Quotes by Generations Men die, but the plutocracy is immortal; and it is necessary that fresh generations should be trained to its service. Sinclair Lewis generationsshouldmen Every war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it. Simone de Beauvoir generationssacrificewar Every generation renews itself in its own way; there's always a reaction against whatever is standard. Sol LeWitt reactionsgenerationsway I think every generation has that movement of hip-hop that you know you're playing it and you definitely have that moment of like, "Why am I saying this so enthusiastically? Why am I so stoked and psyched to say these lyrics?" Solange Knowles generationship-hopthinking However much one generation learns from another, it can never learn from its predecessor the genuinely human factor. In this respect every generation begins afresh. Thus no generation has learned from another how to love, no generation can begin other than at the beginning. Soren Kierkegaard how-to-lovegenerationshumans The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap. Spiro T. Agnew gapsgenerationspast We pray for a generation of girls who will display their wit, their intelligence, their modest charm, their integrity, their loveliness rather than their bodies and their sexual possibilities. Spencer W. Kimball generationsgirlintegrity That which is truly human no generation learns from the one before it. No generation learns from another how to love. No generation has a shorter task assigned to it except insofar as the previous generation shirked its task and deluded itself. Soren Kierkegaard how-to-lovegenerationstasks Man is fatally slow on the uptake; it always takes him until the next generation to understand what's going on. Stanislaw Jerzy Lec nextgenerationsmen Had the employers of past generations all of them dealt fairly with their men there would have been no unions. Stanley Baldwin generationsmenpast I come from a generation in England that considered making money or trying to promote yourself to be morally suspect. Stanley Donwood generationsenglandtrying Men have slow reflexes. In general it takes several generations later for them to understand. Stanislaw Jerzy Lec generationsgrowthmen Much is written of the power of the Press, a power which may last but a day; by comparison little is heard of the power of books, which may endure for generations. Stanley Unwin generationslastsbook Any creative work that is truly alive is influenced by a thousand chance factors in its generation. Starhawk generationsalivecreative If you're from a certain generation, you basically learn to read with 'Peanuts.' It's sort of the template for the modern strip. Its influence ceased to be noticed because it's in everything. Stephan Pastis peanutsgenerationsinfluence It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one's generation. Stendhal prevailinggenerationsdisease Powell belongs, in fact to the first generation of American poets who may have grown up without even a vestigial connection to the accentual-syllabic, rhyming English tradition - his inventive lines have this absence at their back. Stephen Burt connectionsgenerationspoetry Luckily, growing up "unfinished" can make geeks the very best people to guide and nurture the next generation of outsiders: We know you don't have to be finished to be awesome. Stephen H. Segal generationsgrowing-uppeople Everybody makes money when times are good. It's when times are not so good that the groundwork is laid for the next generation. Stephen Harper making-moneynextgenerations My own field of paleontology has strongly challenged the Darwinian premise that life's major transformations can be explained by adding up, through the immensity of geological time, the successive tiny changes produced generation after generation by natural selection. Stephen Jay Gould paleontologygenerationsfields«7374757677787980818283»
