Older Generation Quotes - Page 2

• When we see society telling women that they have a certain time, that they make women compete with each other, the older generation competing with the younger generation. They've made us believe that there's not enough men out there for us or that we're only hired because of our looks and not because of our abilities.

  Karla Souza

  Believe, Men, Generations

  Source: www.sheknows.com

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• Mao Zedong Thought was not created by Comrade Mao alone - other revolutionaries of the older generation played a part in forming and developing it - but primarily it embodies Comrade Mao's thinking. Nevertheless, victory made him less prudent, so that in his later years some unsound features and unsound ideas, chiefly "Left" ones, began to emerge. In quite a number of instances he went counter to his own ideas, counter to the fine and correct propositions he had previously put forward, and counter to the style of work he himself had advocated.

  Deng Xiaoping

  Thinking, Years, Ideas

  Source: blog.hiddenharmonies.org

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• Today's comedian has a cross to bear that he built himself. A comedian of the older generation did an act and he told the audience, This is my act. Today's comic is not doing an act. The audience assumes he's telling the truth. What is truth today may be a damn lie next week.

  Lenny Bruce

  Lying, Next Week, Comedian

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• I was so upset with what was going on in the world. I just couldn't stand the idea of being people tortured and that we even had such a thing as war. I hated the older generation, who had not done anything about it. Punk was a call-to-arms for me.

  Vivienne Westwood

  War, Ideas, People

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• The schools would fail through their silence, the Church through its forgiveness, and the home through the denial and silence of the parents. The new generation has to hear what the older generation refuses to tell it.

  Simon Wiesenthal

  Forgiveness, Home, School

  Simon Wiesenthal (1976). “The sunflower”, Schocken

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• I always want to tell these young idealists that the world is not as dangerous as many in the older generation want them to believe...The [people] for whom I feel the greatest sadness are the ones who choke on their beliefs, who never act on their ideals, who never know the state of struggle in a decent cause, and never know the thrill of even partial victories.

  Jonathan Kozol

  Struggle, Believe, Sadness

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• If many of our young people have lost the excitement of the early settlers, who had a country to explore and develop, it is because no one remembers to tell them that the world has never been so challenging, so exciting... Perhaps the older generation is often to blame with its cautious warning: “Take a job that will give you security, not adventure.” But I say to the young: “Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, and imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of a competence.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Country, Jobs, Adventure

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• What I tell these young people is, the world is not as dangerous as the older generation would like you to believe. Anyone I know who has ever taken a risk and lost a job has ended up getting a better one two years later.

  Jonathan Kozol

  Jobs, Taken, Believe

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• It's fascinating to work with a company of actors of such different ages, experience and talents. I'm one of a generation brought up on television whose acting is more 'naturalistic', whereas with some of the older generation it's more heightened. But I think there's room for both styles.

  David Oyelowo

  Thinking, Style, Age

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• On my US tour maybe three out of 30 shows there was an Elvis impersonator in the crowd but that's it. I usually get younger fans, and those that come that are of an older generation end up walking out because it's too loud

  Lisa Marie Presley

  Fans, Three, Generations

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• What has been forgotten is that there were major intellectual breakthroughs in the 1960s, thanks to North American writers of an older generation. There was a rupture in continuity, since most young people influenced by those breakthroughs did not enter the professions.

  Camille Paglia

  People, Intellectual, Generations

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• It's the same thing now. When I go onstage the young people scream and holler as much as the older generation.

  Etta James

  Glowing, People, Generations

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• Schooling, by definition, must be conservative. It is naturally dependent on an older generation’s level of knowledge and sense of values.

  Leon Botstein

  Generations, Levels, Definitions

  Leon Botstein (1997). “Jefferson's Children: Education and the Promise of American Culture”

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• I cannot think that a player genuinely loving the game can get pleasure just from the number of points scored no matter how impressive the total. I will not speak of myself, but for the masters of the older generation, from whose games we learned, the aesthetic side was the most important. -

  Alexander Kotov

  Beauty, Thinking, Player

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• The ukulele has always appealed to the older generation.

  Jake Shimabukuro

  Ukulele, Generations

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• No matter your situation, you can make family history a part of your life right now. Primary children can draw a family tree. Youth can participate in proxy baptisms. They can also help the older generation work with computers. Parents can relate stories of their lives to their posterity. Worthy adult members can hold a temple recommend and perform temple ordinances for their own kin.

  Russell M. Nelson

  Children, Tree, Parent

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• I've always written. I'm from an older generation of programmers [who] did not come out of engineering. [A]ll sorts of people were drawn in from the social sciences and humanities.

  Ellen Ullman

  Engineering, People, Humanity

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• I think there's a whole older generation that will go to movies still. People like me; people over 45.

  Oliver Stone

  Thinking, People, Generations

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• You have the older generation like Iris Murdoch and Angus Wilson who are not as old as Graham Greene, but still are coming on. I dare say anyone who knew the scene better than I know it could fill it in with a very satisfactory supply of novels.

  William Golding

  Irises, Generations, Scene

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• Until recently each generation found it more expedient to plead guilty to the charge of being young and ignorant, easier to take the punishment meted out by the older generation (which had itself confessed to the same crime short years before). The command to grow up at once was more bearable than the faceless horror of wavering purpose, which was youth.

  Maya Angelou

  Life, Growing Up, Years

  Maya Angelou (2009). “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings”, p.267, Random House

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• I do think it's fascinating to see a play where everybody's sort of, in various ways, uprooted, and you see the older generation, the parents, whose faith has been something concrete that has guided them through a specific set of hurdles and circumstances.

  Stephen Karam

  Thinking, Play, Parent

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• [A] new generation, innocent of the divisions of the Cold War, this coming-of-age. ... If its members do not feel the urgency to escape the nuclear danger that some of its parents felt, neither has it developed the deep attachment to nuclear arms also often found among their parents, including most of the governing class. ... The call for abolition should therefore be, among other things, a call from an older generation to younger one.

  Jonathan Schell

  War, Attachment, Class

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• Although their parents died in the wilderness for their stubbornness, Israel could profit from the older generation's failure by remembering that God had used adversity to train them.

  Max Anders

  Adversity, Israel, Parent

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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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• Jazz celebrates older generations and not just the youth movement. When you "sell" only to people of a certain age, you get cut off from the main body of experience. The power of couple dancing and courtship, it's elegant, and you wouldn't realize America was once a nation of dancers and singers today. People of all races could dance and sing.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Couple, Cutting, America

  Interview with Vickie Karp, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 18, 2009.

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