Five Generations Quotes

#1. Six hundred summers, she reflected.Six hundred snowy winters. Thirty-five generations of mortal
humanity. And finally, again ... the sun.

Greg Cox

#2. I am not doing any favour, only performing a duty; this victory is a result of struggle of five generations.

Narendra Modi

#3. We have been through four and five generations of technology since the PATRIOT Act.

Carly Fiorina

#4. Eccentricity, to be socially acceptable, had still to have at least four or five generations of inbreeding behind it.

Osbert Lancaster

#5. I think of the five generations it will take before [Mr. Perfect]'s born, and I want to scream. I want someone now. I want someone who will look into my eyes and understand everything behind them.

Jessica Khoury

#6. even if you count back only four or five generations, you have an enormous number of living biological relatives descended from those ancestors. This is why it's not very unusual if you are descended from George Washington or another founding father or mother.

James Peoples

#7. My family have been around Northumberland for five generations.

Kevin Whately

#8. My family's lineage is five generations of artists who never made it.

Shia Labeouf

#9. A distant cousin sent me some genealogy report on my father's side, and it's sort of what I suspected. Coal miners for generations ... four or maybe five generations.

Gina McKee

#10. In four of five generations, sexual orientation will disappear and we'll just fall in love with people

Brad Boney

#11. The history of any private family, however humble, could it be fully related for five or six generations, would illustrate the state and progress of society better than the most elaborate dissertation.

Robert Southey

#12. Five hundred and fifty generations have lived here. Only the stories we tell each other will create us as a true Canadian people.

Rudy Wiebe

#13. I noticed that the houses in Fort Smith were numbered but it was no city at all compared to Little Rock. I thought then and still think that Fort Smith ought to be in Oklahoma instead of Arkansas ...

Charles Portis

#14. A transplanted Irishman, German, Englishman is an American in one generation. A transplanted African is not one in five!

Barbara Chase-Riboud

#15. Sexuality is not a leisure or part-time activity. It is a way of being.

Alexander Lowen

#16. I don't do fashion, I'm fashion

Coco Chanel

#17. South of him, and below the Rim, Laredo

Jim Mayo

#18. Healing invokes the power of compassion, both for yourself and for others ... At this point, the healed may become a healer.

David Hawkins

#19. Every American who served in Iraq helped to make our nation safer, gave twenty-five million people the chance to live in freedom, and changed the direction of the Middle East for generations to come. There are things we got wrong in Iraq, but that cause is eternally right.

George W. Bush

#20. In the twenty-five years that have passed since the ending of the World War when the people of this country emerged from generations of humiliation under foreign occupation, we have accomplished much to our credit, overcome many difficulties and changed the course of our history.

Tunku Abdul Rahman

#21. Peace is not absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.

Ronald Reagan

#22. A charity dollar has only one life; a Social Business dollar can be invested over and over again.

Muhammad Yunus

#23. Paintings, like tombstones, will last a good five hundred years, well into twenty or thirty generations.

Robert Genn

#24. But how can you be God, if Justice is more powerful than you?" I am his daughter, five hundred generations from him. Shouldn't the children of God learn something in that time? Lared

Orson Scott Card

#25. I've been pitching a show of five female stand-up comedians through the generations, from Phyllis Diller to Amy Schumer, so when I got an e-mail asking me if I would participate in the Women in Comedy Festival, I was thrilled.

Wendy Liebman

#26. Just because many modern academics are very secular does not mean that we should ignore those factors in earlier generations - and by that, I don't just mean five or six centuries ago.

Philip Jenkins

#27. He was protecting me with just the tips of his fingers, like five miniature copies of his heart touching my skin.

Megan Duke

#28. Love, Allie concluded, wasn't blind, it simply saw alternate dimensions.

Neal Shusterman

#29. I've always been the annoying kid who sang.

Darren Criss

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

Achille Maramotti

#31. During five literary generations every enlightened person had despised him, and at the end of that time nine-tenths of those enlightened persons are forgotten and Kipling is in some sense still there.

George Orwell

#32. I was naming the five warriors of our generation who have experience, four out of five I would argue were retired early out of the [Barack] Obama administration because they said things the Obama administration didn't particularly want to hear.

Carly Fiorina

#33. In total this journey will take five flights and fifty-five hours, but in reality it began four decades and two generations ago when my uncle died in Vietnam.

Tucker Elliot