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Quotes about generations
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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. (Valois Ninette de)
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young. (Valois Ninette de)
What one generation sees as a luxury, the next sees as a necessity. (Valois Ninette de)
We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority, to bind themselves, but none to bind the succeeding generation, more than the inhabitants of another country. (Valois Ninette de)
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We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free of their authority. (Valois Ninette de)
From the earliest times the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser than they, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture. (Valois Ninette de)
The old know what they want; the young are sad and bewildered. (Valois Ninette de)
Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation. (Valois Ninette de)
I suppose you think that persons who are as old as your father and myself are always thinking about very grave things, but I know that we are meditating the same old themes that we did when we were ten years old, only we go more gravely about it. (Valois Ninette de)
Eighteen might look at thirty-four through a rising mist of adolescence; but twenty-two would see thirty-eight with discerning clarity. (Valois Ninette de)
It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous. (Valois Ninette de)
The longer I live the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for us. (Valois Ninette de)
“We are the generation that brought the bomb in. We have got to be the generation that should take it out.” (Valois Ninette de)
For my generation to turn 30-we were all very scared of it. Turned out it was nothing. (Valois Ninette de)
Field of Dreams is probably our generation's It's A Wonderful Life. (Valois Ninette de)
“I don't know who Peter Lorre is. Pathetic right? It shows you how completely gross and uncultured my generation is.” (Valois Ninette de)
And I know that the younger generation is doing things that are so ingenious. And for them it's not a matter of a political belief or an environmental stance. It's really just common sense. (Valois Ninette de)
“No matter Fearless is warmly received or not, I hope young Chinese generation can appreciate it from the point of the world rather than being confined to the Chinese culture and movie. It is a narrow idea that Chinese Kong Fu must defeat all the foreigners.” (Valois Ninette de)
Things change in different countries as people grow, and as generations change. (Valois Ninette de)
Who will take responsibility for raising the next generation? (Valois Ninette de)
You know, I come from six generations of college graduates. (Valois Ninette de)
Hence, within the space of two generations there has been a complete revolution in the attitude of the trades-unions toward the women working in their trades. (Valois Ninette de)
That generation of Germans, along with volunteers from Denmark, Holland, even England and the Free India division and so on, we Europeans were alert and awake to the danger of Bolshevism. (Valois Ninette de)
Hardly any generation wants to take the whole of the last generation, it just wants to take its best bits. (Valois Ninette de)
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