Quotes of Generation - somelinesforyou

“ Now these are the generations of Terah: Terah begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begat Lot. ”

- Bible

“ Judges don't age. Time decorates them. ”

- Enid Bagnold

“ He was not of an age but for all time. ”

- Ben Jonson

“ Until you value yourself, you will not value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it. ”

- M. Scott Peck

“ Every generation thinks it has the answers, and every generation is humbled by nature. ”

- Phillip Lubin

“ Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn. ”

- Joseph Addison

“ Ages elapsed ere Homer's lamp appeared, And ages ere the Mantuan Swan was heard; To carry nature lengths unknown before, To give a Milton birth, asked ages more. ”

- William Cowper

“ Our generation has an incredible amount of realism, yet at the same time it loves to complain and not really change because if it does change then it won't have anything to complain about. ”

- Tori Amos

“ Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new. ”

- Henry David Thoreau

“ A politician thinks of the next election; a statesman of the next generation. ”

- James Clarke

“ If I were given the opportunity to present a gift to the next generation, it would be the ability for each individual to learn to laugh at himself. ”

- Charles Schulz

“ Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations. ”

- Henry David Thoreau

“ In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these. ”

- Paul Harvey

“ All, all of a piece throughout; / Thy chase had a beast in view; / Thy wars brought nothing about; / Thy lovers were all untrue. / 'Tis well an old age is out, / And time to begin a new. ”

- John Dryden

“ Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of the things that are to be. ”

- Adlai E. Stevenson

“ An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterwards. ”

- Francis Scott Fitzgerald

“ Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass. ”

- Joseph Addison

“ There is a time for risky love. There is a time for extravagant gestures. There is a time to pour out your affections on one you love. And when the time comes — seize it, don't miss it. ”

- Max Lucado

“ Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers. ”

- Lewis Mumford

“ The ''good old times'' — all times when old are good. ”

- Lord Byron

“ I don't like giving names to generations; It's like trying to read the song title on a record that's spinning. ”

- Ian Williams

“ I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked. ”

- Allen Ginsberg

“ 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 more I read about feeding times, sleep times and waking-up times, the more inadequate and miserable I felt. ”

- Gail Porter

“ Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation. ”

- Adlai E. Stevenson

“ May we be alive at this same time again. ”

- Unknown

“ Planning ahead is a measure of class. The rich and even the middle class plan for future generations, but the poor can plan ahead only a few weeks or days. ”

- Gloria Steinem

“ Time tries truth. ”

- Unknown

“ The war is ending, for the first time in the history of relations between Moscow and Grozny, and the era of peace is starting. ”

- Aslan Maskhadov

“ That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in the next. ”

- John Stuart Mill
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