Generation Quotes
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Food became for me a way of becoming self-sufficient with my hands, to regain manual literacy, which I think has been lost on our generation and certainly younger generations. Very few people can actually make things with their hands and do things with their hands.
Tim Ferriss -
But we have to do it gently because we’re in the #MeToo generation, so we have to be very gentle. We will very gently take that kit, and we will slowly toss it, hoping it doesn’t hit her and injure her arm.
Donald Trump
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Knowing who you are is good for one generation only. You haven't the foggiest idea where you stand now or who you are.
Flannery O'Connor -
The Younger Generation comes, bringing its gifts. They are the first fruits of the Negro Renaissance. Youth speaks, and the voice of the New Negro is heard.
Alain LeRoy Locke -
Electricity generation still around 25 percent below war levels, and transmission undermined by looting and sabotage.
Jack Straw -
A man must be sacrificed now and again to provide for the next generation of men.
Amy Lowell -
The previous generation, such as Alec Stewart and Nasser Hussain, lost to Australia on many occasions.
Andrew Strauss -
My first record wasn't even with the Fugees. I was signed to Big Beat Records, so I was signed back in 1989 to the label that the Knocks are on now. You can always tell which generation had the pulse based on how they see things.
Wyclef Jean Fugees
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Everyone in our generation lives in a world where you're surrounded by all sorts of music all the time. People's tastes are made of combinations of genres.
Caroline Polachek Chairlift -
Of course, the opposite of white privilege is not blackness, as many of us seemed to think then; the opposite of white privilege is working to dismantle that privilege. But my particular hip-hop generation proved to be very serious about figuring it all out and staying engaged.
Adam Mansbach -
Every generation must re-win its own freedoms.
Gatewood Galbraith -
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David Campbell -
We wanted to raise a generation of heretics, but instead we raised a generation of ignoramuses.
Berl Katznelson -
A man can pray better because of the prayers of the past; a man can live holier because of the prayers of the past; the man of many and acceptable prayers has done the truest and greatest service to the incoming generation.
Edward McKendree Bounds
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Usually when I drank too much, I could guess why I did so, the objective being to murder a state of consciousness that I didn't have the courage to sustain--a fear of heights, which sometimes during the carnival of the 1960s accompanied my attempts to transform the bourgeois journalist into an avant-garde novelist. The stepped-up ambition was a commonplace among the would-be William Faulkners of my generation; nearly always it resulted in commercial failure and literary embarrassment.
Lewis H. Lapham -
It's not partisan, ... I don't think education can be a partisan issue if we're going to be successful. Partisan politics in this country can get things stuck. It needs to be what can we do for the next generation of kids. And what do they need.
Janet Napolitano -
I want to reach a new generation. That's why I am Twittering now. I have a BlackBerry, an iPhone and a Mac.
Buzz Aldrin -
We should live and labor in our time that what came to us as a seed may go to the next generation as blossom, and what came to us as blossom, may go to them as fruit. This is what we mean by progress.
Henry Ward Beecher -
With this hip-hop generation they think about who has gold teeth, instead of the destiny of mankind.
Orlando Jones -
We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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I do think that my generation is really smart and wants to have political conversations, and so I hope that we can continue spreading our ideas and being able to change how our systems work. So, I guess being an all-American to me is being someone who questions things.
Amandla Stenberg -
When the Walkman was the craze in my generation, I was one of the first to have it.
Benigno Aquino III -
In every age and every generation, men have envisioned a promised land. Some may have envisioned it with the wrong ideology, with the wrong philosophical presupposition. But men in every generation thought in terms of some promised land.
Martin Luther King, Jr. -
Weed is going to bring us together as a generation. Drugs is what created Woodstock. Let's be clear about that.
ASAP Rocky