Generations Quotes
3253 quotes by 2229 authors
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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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You know, I'm part of that first MTV generation.
— Alexandra Patsavas
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I always think about the next generation and creating a different blueprint for them. That's my goal: to let them know there's another way.
— Janelle Monae
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Maybe, generations ago, young people rebelled out of some clear motive, but now, we know we're rebelling. Between teen movies and sex-ed textbooks we're so…
— Daniel Handler
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I like the thought that what we are to do on this earth is embellish it for its greater beauty, so that oncoming generations can…
— Philip Johnson
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As Enlightenment philosophers and scholars consciously adopted the methods of science to establish such abstract concepts as rights, liberty, and justice, successive generations have become…
— Michael Shermer
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Cafeteria-style education, combined with the unwillingness of our schools to place demands on students, has resulted in a steady diminishment of commonly shared information between…
— Edward Hirsch
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Civilization could not exist until there was written language, because without written language no generation could bequeath to succeeding generations anything but its simpler findings.
— Charlton Laird
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The great arbiters of language are the women who speak it in the presence of children... What the women pass on to the next generation…
— Charlton Laird
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Natural gas will displace coal in power generation. Getting natural gas into the transportation fleet is harder. It works best for vehicles that work from…
— John S. Watson
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From the time I read my first Hemingway work, The Sun Also Rises, as a student at Soldan High School in St. Louis, I was…
— A. E. Hotchner
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George Bush is by American standards rabidly Upper Class - Eastern, Socially Attractive, WASP, 19th-century money, several generations of Andover and Yale (and, while we're…
— Peter York
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Successive generations of middle-class parents used to foist their own favourite books on their children. But some time in the late Eighties it began to…
— Peter York
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The old process of social assimilation used to be mainly about English new money - generated in London, the mucky, brassy North or the colonies…
— Peter York
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In issues of recent ethnic wars and genocides - particularly if you look at Darfur - one of the most remarkable things is our inability…
— Stephen Daldry
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The next generation of innovators, who need neutrality the most, are not at the bargaining table. They're hard at work in their labs or classrooms,…
— Edward Felten
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I think music influences fashion and has done so for generations.
— Georgia May Jagger
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In a few generations more, there will probably be no room at all allowed for animals on the earth: no need of them, no toleration…
— Marie Louise, Duchess of Parma
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The Next Generation Space Telescope, which will be located much further away from the Earth than the Hubble Space Telescope presently is, will also explore…
— Claude Nicollier
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If succeeding generations of Americans don't understand the concepts of justice, individual rights, free enterprise, capitalism, sovereignty or national security, there can be no guarantee…
— George Nethercutt
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