Generations Quotes - Page 23

• My generation has failed miserably. We've failed because of lack of courage and vision. It requires more courage to keep the peace than to go to war.

  Fiorello H. La Guardia

  War, Vision, My Generation

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• A father must lead his children; but first he must learn to follow. He must laugh with them but remember the ache of childhood tears. He must hold the past with one hand and reach to the future with the other so there can be no generation gap in family love.

  June Masters Bacher

  Children, Father, Past

  June Masters Bacher (1979). “Quiet Moments for Women: A Daily Devotional”, Harvest House Pub

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• The suffering that food animals undergo, the suffering of those who eat them and profit by them, the suffering of starving people who could be fed with the grain that feeds these animals, and the suffering we thoughtlessly impose on the ecosystem, other creatures, and future generations are all interconnected. It is this interconnectedness of suffering, and its reverse, of love, caring, and awareness, that calls out for our understanding.

  Will Tuttle

  Caring, Animal, Ecosystems

  Will Tuttle (2007). “The World Peace Diet: Eating for Spiritual Health and Social Harmony”, p.145, Lantern Books

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• The 2 timeless drivers that underpin the behavior of every generation: the need to belong and the need to be significant. The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Mean, Needs, World

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• That is what is most special about achieving equality - the positive signal that it will send the world over to the next generation of girls dreaming of winning Wimbledon or becoming a scientist or going to the moon as an astronaut.

  Maria Sharapova

  Girl, Dream, Winning

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• In the great wealth, the great firmament of your nation's generosities this particular choice may perhaps be found by future generations as a trifle eccentric, but the mere fact of it . . . the prodigal, pure, human kindness of it . . . must be seen as a beautiful star in that firmament which shines upon me at this moment, dazzling me a little, but filling me with warmth of the extraordinary elation, the euphoria that happens to so many of us at the first breath of the majestic glow of a new tomorrow.

  Laurence Olivier

  Beautiful, Stars, Kindness

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• If I can leave a single message with the younger generation, it is to lash yourself to the mast, like Ulysses if you must, to escape the siren calls of complacency and indifference.

  Edward Kennedy

  Sirens, Complacency, Messages

  Edward Moore Kennedy (1979). “Our Day and Generation: The Words of Edward M. Kennedy”

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• A generation may bind itself as long as its majority continues in life; when that has disappeared, another majority is in place, holds all the rights and powers their predecessors once held, and may change their laws and institutions to suit themselves. Nothing then is unchangeable but the inherent and inalienable rights of man.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Rights, Law

  Thomas Jefferson (1977). “The Portable Thomas Jefferson”, p.459, Penguin

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• The present generation has the same right of self-government which the past one has exercised for itself.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Past, Government, Self

  Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). “Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts”, p.298, Rowman & Littlefield

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• I have a theory that self-made, first-generation actresses don't feel entitled to success.

  Natasha Lyonne

  Self, Actresses, Firsts

  "Fabulous Friends". Interview with Chloe Sevigny, www.harpersbazaar.com. May 22, 2014.

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• We don't know the spiritual advancements long-term veganism - over generations - would have for human life. It would be certainly a different civilisation, and the first one in the whole of our history that would truly deserve the title of being a civilisation.

  Donald Watson

  Spiritual, Long, Titles

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• The classical music scene was completely unfamiliar to me. A lot of people think of older generations and stuffiness. But it's not. You listen to the Overture of 1812, and you can hear a rock n' roll catharsis.

  Lola Kirke

  Thinking, Rocks, People

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• I grew up watching all the great Disney animated films and to be able to carry that torch and know that I'm contributing to the same magic and wonder for a whole new generation is a great thing.

  Jim Cummings

  Magic, Torches, Able

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• I get to be one of the torch-bearers for a new generation.

  Jim Cummings

  Torches, New Generation

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• With the passage of years, not all of Dicken's readers remained infatuated with his pathos. One generation's sublimity became another generation's kitsch.

  Peter Gay

  Years, Kitsch, Pathos

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• Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to create an earthly paradise. Who could expect that? But, if you make life ever so little better, you will have done splendidly, and your lives will have been worthwhile.
  Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.

  Roger Babson

  Character, Judgement, Trying

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• We've always had a tradition in America of hounding our artists to death. Look at the list of our great artists, you see a continual history of defeat, frustration, poverty, alcoholism, drug addiction. The best poets of my generation are all suicides.

  James Dickey

  Suicide, Artist, Frustration

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• I come from a generation where I couldn't even contemplate such a thing. I find it amazing... You can become a multi-millionaire as a club player without playing international football. But international football is about individual pride and wanting to perform at the highest level. If I got picked at 41, I would have played, even if I thought I would make a fool of myself. I just wanted to play for my country.

  Trevor Brooking

  Country, Football, Pride

  "Reports of Peter Crouch England retirement amaze Sir Trevor Brooking". www.theguardian.com. June 5, 2011.

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• I just think it should be illegal to call somebody fat on TV. . . . I think when it comes to the media, the media needs to take responsibility for the effect that it has on our younger generation, on these girls who are watching these television shows and picking up how to talk and how to be cool, so then all of a sudden being funny is making fun of the girl who's wearing an ugly dress.

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Girl, Fun, Responsibility

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• Moving swiftly between different arenas like politics, architecture or commercial design is what I would consider defintive of my generation. I am looking at reality and playing fast and loose with it.

  Sarah Morris

  Moving, Reality, Design

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• So, yeah, I mean, there is something universal about that feeling - that 20-something, what the hell am I going to do with my life, I'm lost and my parents are freaking me out, and what's the point? Every generation has a way of making that unique, but there are certain universals of that feeling.

  Zach Braff

  Mean, Unique, Parent

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• Jonny Lang has the power to move the music into the next millennium by reaching the ears of a new generation. The great musicians have the power to break all of the 'isms'-race, age, sex, et cetera. Jonny Lang is one of those musicians.

  Luther Allison

  Sex, Moving, Race

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• We have laid the foundation for a better life. Things that were unimaginable a few years ago have become everyday reality. I belong to the generation of leaders for whom the achievement of democracy was the defining challenge.

  Nelson Mandela

  Reality, Years, Achievement

  "Foes pay tribute as Mandela begins long goodbye" by Chris McGreal, www.theguardian.com. March 26, 1999.

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• Today I have lost one of my dearest friends, England one of her greatest men. Keith Joseph understood that it was necessary to win again the intellectual argument for freedom, and that to do this we must start from first principles. He was in many ways an unlikely revolutionary. For all his towering intellect, he was deeply humble. He spoke out boldly, however hostile the audience. Yet he hated to give offence. Above all, his integrity shone out in everything he said and did. His best memorial lies in the younger generations of politicians whom he inspired. But for me he is irreplaceable.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Lying, Integrity, Humble

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• One generation cannot bind another.

  Thomas Jefferson

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