Generations proverbs

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◆ Our generation has an incredible amount of realism, yet at the same time it loves to complain and not really change. Because, if it does change, then it won't have anything to complain about.

- Tori Amos98

◆ We're all so clogged with dead ideas passed from generation to generation that even the best of us don't know the way out

- Peter Weiss98

◆ Thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations, and thou shalt be called, the repairer of the breach, the restorer of paths to dwell in.

- Bible98

◆ Our strife pertains to ourselves - to the passing generations of men; and it can without convulsion be hushed forever with the passing of one generation

- Abraham Lincoln98

◆ Every generation tries to put its doctrine on a high shelf where the children can not reach it.

- Walter Rauschenbusch98

◆ The generations of living things pass in a short time, and like runners hand on the torch of life

- Lucretius98

◆ Every generation is convinced there has been a deplorable breakdown of manners

- Byron Dobell98

◆ (following 9/11) I grew up believing my generation would be better. We would be kinder, we would be more level-headed. We would be more loving. And so many people are missing.

- Jorja Fox98

◆ The older generation thought nothing of getting up at five every morning - and the younger generation doesn't think much of it either.

- John J Welsh98

◆ The reason people blame things on the previous generations is that there's only one other choice

- Doug Larson98

◆ It's one of nature's ways that we often feel closer to distant generations than to the generation immediately preceding us.

- Igor Stravinsky98

◆ Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late

- Thomas Sowell98

◆ Maybe you are the "cool" generation If coolness means a capacity to stay calm and use your head in the service of ends passionately believed in, then it has my admiration.

- Kingman Brewster98

◆ 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.

- Tony Blair98

◆ The living generation is bound to support them, as it would an aged and slightly zany parent.

- August Heckscher98