandparents are usually free to love and guide and befriend the young without having to take daily responsibility for them, they can often reach out past pride and fear of failure and close the space between generations.
Jimmy Carter
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In a few generations you can breed a racehorse. The recipe for making a man like Delacroix is less well known.
Auguste Renoir
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Let us re-adopt the Declaration of Independence, and with it, the practices, and policy, which harmonize with it. Let north and south - let all Americans - let all lovers of liberty everywhere - join in the great and good work. If we do this, we shall not only have saved the Union; but we shall have so saved it, as to make, and to keep it, forever worthy of the saving. We shall have so saved it, that the succeeding millions of free happy people, the world over, shall rise up, and call us blessed, to the latest generations.
Abraham Lincoln
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THE old man died beneath the wheels of the twentieth century. There was nothing left but stains, bloodstains and fragments of flesh . . . And the same thing is happening to my generation.
Dambudzo Marechera
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Begone apprentice, I left my gong and stick At the sacred grotto Of Mother Idoto For you and your ilk For generations of town criers.
Christopher Okigbo
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Luther’s principles for the internal, and Machiavelli’s practice for the external, direction of the State were to be the ideal for many generations.
Neville Figgis
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I think one of the nicest things that we created as a generation was just the fact that we could say, 'Hey, I don't like white people.'
Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
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We are all a complete mixture;yet at the same time,we are all related.Each gene can trace its own journey to a different common ancestor.This is a quite extraordinary legacy that we all have inherited from the people who lived before us.Our genes did not just appear when we were born.They have been carried to us by millions of individual lives over thousands of generations.
Bryan Sykes
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If every nation gets the government it deserves, every generation writes the history which corresponds with its view of the world.
Elizabeth Janeway
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NOT to my contemporaries, not to my compatriots but to mankind I commit my now completed work in the confidence that it will not be without value for them, even if this should be late recognised, as is commonly the lot of what is good. For it cannot have been for the passing generation, engrossed with the delusion of the moment, that my mind, almost against my will, has uninterruptedly stuck to its work through the course of a long life. preface to the second edition of "the world as will and representation.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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For reasons of national security and out of consideration for some people still alive I have omitted certain material. Some of this material cannot be made available for many years, perhaps for many generations.
Harry S Truman
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There's so much talk about the Drug Generation and songs about drugs. That's stupid. They aren't songs about drugs; they're about life.
Cass Elliot The Mamas & The Papas
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We are the climactic generation of human cultural evolution, and in the microcosm of our lives the macrocosm of the evolution of the human race is playing itself out.
William Irwin Thompson