Generations Quotes

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Ours is the first generation that has grown up with science-fiction ideas. — Carl Sagan
Today's comedian has a cross to bear that he built himself. A comedian of the older generation did an act and he told the audience,… — Lenny Bruce
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
Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them with their homework… — Betty Friedan
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
Sometimes we deny being worthy of praise, hoping to generate an argument we would be pleased to lose. — Cullen Hightower
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
How frail and ephemeral is the material substance of letters, which makes their very survival so hazardous. Print has a permanence of its own, though… — Elizabeth Drew
The British playwright Nina Raine is one of her generation's most promising talents. — John Lahr
Frigidity is largely nonsense. It is this generation's catchword, one only vaguely understood and constantly misused. Frigid women are few. There is a host of… — Phyllis McGinley
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
Thinking in generations also means enabling our young to have a decent standard of living. — Paul Tsongas
My father's generation gave to my generation a land of wealth and purpose and world economic dominance. — Paul Tsongas

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