Generation Quotes
2595 quotes by 1900 authors
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We should be most careful about retreating from the specific challenge of our age. We should be reluctant to turn our back upon the frontier…
— James A. Michener
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I took on the sins of everybody, of a generation, really.
— Christine Keeler
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Appropriation was the language of my generation in many ways. It came out of Duchamp, Warhol, Johns, Lichtenstein.
— Deborah Kass
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I'm thrilled to continue my partnership with U by Kotex for Generation Know while helping to empower girls. I've always been a motivational resource for…
— Khloe Kardashian
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Entrepreneurs have the flexibility and the ability to do things that large companies simply cannot. Could a large company pull off a trick like Amyris,…
— Vinod Khosla
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Every American born today owes $43,000 to the federal government the day she or he is born. And we are transferring a tremendous amount of…
— Mark Kirk
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We were the children of white flight, the first generation to grow up in postwar American suburbs. By the time the ’60s rolled around, many…
— Herbert Muschamp
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Everybody talks about the entitlement generation. There is no time I'd rather live in than now, and there is no generation I would more entrust…
— Jon Stewart
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Objects of every sort are materials for the new art: paint, food, chairs, electric and neon lights, smoke, water, old socks, a dog, movies, a…
— Allan Kaprow
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The World War II generation believed the United States could do anything - anything... And Vietnam was a shattering experience for everyone.
— Richard Holbrooke
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The work of a generation is beginning here, with your hearings, and you have the full measure of my gratitude and support.
— Edward Snowden
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Ours is a lost generation, it may be, but it is more blameless than those earlier generations.
— Franz Kafka
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I've always written. I'm from an older generation of programmers [who] did not come out of engineering. [A]ll sorts of people were drawn in from…
— Ellen Ullman
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By all means write new songs. Each generation must do that. But to neglect the church's original hymnbook is, to put it bluntly, crazy
— N. T. Wright
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Before this generation goes on to its ancestors, we should, we must, do our level best to pass on our lessons, so that they live…
— Mumia Abu-Jamal
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I've always said if somebody wrote a book and they took their whole life to learn that knowledge in that book, why you won't just…
— Jeff Olson
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A Fraternity, too, is of such character that after men have left college they delight to renew their own youth by continued association with it…
— Newton D. Baker
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A whole generation of young whites have involved themselves with traditional Negro music.
— Archie Shepp
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History is fond of her grandchildren, for it offers them the marrow of the bones, which the previous generation had hurt its hands in breaking.
— Nikolay Chernyshevsky
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I'm a first generation American. My mother is Italian and Russian and a lot of other things, and my father is Uruguayan. In fact, my…
— Sebastian Arcelus
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