Generations Quotes - Page 5

• It's one of nature's way that we often feel closer to distant generations than to the generation immediately preceding us.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Relationship, Nature, Grandma

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• I'm doing research for a large comic book on the Beat Generation guys - Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac and those guys

  Harvey Pekar

  Book, Guy, Research

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• I was the female Marlon Brando of my generation.

  Bette Davis

  Brando, My Generation

  "The Lonely Life: An Autobiography".

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• We are a generation of settlers, and without the steel helmet and gun barrel, we shall not be able to plant a tree or build a house.

  Moshe Dayan

  Gun, House, Tree

  "The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World". Book by Avi Shlaim, 2000.

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• You know I've got a generator that's still popping.

  Chita Rivera

  Stills, Knows, Popping

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• I cannot tell you what it means when children recognize. This is about the third generation for me. And when kids that small recognize me, it really pleases me, very gratifying.

  Dick Van Dyke

  Children, Mean, Kids

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• My father's generation gave to my generation a land of wealth and purpose and world economic dominance.

  Paul Tsongas

  Father, Land, Purpose

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• Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan had tremendous influence on generations of American because, even if people disagreed with them, they admired them because they made very strong commitments to things they believed in.

  Phil Crane

  Strong, Commitment, People

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• I like to do theater and hopefully be effective. Most actors, at least contemporary actors of my generation, can't do it. They don't have the chops.

  Jeffrey Wright

  Actors, Theater, Hopefully

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• Well, the big elephant in the whole system is the baby boomer generation that marches through like a herd of elephants. And we begin to retire in 2008.

  Lindsey Graham

  Girl, Baby, Elephants

  "Social Security Debate Starts on a Good Note". "Special Report" with Jim Angel, www.foxnews.com. March 16, 2005.

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• Some of the lowest-paid workers in this nation are people that we ask to watch the next generation of Americans. We do a better job insisting that your pets are cared for in this country than your children are, and there ought to be a sense of outrage about that.

  Christopher Dodd

  Country, Jobs, Children

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• When you build a memorial, you build it not because the person wanted it, but for the future -- for generations who didn't know the man and didn't know the era in which he lived.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Men, Memorial, Eras

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• Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.

  Gro Harlem Brundtland

  Future, Needs, Development

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• Mine is the first generation able to contemplate the possibility that we may live our entire lives without going to war or sending our children to war.

  Tony Blair

  Children, War, May

  "What to Call Tony: Analysts Review Blair Legacy". Interview with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. June 26, 2007.

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• He had a massive stroke. He died with his tie on. Do you think that could be our generation's equivalent of that old saying about dying with your boots on?

  Stephen King

  Thinking, Our Generation, Ties

  Stephen King (2008). “The Stand”, p.361, Anchor

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• Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.

  Henrik Tikkanen

  Time, Future, Kids

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• The awakening of the people of China to the possibilities under free government is the most significant, if not the most momentous, event of our generation.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Government, Our Generation, People

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1978). “The papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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• The new generation of Labour is different. Different attitudes, different ideas, different ways of doing politics.

  Ed Miliband

  Attitude, Marijuana, Ideas

  "Labour conference: Ed Miliband speech in full". www.theguardian.com. September 28, 2010.

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• It's very important for men to look downward, to the next generation

  James Hillman

  Men, Important, Looks

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• Whole generations have forgotten history.

  Pierre Salinger

  Forgotten, Whole

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• Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Graduation

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• I'm optimistic that we are actually seeing the opportunity of a generation being created in this.

  Peter Mandelson

  Optimistic, Opportunity, Vision

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• Great authors are admirable in this respect: in every generation they make for disagreement. Through them we become aware of our differences.

  Andre Gide

  Respect, Differences, Literature

  Andre Gide (2017). “Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality”, p.93, Routledge

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• If we care about the children, the grandchildren, the future generations, we need to make sure that they do not become the cannon fodder of the future.

  Helen Thomas

  Children, Needs, Literature

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• You can take as much as you can from the generation that has preceded you, but then it's up to you to make something new.

  Jackson Browne

  Up To You, Something New

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