Once In A Generation Quotes

#1. In 2005 we have a once in a generation opportunity to deliver a modern Marshall plan for the developing world.

Gordon Brown

#2. Only once in a generation does anything as fresh as a vomiting detective come along.

Dean Koontz

#3. A John Updike is a once-in-a-generation phenomenon, if that generation is lucky: so comfortable in so many genres, the same lively, generous intelligence suffusing all he did.

George Saunders

#4. Tax reform is a once-in-a-generation opportunity.

Max Baucus

#5. The effect of AIDS was like a war in a minute country. Like, in World War I, a whole generation of Englishmen died all at once. And with AIDS, a whole generation of gay men died practically all at once, within a couple of years.

Fran Lebowitz

#6. The combinatory agility of words," he wrote in "Not-Knowing," "the exponential generation of meaning once they're allowed to go to bed together, allows the writer to surprise himself, makes art possible, reveals how much of Being we haven't yet encountered.

Donald Barthelme

#7. In every generation women have to be taught their place one more time. The subordination of women is never accomplished for once and for all.

Rosemary Radford Ruether

#8. You only get married the first time once. There was the philosophy of a generation wrapped up in a tidy little sentence

Carrie Vaughn

#9. If a Black Death could be spread throughout the world once in every generation survivors could procreate freely without making the world too full.

Bertrand Russell

#10. Mortality, a writer of my generation once said, trumps morality.

Robert Charles Wilson

#11. As scientists, we step on the shoulders of science, building on the work that has come before us - aiming to inspire a new generation of young scientists to continue once we are gone.

Stephen Hawking

#12. Once a man had thrust his hands into the soil and knew the grit of it between his teeth, he felt something rise within him that was not of his day or generation, but had persisted through birth and death from a time beyond recall.

Martha Ostenso

#13. Once your children are grown up and have children of their own, the problems are theirs and the less the older generation interferes the better.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#14. Once a fellow's enjoying the fruits of government health care and all the rest, he couldn't give a hoot about the general societal interest; he's got his, and if it's going to bankrupt the state of a generation hence, well, as long as they can keep the checks coming till he's dead, it's fine by him.

Mark Steyn

#15. Each and every time, a new generation has risen up and done what's needed to be done. Today we are called once more - and it is time for our generation to answer that call. For that is our unyielding faith - that in the face of impossible odds, people who love their country can change it.

Barack Obama

#16. My
gad," one of them, warrant officer pilot, captain and M. C. in turn said to me once; "if
you can treat a crate that way, why do you want to fly at all?

William Faulkner

#17. Michael Jackson was not an artist who comes along once in a decade, a generation, or a lifetime. He was an artist who comes along only once, period ... He raised the bar and then BROKE the bar!

Berry Gordy

#18. The firsthand and the inter-generational experience, is the key, without it there is no memory once that first generation is gone.

Suzanna Eibuszyc

#19. Thought once awakened does not again slumber; unfolds itself into a System of Thought; grows, in man after man, generation after generation, - till its full stature is reached, and such System of Thought can grow no farther, but must give place to another.

Thomas Carlyle

#20. Ungrace does its work quietly and lethally, like a poisonous, undetectable gas. A father dies unforgiven. A mother who once carried a child in her own body does not speak to that child for half its life. The toxin steals on, from generation to generation.

Philip Yancey

#21. Once the cry and the cause of a generation of progressives to make America safer, fairer and cleaner, 'regulation' is now a dirty word in our politics. Even Democrats are quick to talk about cutting regulations; Republicans hate them with - how to put it? - evangelical fervor.

Jon Meacham

#22. I never threw an illegal pitch. The trouble is, once in a while I toss one that ain't never been seen by this generation.

Satchel Paige

#23. Remember what one of our philosophers once said, 'In the human heart there is a perpetual generation of passions, such that the ruin of one is almost always the foundation of another.

Richard Castle