Generation Quotes

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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
The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap. — Spiro T. Agnew
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
Each generation has a backlash against the generation before. — Jo Brand
I think if we are actually going to accept our generation's responsibility, that's going to mean that we give our children no less retirement security… — Carol Moseley Braun
The response to 'The Greatest Generation' and the books that followed has been one of the most satisfying experiences of my life. — Tom Brokaw
Jeff Smith was the Julia Child of my generation. When his television show, 'The Frugal Gourmet,' made its debut on PBS in the 1980s, it… — Alton Brown
Britain still has the most reliably beautiful countryside of anywhere in the world. I would hate to be part of the generation that allowed that… — Bill Bryson
The rise to prominence of the Saudi novel in Arabic is the great man-bites-dog of recent world literature. Saudi Arabia is a country without a… — James Buchan
The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generation. — Pearl S. Buck
My mind-set is Munich. Most of my generation's is Vietnam. — Madeleine Albright
My parents were of the generation who thought they were the children of a free Czechoslovakia, the only democracy in central Europe. — Madeleine Albright
Second-generation Hispanics marry non-Hispanics at a higher rate than second-generation Irish or Italians. Second-generation Hispanics' English language capability rates are higher than previous immigrant groups'. — Jeb Bush
The biggest benefit of Apollo was the inspiration it gave to a growing generation to get into science and aerospace. — Buzz Aldrin
Absolutely the United States should lead in space, for the survival of the United States. It's inspiring for the next generation. If we lose leadership,… — Buzz Aldrin
Each generation doubtless feels called upon to reform the world. Mine knows that it will not reform it, but its task is perhaps even greater.… — Albert Camus
Today's younger generation is no worse than my own. We were just as ignorant and repulsive as they are, but nobody listened to us. — Al Capp
But go on, valiant champion; you die not as a fool, though the apostate, unfaithful, and lukewarm ministers and professors of this generation think and… — Donald Cargill
Thought once awakened does not again slumber; unfolds itself into a System of Thought; grows, in man after man, generation after generation, - till its… — Thomas Carlyle
Our grandfathers had to run, run, run. My generation's out of breath. We ain't running no more. — Stokely Carmichael

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