Generations Quotes

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My parents were European immigrants. They came to the States with $1,500, two suitcases, and me, and they managed to build a business, a family,… — Stana Katic
We were the children of white flight, the first generation to grow up in postwar American suburbs. By the time the â€™60s rolled around, many… — Herbert Muschamp
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
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
Almost 30 years before Rwanda, before Darfur, more than 2 million people â€“ mothers, children, babies, civilians â€“ lost their lives as a result of… — Chinua Achebe
The traditions of the dead generations weigh like a nightmare upon the living. — Karl Marx
The World War II generation believed the United States could do anything - anything... And Vietnam was a shattering experience for everyone. — Richard Holbrooke
The work of a generation is beginning here, with your hearings, and you have the full measure of my gratitude and support. — Edward Snowden
Ours is a lost generation, it may be, but it is more blameless than those earlier generations. — Franz Kafka
I am not sure that you, the younger generations, will like to go to war that we went through. So, we learn as the mistakes… — Ibrahim Babangida
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
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
And it may be that a crowd at a particular moment of history creates the object to justify its gathering, as it did at the… — Jennifer Egan
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
The twentieth century will be chiefly remembered by future generations not as an era of political conflicts or technical inventions, but as an age in… — Arnold J. Toynbee
May our children and our children's children to a thousand generations, continue to enjoy the benefits conferred upon us by a united country, and have… — Abraham Lincoln
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
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
A whole generation of young whites have involved themselves with traditional Negro music. — Archie Shepp
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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