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Generations Quotes


"It was both Abraham's and the Jews' privilege also that they should have this promise to all generations."


"There was a big question as to whether or not different generations have grown up differently."


"Perhaps most ridiculous of all is the suggestion that we 'keep' our radioactive garbage for the use of our descendants. This 'solution', I think, requires an immediate poll of the next 20,000 generations."


"Genetics is about how information is stored and transmitted between generations."


"Hopefully, generations after us will continue to protect, preserve, and look after this wonderful land."


"I think for writers who write that kind of stuff, they want to make changes. Look at Kris Kristofferson and Dylan. I mean, whole generations come along liking that stuff and that's great."


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


"Families don't make projects for five years, they make projects for generations."


"Every new generation believes its own period to be absolutely superior intellectually - greater than all past cultures yet equal among its modern cultures."


"Each generation searches their memories for time lost, feels the urgent exigencies of the present, and worries about the uncertainty of the future. Akin to preceding generations, how we live, the choices we make for surviving and loving, is our story."


"I can assume that the younger generations will no longer know what vinyl was. Maybe some kids will take their CD back to the shop, telling the shop owner they have a faulty disc and if they could please get a new one."


"The most unlucky generation is the one which couldn't produce a hero to look upto."


"There are many problems which could only be solved by generations which are still to be born later. It's only one way of many how God gives answers to human problems and prayers."


"The problem with parents is that they're adults."


"One age misunderstands another, and a petty age misunderstands all the others in its own nasty way."


"They were the sisterhood: their mothers at a younger age."


"Now, how do the young prepare to meet the old? The same way the old prepare to meet the young: with a little condescension; with low expectation of the other's rationality; with the knowledge that the other will find what they say hard to understand, that it will go beyond them (not so much over the head as between the legs); and with the feeling that they must arrive with something the other will like, something suitable."
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