Generation Quotes

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I came from a generation of actors for whom TV was taboo. — Alicia Silverstone
It's hard for a Jew of my generation, an American Jew, who is philo-Zionistic, not to romanticize Israel. — David Mamet
The poets of each generation seldom sing a new song. They turn to themes men always have loved, and sing them in the mode of… — Clarence Day
The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure - if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to the generation which says if… — Ethel Barrymore
Lucky individuals in each generation find technology appropriate to their needs. — Freeman Dyson
We were that generation called silent, but we were silent neither, as some thought, because we shared the period's official optimism nor, as others thought,… — Joan Didion
Every generation is equidistant from God. — Leopold von Ranke
The British playwright Nina Raine is one of her generation's most promising talents. — John Lahr
The stumbling way in which even the ablest of the scientists in every generation have had to fight through thickets of erroneous observations, misleading generalizations,… — James Bryant Conant
It's not good enough to give it tender, loving care, to supply it with breakfast foods, to buy it expensive educations. Those things don't mean… — George Wald
We have kept our children so busy with "useful" and "improving" activities that we are in danger of raising a generation of young people who… — Eda LeShan
Jewish persecution is a historical memory of the present generation and people fear it in the present day, and that's why those references are so… — Gregg Easterbrook
My father's generation gave to my generation a land of wealth and purpose and world economic dominance. — Paul Tsongas
Tax reform is a once-in-a-generation opportunity. — Max Baucus
Who will take responsibility for raising the next generation? — Ruth Bader Ginsburg
The present generation, wearied by its chimerical efforts, relapses into complete indolence. Its condition is that of a man who has only fallen asleep towards… — Soren Kierkegaard
Actively we have woven ourselves with the very warp and woof of this nation-we have fought their battles, shared their sorrow, mingled our blood with… — W. E. B. Du Bois
Now, the vicissitudes that afflict the individual have their source in society. It is this situation that has given currency to the phrase social forces.… — Aneurin Bevan
Popular art is normally decried as vulgar by the cultivated people of its time; then it loses favor with its original audience as a new… — Northrop Frye
Everything's so repressive now - it's the No generation. You can't do anything, you can't eat anything, you have to abstain. — Michael Douglas

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