Top Generation Quotes
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.
John Lennon
There is such a thing as food and such a thing as poison. But the damage done by those who pass off poison as food is far less than that done by those who generation after generation convince people that food is poison.
Paul Goodman
We now consider as fundamental economic functions of the state, many duties that were left a generation ago to chance.
Arthur Capper
It's the same thing now. When I go onstage the young people scream and holler as much as the older generation.
Etta James
Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
Henry David Thoreau
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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.
John Lennon 
84% of people like this quote
There is such a thing as food and such a thing as poison. But the damage done by those who pass off poison as food is far less than that done by those who generation after generation convince people that food is poison.
Paul Goodman
72% of people like this quote
We now consider as fundamental economic functions of the state, many duties that were left a generation ago to chance.
Arthur Capper
70% of people like this quote
It's the same thing now. When I go onstage the young people scream and holler as much as the older generation.
Etta James
68% of people like this quote
Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
Henry David Thoreau
68% of people like this quote
The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.
Abraham Lincoln
66% of people like this quote
Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.
Ronald Reagan
66% of people like this quote
Fortunes are made, and disappear, over the lifetime of a single generation. Today, a person in essence takes his wealth from society just for the duration of his or her lifetime. The next generation has to create it anew.
Mikhail Khodorkovsky
64% of people like this quote
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W. Somerset MaughamJoseph AddisonFranklin D. RooseveltAdlai E. StevensonJames MadisonGene TierneyWoodrow WilsonHenri Frederic AmielF. Scott FitzgeraldBette DavisMartin LutherSoren KierkegaardOrlando BloomBob DylanJohn Lennon
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