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Each Generation Quotes

We’ve collected the best Each Generation Quotes from the greatest minds of the world: Nancy Dubuc, Valerie Jarrett, Freddie Fox, Michael Eric Dyson, Harriet Walter. Use them as an inspiration.

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Each generation wants their own form of entertainment and their own form of storytelling.
Nancy Dubuc
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Each generation has an obligation to pick up the baton. We want young people to feel a sense of responsibility to take that baton and run with it.
Valerie Jarrett
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I think each generation struggles with its own set of problems.
Freddie Fox
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I’m a ‘tweener,’ man! I couldn’t march with Dr. King and them. And I’m too old to be a hip-hopper. But I’ve been granted honorary status in each generation… I see my tongue as a bridge over which ideas can travel back and forth.
Michael Eric Dyson
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Luckily, each generation brings forth great writers, actors, directors, and designers.
Harriet Walter
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Each generation is smarter than the generation before, and they need total diversion and encouragement and things to think about.
Martha Stewart
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You can’t grow if you‘re going to say: ‘The contributions of my predecessors are greater than anything I can ever achieve.’ Each generation has to have a chance to find itself.
Christian Scott
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Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The modern minds in each generation are the critics who preserve us from a petrifying world, who will not leave us to walk undisturbed in the ways of our fathers.
Edith Hamilton
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Each generation wants new symbols, new people, new names. They want to divorce themselves from their predecessors.
Jim Morrison
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Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made.
Bill Cosby
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With each generation, women‘s ability to live the lives they choose reaches a place their grandmothers never thought possible. But that doesn’t mean everything is perfect or that our work is finished.
Cathy McMorris Rodgers
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In the end, the American dream is not a sprint, or even a marathon, but a relay. Our families don’t always cross the finish line in the span of one generation. But each generation passes on to the next the fruits of their labor.
Julian Castro
14
Literary generations come and go, and each generation passeth away and is heard of no more. In the end, simply the making itself – of poems and stories and essays – delivers the only reward a writer can be sure of. And, perhaps, the only one that matters.
Michael Dirda
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Every generation inherits a world it never made; and, as it does so, it automatically becomes the trustee of that world for those who come after. In due course, each generation makes its own accounting to its children.
Robert Kennedy
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Each generation doubtless feels called upon to reform the world. Mine knows that it will not reform it, but its task is perhaps even greater. It consists in preventing the world from destroying itself.
Albert Camus
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Each generation is trusted with protecting our open spaces and natural resources to pass them on to future Americans to enjoy.
Mikie Sherrill
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History has proven that each generation of Howard graduates will forge the way forward for our country and our world.
Kamala Harris
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Each generation seems to invent its own reasons for war.
Walter Dean Myers
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Each generation must recreate liberty for its own times.
Florence Ellinwood Allen
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Lucky individuals in each generation find technology appropriate to their needs.
Freeman Dyson
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Each generation faces different issues and challenges, but our standard must always be measured by God‘s word.
Billy Graham
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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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That’s maybe the most important thing each generation does, is to break a lot of rules and make up their own way of doing things.
Jackson Browne
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The case for freedom, the case for our constitutional principles the case for our heritage has to be made anew in each generation. The work of freedom is never done.
Anthony Kennedy
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Our ideals, laws and customs should be based on the proposition that each generation in turn becomes the custodian rather than the absolute owner of our resources – and each generation has the obligation to pass this inheritance on in the future.
Alberto Moravia
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Trouble is, kids feel they have to shock their elders and each generation grows up into something harder to shock.
Ben Lindsey
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Our families don’t always cross the finish line in the span of one generation. But each generation passes on to the next the fruits of their labor.
Julian Castro
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The amazing fact is that America is founded on a document. It’s a work in progress. It can be tested by each generation.
Christopher Hitchens
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Each generation, as it seeks to advance the common good, must ask anew: ‘What are the requirements that governments may reasonably impose upon citizens, and how far do they extend? By appeal to what authority can moral dilemmas be resolved?’
Pope Benedict XVI
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Each generation should be made to bear the burden of its own wars, instead of carrying them on, at the expense of other generations.
James Madison
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I’m trying to tell the story of the evolution of America. Each biography is a life in time, and I can see there’s a particular task for each generation that I write about.
H. W. Brands
33
The people of each generation perceive the state of the ecosystems they encountered in their childhood as normal and natural. When wildlife is depleted, we might notice the loss, but we are unaware that the baseline by which we judge the decline is in fact a state of extreme depletion.
George Monbiot
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Each generation has a backlash against the generation before.
Jo Brand
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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.
Thomas Jefferson
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It is a quirk of American culture that each generation of nonconservatives sees the right-wingers of its own generation as the scary ones, then chooses to remember the right-wingers of the last generation as sort of cuddly.
Rick Perlstein
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Each generation looks to its children to keep our society moving and to make life better.
Janet Reno
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This nation is never finished. It has to be re-created in each generation.
Lee H. Hamilton
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Each generation of pilots hopes that they will leave their profession better off than they found it.
Chesley Sullenberger
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Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors.
Emil Cioran