Four Generations Quotes

• It takes four generations to recover from every act of violence.

  Rebecca Adamson

  Generations, Four, Violence

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• I grew up in Minnesota. Four generations of my father's people are buried there.

  Peter Agre

  Father, People, Four

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• Eighteen might look at thirty-four through a rising mist of adolescence, but twenty-two would see thirty-eight with discerning clarity.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Eight, Two, Twenties

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.473, e-artnow

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• I knew I could never match my father as a violinist, and there were already four generations of outstanding cellists in the family.

  Leonard Slatkin

  Father, Generations, Four

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• One act of violence takes four generations to heal.

  Gloria Steinem

  Generations, Four, Violence

  Gloria Steinem (2015). “My Life on the Road”, p.156, Oneworld Publications

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• Darwin found out that when you took horses up to the high country in the Middle East, they would then grow long hair after a season or two. But when you took them - these long-haired horses - back into the low, hot country, they wouldn't get rid of the long hair, just in case, for about four generations.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Country, Horse, Two

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• Texas is my mind's country, that place I most want to understand and record and preserve. Four generations of my people sleep in its soil; I have children there, and a grandson; the dead past and the living future tie me to it.

  Larry L. King

  Country, Children, Sleep

  Larry L. King (1985). “Warning, Writer at Work: The Best Collectibles of Larry L. King”, p.164, TCU Press

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• Silver gray hair Neatly combed in place There were four generations Of love on her face She was so wise No surprise passed her eyes She's seen it all

  Dianne Reeves

  Wise, Grandma, Eye

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• America was built by immigrants. Almost nobody that I know is any more than three generations, maybe four generations, American.

  Michael Bloomberg

  America, Three, Generations

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• the miserable specimens who call themselves ' liberals ' are really conservatives: they're desperately even hysterically defending a welfare-warfare kleptocracy that is now at least four generations old, against growing numbers of us (unlike Republicans , who seem to become more ignorant with every passing year) who have actually managed to learn something from history and are struggling to dismantle said kleptocracy.

  L. Neil Smith

  Struggle, Numbers, Years

  "A Matter of Definition". The Libertarian Enterprise Article, www.ncc-1776.org. August 08, 2010.

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• The third guy was different. He was what you got when you ate squirrels for four generations. Smarter than a rat and tougher than a goat, and jumpier than either one.

  Lee Child

  Squirrels, Guy, Generations

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• I think it's going to take three or four generations of gay people being able to get married before it starts feeling less like we're going through these motions, that we're aping a heterosexual institution.

  Dan Savage

  Gay, Thinking, People

  Source: content.time.com

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• Television is the Antichrist, and I can assure you after only three or four generations, people will no longer even know how to fart on their own and humans will return to medieval savagery and to the general state of imbecility that slugs overcame back in the Pleistocene era. Our world will not die as a result of the bomb...it will die of laughter, of banality, of making a joke of everything and a lousy joke at that.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Laughter, Our World, People

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