Famous quotes containing the words previous and/or generation:
“History is fond of her grandchildren, for it offers them the marrow of the bones, which the previous generation had hurt its hands in breaking.”
—Nikolai Gavrilovich Chernyshevsky (1828–1889)
“Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation.”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)