Previous Generations Quotes - Page 2

• It's a mysterious thing that a whole generation of young people can come up and see and understand things that previous generations weren't able to see or understand.

  Glenn Branca

  Mysterious Things, People, Generations

  Interview with Simon Dasher, pitchfork.com. April 30, 2006.

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• It is a wise provision that youth cannot see what it owes the previous generation. This is a chicken that comes back to roost in heavier years.

  Miles Franklin

  Wise, Years, Generations

  Miles Franklin (2014). “Some Everyday Folk and Dawn”, p.93, Simon and Schuster

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• Myths, legends and stories are the signposts previous generations have left us so we don't have to figure out our own personal journey in solitude!
  They have to be metaphorical, because their interpretation will be different for each individual life!

  Fred Van Lente

  Journey, Solitude, Different

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• The previous generation, such as Alec Stewart and Nasser Hussain, lost to Australia on many occasions.

  Andrew Strauss

  Australia, Generations, Hussain

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• 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.

  Nikolay Chernyshevsky

  Hurt, Grandchildren, Hands

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• You [young people] all are just much more internationally-minded and traveled and knowledgeable in languages than any other previous generation. So many of you are already doing a lot of international relations, I think. I so believe in student networks, and people that either study abroad or come to the United States to study, and the relationships that you all develop. You learn a lot from each other, but you all will see each other again in jobs along the way. And I think that makes a big difference. I so believe in what students can do.

  Madeleine Albright

  Jobs, Believe, Thinking

  Source: www.chicagomaroon.com

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• Evie hadn’t always felt that way. For a year after James had died, she’d cupped his half-dollar pendant between her pressed palms and prayed fervently for a miracle, for a telegram that would say GOOD NEWS! IT WAS A TERRIBLE MISTAKE, AND PRIVATE JAMES XAVIER O’NEILL HAS BEEN FOUND, SAFE, IN A FARMHOUSE IN FRANCE. But no such telegram ever arrived, and whatever possible faith might have bloomed in Evie withered and died. Now she saw it as just another advertisement for a life that belonged to a previous generation and held no meaning for hers.

  Libba Bray

  Mistake, Years, Miracle

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• The reason people blame things on the previous generation is that there's only one other choice.

  Doug Larson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Responsibility

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• These are challenging and exciting times. No previous generation of Australians has ever had such an opportunity. No other country in the world has such an opportunity now. So long as we retain faith in ourselves, practise tolerance and reward initiative, we should be in no doubt about succeeding.

  John Yu

  Leadership, Country, Opportunity

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• The best advice that I can give you is this. Church-traditions — especially when they do not run counter to the faith — are to be observed in the form in which previous generations have handed them down; and the use of one church is not to be annulled because it is contrary to that of another.

  St. Jerome

  Running, Law, Giving

  "The Sacred Writings of St. Jerome".

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• The drop in living standards most people would have to accept to reduce climate change significantly would still leave us far better off than previous generations, so it's inexcusable that we find it so hard to renounce material goods.

  Raimond Gaita

  People, Climate, Generations

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• Like a baseball game, wars are not over till they are over. Wars don't run on a clock like football. No previous generation was so hopelessly unrealistic that this had to be explained to them.

  Thomas Sowell

  Baseball, Football, Running

  "Quagmire Seekers". Column at Jewish World Review, jewishworldreview.com. December 18, 2003.

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• What has changed about an entire generation of young people includes not only neoliberal society's disinvestment in youth and the lasting fate of downward mobility, but also the fact that youth live in a commercially carpet-bombed and commodified environment that is unlike anything experienced by those of previous generations. Nothing has prepared this generation for the inhospitable and savage new world of commodification, privatization, joblessness, frustrated hopes and stillborn projects.

  Henry Giroux

  Fate, People, Frustrated

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I inspired a new generation in the same way the previous generation inspired me. I believe that our democracy itself is very inspiring.

  Donna Brazile

  Believe, Democracy, Generations

  Interview with Eric Golub, tygrrrrexpress.com. November 8, 2008.

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• Youth no longer inhabit the privileged space, however compromised, that was offered to previous generations. They now occupy a neoliberal notion of temporality of dead time, zones of abandonment and terminal exclusion marked by a loss of faith in progress and a belief in those apocalyptic narratives in which the future appears indeterminate, bleak and insecure.

  Henry Giroux

  Loss, Insecure, Time Zones

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Plants don't think. Animals are guided by the power of instinct over which they themselves have no control. Animals have a certain kind of brain that makes it impossible to learn anything except very simple things. No generation of animals ever learns anything from any previous generation. We act like animals when we fail to use this magnificent piece of equipment.

  Sterling W Sill

  Animal, Simple, Thinking

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• We are different from previous generations of conservatives... We are no longer working to preserve the status quo. We are radicals, working to overturn the present power structure of this country.

  Paul Weyrich

  Country, Different, Generations

  "Burying conservatism" by Ian Williams, www.theguardian.com. December 19, 2008.

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• The small irritations or indignities that we experience are nothing compared to what a previous generation experienced... It’s one thing for me to be mistaken for a waiter at a gala. It’s another thing for my son to be mistaken for a robber and to be handcuffed or, worse, if he happens to be walking down the street and is dressed the way teenagers dress.

  Barack Obama

  Teenager, Son, Irritation

  "We Can Still Make a Difference". Interview with Jess Cagle, Sandra Sobieraj Westfall, people.com. December 29, 2014.

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• Our commitment should be to leave our environment in better shape than when we found it, our nation's fiscal house in better order, our public infrastructure in better repair, and our people better educated and healthier. To indulge in immediate gratification and exploitation is an insult to previous generations, who sacrificed for us, and thievery from the next generation, who depend on our virtue.

  Eric Liu

  Commitment, Order, Indulge In

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• Well, yes. I believe that children's souls are the inheritors of historical memory from previous generations. It's just that as they grow older and experience the everyday world that memory sinks lower and lower. I feel I need to make a film that reaches down to that level. If I could do that I would die happy.

  Hayao Miyazaki

  Children, Memories, Believe

  "A god among animators" by Xan Brooks, www.theguardian.com. September 14, 2005.

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• Try to do for the next generation of church leaders what the previous generation of church leaders has not done for you.

  Andy Stanley

  Leader, Church, Trying

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• Without the concepts, methods and results found and developed by previous generations right down to Greek antiquity one cannot understand either the aims or achievements of mathematics in the last 50 years. [Said in 1950]

  Hermann Weyl

  Years, Achievement, Greek

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• I recalled how much time i had spent fighting for something i didn't even want. maybe because i had been too lazy to think of other avenues to follow. maybe because i had been afraid of what others would think. maybe because it was hard work to be different. perhaps, because a human being is condemned to repeat the steps taken by the previous generation until a certain number of people begin to behave in a different fashion. then the world changes, and we change with it.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Fashion, Taken

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• The next generation product almost never comes from the previous generation.

  Al Ries

  Generations, Next, Products

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• It's always been the children who have saved the universe from the previous generation and remade the universe in their own image.

  Diane Duane

  Children, Generations, World

  "High Wizardry (Young Wizards, Book 3)". Book by Diane Duane, 1990.

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