Generations Quotes
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Natasha has just come up to the window from the courtyard and opened it wider so that the air may enter more freely into my room. I can see the bright green strip of grass beneath the wall, and the clear blue sky above the wall, and sunlight everywhere. Life is beautiful. Let the future generations cleanse it of all evil, oppression and violence, and enjoy it to the full.
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He who lives to see two or three generations is like a man who sits some time in the conjurer's booth at a fair, and witnesses the performance twice or thrice in succession. The tricks were meant to be seen only once; and when they are no longer a novelty and cease to deceive, their effect is gone.
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You went to Woodstock and all that trash, your generation is fading fast.
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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.
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'That is the story. Do you think there is any way of making them believe it?' ' Not in the first generation', he said, 'but you might succeed with the second and later generations.'
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Precepts are like seeds; they are little things which do much good; if the mind which receives them has a disposition, it must not be doubted that his part contributes to the generation, and adds much to that which has been collected.
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I'm really looking forward to a time when generations after us look back and say how ridiculous it was that humans were driving cars.
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We've been around for almost three decades now - there's about three generations of Bon Jovi fans.
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I think there are very few people, in my generation at least, that are that passionate about what they do.
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There is a whole other generation that knows me from "Arrested Development" "Scream" and, of course, "Happy Days."
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A generation of children has been betrayed.
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To a Brit of my generation, one of the most objectionable things about Margaret Thatcher is her falsity. She is a total construct. For one thing, she had a made-over accent.
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I had an experience that probably is shared by many parents. When my daughter was born, I felt viscerally connected to generations before and after me in a way that took me by surprise.
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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.
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Football is not a game but a religion, a metaphysical island of fundamental truth in a highly verbalized, disguised society, a throwback of 30,000 generations of anthropological time.
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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.
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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.
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Our global forests are the lungs of the world, and protecting them is fundamental for our survival. When we hand these forests over to future generations, we must be able to say we exercised our stewardship wisely and responsibly.
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The character of a generation is moulded by personal character.
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There we were all in one place, a generation lost in space.
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I had a feeling that my generation-and me, also-we were naked. We did not belong to anything.
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I think it's very important that we should pass on to our future generations… the things we've learnt.
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Maurice Kenny stands at the forefront of his generation. Few writers of any ethnicity are destined to be remembered in the mainstream of literary history; I believe that Kenny's contributions as a poet are among those few. He writes from the center, as our Elders would say.
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Education is only the most fully conscious of the channels whereby each generation influences the next.
