Take a closer look at your family; you are bound to find that there exist different age groups in the same. Each age group you may notice will belong to a different generation. It can start off with grandparents belonging to a particular generation, parents belonging to the next and lastly the kids belong to a whole new generation. If you are looking to appreciate the warmth and love of your family, all you have got to do is read on to discover a few quotations and sayings on age groups and generations.
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Generations Quotes
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Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.
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I could never have imagined that firing 67 people on national television would actually make me more popular, especially with the younger generation.
Donald Trump |
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Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.
Herbert Hoover |
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Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.
Herbert Hoover |
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The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of opinion and detail, is the one that must rule all observation.
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Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem - in my opinion - to characterize our age.
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Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
George Orwell |
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When you look at Prince Charles, don't you think that someone in the Royal family knew someone in the Royal family?
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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.
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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.
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I think it better to do right, even if we suffer in so doing, than to incur the reproach of our consciences and posterity.
Robert E. Lee |
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I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked.
Allen Ginsberg |
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The function of posterity is to look after itself.
Dylan Thomas |
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I think it was that we were really seasoned musicians. We had serious roots that spanned different cultures, obviously the blues.
Jimmy Page |
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I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed.
Ralph Ellison |
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Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade. It is a perpetual process embedded in the human spirit.
Abbie Hoffman |
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We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go.
Timothy Leary |
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Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.
Abdul Kalam |
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I'm one of those people you hate because of genetics. It is the truth.
Brad Pitt |
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Great authors are admirable in this respect: in every generation they make for disagreement. Through them we become aware of our differences.
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What our children have to fear is not the cars on the highways of tomorrow but our own pleasure in calculating the most elegant parameters of their deaths.
J. G. Ballard |
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I think the biggest problem in the world is that we have a generation of young people, and maybe two, who don't think it's going to get any better.
John Denver |
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An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever after wards.
F. Scott Fitzgerald |
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Each generation wants new symbols, new people, new names. They want to divorce themselves from their predecessors.
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Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
Carl Sagan |
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As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost.
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For the very first time the young are seeing history being made before it is censored by their elders.
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History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.
Lord Acton |
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You know, a long time ago being crazy meant something. Nowadays everybody's crazy.
Charles Manson |
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These children that come at you with knives, they are your children. You taught them. I didn't teach them. I just tried to help them stand up.
Charles Manson |
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How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.
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Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it.
John Quincy Adams |
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For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are devoted to the physical and spiritual nourishment of its inhabitants.
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Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.
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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.
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We need to remember across generations that there is as much to learn as there is to teach.
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The Constitution of the United States was made not merely for the generation that then existed, but for posterity- unlimited, undefined, endless, perpetual posterity.
Henry Clay |
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Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile.
Henry B. Adams |
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One changes from day to day, and... after a few years have passed one has completely altered.
George Sand |
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He plants trees to benefit another generation.
Caecilius Statius |
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A young boy is a theory, an old man is a fact.
Ed Howe |
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A unique and indelible influence on generations of music makers.
Carlos Santana |
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Our fathers had their dreams; we have ours; the generation that follows will have its own. Without dreams and phantoms man cannot exist.
Olive Schreiner |
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Too many people today know the price of everything and the value of nothing.
Ann Landers |
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I created Punk for this day and age. Do you see Britney walking around wearing ties and singing punk? Hell no. That's what I do. I'm like a Sid Vicious for a new generation.
Avril Lavigne |
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The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done.
Jean Piaget |
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Each generation of the church in each setting has the responsibility of communicating the gospel in understandable terms, considering the language and thought-forms of that setting.
Francis Schaeffer |
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I have come to the conclusion that none of us in our generation feels as guilty about sin as we should or as our forefathers did.
Francis Schaeffer |
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My dad spent his whole life getting into fights for telling what he believed to be the truth. Basically it comes from my dad-and he's screaming right-wing, so there you are.
Thom Yorke |
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I'm a huge Groucho fan. There were some great comic minds that would transfer into any generation, and Groucho is certainly one of them.
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I used to think that all my Wings stuff was second-rate stuff, but I began to meet younger kids, not kids from my Beatles generation, who would say, We really love this song.
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The year I was born, 1956, was the peak year for babies being born, and there are more people essentially our age than anybody else. We could crush these new generations if we decided too.
Tom Hanks |
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We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.
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Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.
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We were all on this ship in the sixties, our generation, a ship going to discover the New World. And the Beatles were in the crow's nest of that ship.
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Mine is the first generation able to contemplate the possibility that we may live our entire lives without going to war or sending our children to war.
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When the cost curve comes down and the standards stabilize, the third generation of DVD-RAM is probably going to become dominant.
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I think one of the nicest things that we created as a generation was just the fact that we could say, 'Hey, I don't like white people.'
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The conscious process is reflected in the imagination; the unconscious process is expressed as karma, the generation of actions divorced from thinking and alienated from feeling.
William Irwin Thompson |
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The only true retirement is that of the heart; the only true leisure is the repose of the passions. To such persons it makes little difference whether they are young or old; and they die as they have lived, with graceful resignation.
William Hazlitt |
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I turned down a scholarship to Yale. The problem with college is that there's a tendency to mistake preparation for productivity. You can prepare all you want, but if you never roll the dice you'll never be successful.
Shia LaBeouf |
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I, like many members of my generation, was concerned with segregation and the repeated violation of civil rights.
Joseph E. Stiglitz |
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Just as Hanukkah candles are lighted one by one from a single flame, so the tale of the miracle is passed from one man to another, from one house to another, and to the whole House of Israel throughout the generations.
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