First Generation Quotes

61 quotes by 59 authors

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… — Tony Blair
The fact is that ours is the first generation that can look disease and extreme poverty in the eye, look across the ocean to Africa,… — Bono
No matter who you are, no matter what your color, creed, how you choose to pray or who you choose to love, that if you… — Cory Booker
The awareness that health is dependent upon habits that we control makes us the first generation in history that to a large extent determines its… — Jimmy Carter
This is the first generation in all of recorded history that can do something about the scourge of poverty. We have the means to do… — Hubert H. Humphrey
Part of the American ethos is that you want to leave something better for your kids than you had and I know that my parents… — Matt Damon
O, Youth: Do you know that yours is not the first generation to yearn for a life full of beauty and freedom? — Albert Einstein
Only very rarely are foreigners or first-generation immigrants allowed to be nice people in American films. Those with an accent are bad guys — Max von Sydow
Every child should be taught to cook in school, not just talk about nutrition all day. Good food can be made in 15 minutes. This… — Jamie Oliver
As a first-generation "Asian American woman," for one thing, I knew there was no such thing as an "Asian American woman." Within this homogenizing labeling… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim
As a first generation Jewish American, I have witnessed firsthand Jewish immigrants who have come to this Nation in order to create a better life… — Jan Schakowsky
Weâ€™re the first generation to feel the impact of climate change and the last generation that can do something about it.' — Jay Inslee
My parents were both from extremely different backgrounds. My father's Italian, my mother was of Swedish descent. They're both first-generation Americans. — Susan Lucci
I think my parents were immigrants, you know, so I guess I would be first generation. Growing up in California. — Phillip Lim
I forever felt that I've fallen right between the crack of way too young for the first generation of classic rock 'n' roll and too… — Paul Westerberg
Because of the increasing rates of obesity, unhealthy eating habits and physical inactivity, we may see the first generation that will be less healthy and… — Richard Carmona
First-generation children were strongly influenced by their immigrant parents approach to choice. For them, choice was not just a way of defining and asserting their… — Sheena Iyengar
Our mothers' generation fought so hard to change things and we're the first generation to benefit. And now you get girls in their twenties who… — Kristin Davis
We are the first generation of human beings to have substantial insights into the origin of our cosmos and of human life in it. — Arthur Peacocke
Let us become the first generation to decide to be the last that sees empty classrooms, lost childhoods and wasted potential — Malala Yousafzai

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