Generation Quotes
2595 quotes by 1976 authors
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Justice needs money; it always has . . . whether for abolition of slavery and early women's rights movements or the civil rights and environmental…
— Ralph Nader
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It's a dream of mine. I worked very, very hard for many years. But the reality is, it's slow coming ... I think we're still…
— Steve Sampson
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The notion that big business and big labor and big government can sit down around a table somewhere and work out the direction of the…
— Bruce Babbitt
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I inherited the knowledge that sometimes (talents) not only skip a generation, but sometimes run screaming from it. Ironically, it was the singing non-ability that…
— Fred Astaire
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We are facing a generation of young singers who are much more diminutive in their approach to singing.
— Jerome Hines
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But we reject the belief that America must choose between caring for the generation that built this country and investing in the generation that will…
— Barack Obama
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Absolute certainty will always elude us. We will always be mired in error. The most each generation can hope for is to reduce the error.…
— Carl Sagan
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Sometimes I fear that, if Harvard does not give up trying to turn itself from an Institution of Learning into an Educational Institution, we may…
— Edwin Boring
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The mental disease of the present generation is impatience of study, contempt of the great masters of ancient wisdom, and a disposition to rely wholly…
— Samuel Johnson
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It's time for a 21st-century retirement age. If 40 is the new 20 and 50 is the new 30, why shouldn't 70 be the new…
— Michelle Malkin
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There is a kind of fear, approaching a panic, that's spreading through the Baby Boom Generation, which has suddenly discovered that it will have to…
— Ron Chernow
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A whole generation of Americans will retire in poverty instead of prosperity, because they simply are not preparing for retirement now.
— Scott D. Cook
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Times were changing. Clothes were changing. Morals were changing. We went from romantic loves songs like I used to do to rock 'n roll. Now…
— Bobby Vinton
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Our highly qualified teachers not only work hard, but they care about each and every student that enters their classroom. I thank you, Montana teachers,…
— Conrad Burns
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I'm a feminist, but I think that romance has been taken away a bit for my generation.
— Emma Watson
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I think there's a tremendous sense of complacency in the LGBT community. AIDS has lost the edge of horror it possessed when it swept through…
— Zachary Quinto
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... when the struggle seems to be drifting definitely towards a world social democracy, there may still be very great delays and disappointments before it…
— H.G. Wells
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Of Virginia Woolf: The talent of this generation which is most certain of survival.
— Rebecca West
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There is no nobler profession, nor no greater calling, than to be among those unheralded many who gave and give their lives to the preservation…
— Laurence Overmire
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We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go. Science is all metaphor. In…
— Timothy Leary
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