Generation Quotes
2595 quotes by 1900 authors
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I think I'm part of a generation of crime writers all of whom woke up independently and recoiled with horror at the fact that we'd…
— Laura Lippman
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Economic growth is necessary to keep the promise - enormously important to individual Americans - that each generation will have the opportunity to become more…
— Michael Mandelbaum
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In our generation, the role models were Gandhi and Nehru. We revered them. They were venerated personalities. I read almost every speech of Nehru.
— Pranab Mukherjee
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There's a generation now that didn't grow up in nature. Some of these adults are parents and they know that nature is good for their…
— Richard Louv
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Unless we make education a priority, an entire generation of Americans could miss out on the American dream.
— Blanche Lincoln
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Scandinavian crime fiction has become a great success all across the world and rightfully so. Sjowall and Wahloo ushered in a whole generation of Swedish…
— Camilla Lackberg
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It has always seemed to me a pity that the young people of our generation should grow up with such scant knowledge of Greek and…
— James Loeb
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I think that any wealth creates a sense of trusteeship... it is characteristic of the new generation which has created wealth to have some amount…
— Azim Premji
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The generation that migrated to the West in the 1970s or 1960s has now lived more in the West than India, and India has changed…
— Archie Panjabi
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You know, I started doing movies. I mean, my mind was brought into saying, 'You know what? I want to build a generation of wealth.
— Master P
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Bringing an end to the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians may help the young Arab generation to realise their aspirations. Israel is more than…
— Shimon Peres
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I think Blank Generation holds up pretty well. You listen to that with headphones and there's a lot going on there with the guitars- it's…
— Robert Quine
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The kids I talk to are convinced their generation will make the best music. And the greatest artists have yet to be discovered. I walk…
— L.A. Reid
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I don't know anything more piggish - I don't know anything more un-American than saying, 'Oh, I'm worried about my own little handout or my…
— Todd Rokita
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Each generation of pilots hopes that they will leave their profession better off than they found it.
— Chesley Sullenberger
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Civil rights happened because youth got involved. The youth stood up and helped to break the pattern that their parents had got accustomed to living.…
— Octavia Spencer
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I think Serena Williams is the best tennis player of this generation, if not the best ever. It is amazing for her to be playing…
— Samantha Stosur
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Every ten years there is a new generation of actors.
— Barbet Schroeder
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I think 'Horace Silver' was actually the first live jazz group I ever heard back when I was a kid in St. Louis. So along…
— David Sanborn
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A John Updike is a once-in-a-generation phenomenon, if that generation is lucky: so comfortable in so many genres, the same lively, generous intelligence suffusing all…
— George Saunders
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