Generation

Generation

Generation (from the Latin generāre, meaning "to beget"), also known as procreation in biological sciences, is the act of producing offspring.

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Famous quotes containing the word generation:

    “What an infernal set of fools those schoolmarms must be! Well, if in order to please men they wish to live on air, let them. The sooner the present generation of women dies out, the better. We have idiots enough in the world now without such women propagating any more.”
    —Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815–1902)

    “One generation abandons the enterprises of another like stranded vessels.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “Every generation rediscovers and re-evaluates the meaning of infancy and childhood.”
    —Arnold Gesell (20th century)