Generations Quotes
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Generation X is dead. It has come to mean anyone aged 13 to 55 years old.
William Gibson
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In the Rodgers and Hammerstein generation, popular hits came out of shows and movies.
Stephen Sondheim
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It is not always easy to be who we are, but as we grow up and mature and develop coping mechanisms that enable us to survive and thrive in a complicated world, we have the responsibility to reach back and help others still struggling along the way. In so doing, we can also help ourselves. Above all, we cannot allow each generation to grow up in a world where they feel they are alone while we carry so much knowledge, history, and foundation that we can, and must, pass on to them.
Keith Boykin
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Because grandparents are usually free to love and guide and befriend the young without having to take daily responsibility for them, they can often reach out past pride and fear of failure and close the space between generations.
Jimmy Carter
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But when I start to kiss someone - lust is the easiest emotion to generate.
Casey Affleck
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Men have slow reflexes. In general it takes several generations later for them to understand.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
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Comparisons are really no good in sport, especially if it is a comparison between different eras and generations, for there are so many variables that come into play, starting from the quality of the opposition to playing conditions.
Sunil Gavaskar
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My life doesn't change. I still have to go out and work hard every day, and do the best that I can do. I'm a third generation Californian, and there's a lot of talented, good-looking guys in California, so I'm just happy to be working, and lucky to be working.
Scott Eastwood
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The contemporary Japanese directors who are well-known in the West - say, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Takeshi Kitano, Naomi Kawase - are mostly unknown to Japanese, particularly of the younger generation.
Hirokazu Kore-eda
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We all have an interest, and a duty to future generations, to ensure that the benefits of mobility that we now take for granted, do not place an intolerable burden on our environment.
Elliot Morley
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This generation I'm a member of, we're sort of infected by this idea that you had to make the world a better place.
Carol Ross Barney
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I don't blame younger generations for their lack of awareness. Americans in general are not interested in history.
Cleve Jones
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When I gaze into the stars, they look down upon me with pity from their serene and silent spaces, like eyes glistening with tears over the little lot of man. Thousands of generations, all as noisy as our own, have been swallowed up by time, and there remains no record of them any more. Yet Arcturus and Orion, Sirius and Pleiades, are still shining in their courses, clear and young, as when the shepherd first noted them in the plain of Shinar!
Thomas Carlyle
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Audie Murphy remains a shining example for anyone who believes in the importance of service, for generations now and into the future.
Rick Perry
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We are an intelligent species caught in an historical process. No generation which proceeded us knew what was going on, and there is no reason to assume that we know what's going on or that the generation which follows us will know what's going on. And what kind of trip is it anyway to insist on knowing what's going on?
Terence McKenna
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If we don’t lift up women who play critical roles in movements, we fail to offer role models to future generations.
Julia Bacha
