Quotes by Generations The world is no longer closed to us in the way it was in the past - present generations have unparalleled access to pretty much all corners of the globe. Edgar Guest generationspastworld The modern minds in each generation are the critics who preserve us from a petrifying world, who will not leave us to walk undisturbed in the ways of our fathers. Edith Hamilton generationsmindfather The heterodoxy of one generation is the orthodoxy of the next. Edith Hamilton orthodoxynextgenerations The problem is that I am in the wrong century to burn things. I am the wrong generation to let it go. Edmund de Waal let-it-gogenerationsproblem Books should be cherished, like children, books are for the next generation, like children, like history. Edna Ferber generationsbookchildren Your face encompasses the beauty of the whole earth. Your lips, as red as ripening fruit, gently part as if in pain. It is the smile of a corpse. Now the hand of death touches life. The chain is forged that links the thousand families that are dead to the thousand generations to come. Edvard Munch generationspainhands To your generation, I must represent the literary equivalent of tufted furniture and gas chandeliers. Edith Wharton gasfurnituregenerations [Whole] generations may be swept away by the madness of kings in the space of a single hour. Edward Gibbon generationsspacekings The affections are immortal! They are the sympathies which unite the ceaseless generations. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton affectionimmortalitygenerations If I can leave a single message with the younger generation, it is to lash yourself to the mast, like Ulysses if you must, to escape the siren calls of complacency and indifference. Edward Kennedy sirenscomplacencygenerations Language is the most massive and inclusive art we know, a mountainous and anonymous work of unconscious generations. Edward Sapir generationsworkart The prayers of God's saints strengthen the unborn generation against the desolating waves of sin and evil. Edward McKendree Bounds generationsprayerevil [W]ords are fine, but it has to be what a generation reads into those words. Edward Kennedy finegenerations My generation is having its midlife crisis in its 20s. Edward Norton midlifecrisisgenerations The sequoias belong to the silences of the milleniums. Many of them have seen a hundred human generations rise, give off their little clamors and perish. They seem indeed to be forms of immortality standing here amoing the transitory shapes of time. Edwin Markham generationssilencegiving The work of a generation is beginning here, with your hearings, and you have the full measure of my gratitude and support. Edward Snowden gratitudegenerationssupport Science is the one human activity that is truly progressive. The body of positive knowledge is transmitted from generation to generation. Edwin Powell Hubble generationsscienceknowledge Every generation of children offers mankind the possibility of rebuilding his ruin of a world. Eglantyne Jebb generationsleadershipchildren At this place, Jews have prayed throughout the generations, and it is fitting that the message of brotherhood should go out from here. Ehud Barak generationsbrotherhoodmessages Justice is based on values. And those change every generation. Eiichiro Oda valuesgenerationsjustice«2021222324252627282930»
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