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:

    “The greatest significance of the present student generation is that it is through them that the point of view of the subjugated is finally and inexorably being expressed.”
    —James Baldwin (1924–1987)

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

    “This generation is very sure to plant corn and beans each new year precisely as the Indians did centuries ago and taught the first settlers to do, as if there were a fate in it.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)