Generations Quotes
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I do think it's fascinating to see a play where everybody's sort of, in various ways, uprooted, and you see the older generation, the parents, whose faith has been something concrete that has guided them through a specific set of hurdles and circumstances.
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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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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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A generation of children has been betrayed.
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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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We've been around for almost three decades now - there's about three generations of Bon Jovi fans.
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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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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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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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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.
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Anyone of my generation who trusts government probably has an I.Q. that would make a good golf score.
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There we were all in one place, a generation lost in space.
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The character of a generation is moulded by personal character.
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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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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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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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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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Education is only the most fully conscious of the channels whereby each generation influences the next.
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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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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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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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The generations of men run on in the tide of time, but leave their destined lineaments permanent for ever and ever.
