Generations Quotes - Page 9

• Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.

  Bill Cosby

  Family, Music, Children

  Bill Cosby (1987). “Fatherhood”, Berkley Publishing Group

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• If we intend to provide a better life, and a better world, for future generations, we can't ignore the quality of the environment we leave them.

  John Kasich

  Quality, World, Environment

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• I have come to the conclusion that none of us in our generation feels as guilty about sin as we should or as our forefathers did.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Our Generation, Sin, Guilty

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• A whole generation of Americans will retire in poverty instead of prosperity, because they simply are not preparing for retirement now.

  Scott D. Cook

  Retirement, Marijuana, Poverty

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• There really have only ever been a few people in each generation who step out, are willing to put themselves on the line, and risk everything for their beliefs.

  Wynton Marsalis

  People, Risk, Lines

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• Every generation wants to be the last.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Want, Lasts, Background Music

  "Lullaby". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, September 17, 2002.

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• Upon suffering beyond suffering: the Red Nation shall rise again and it shall be a blessing for a sick world. A world filled with broken promises, selfishness and separations. A world longing for light again. I see a time of Seven Generations when all the colors of mankind will gather under the Sacred Tree of Life and the whole Earth will become one circle again.

  Crazy Horse

  Native American, Blessing, Circles

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• Nothing is more singular about this generation than its addiction to music.

  Allan Bloom

  Addiction, This Generation, Generation Gap

  Allan Bloom (2008). “Closing of the American Mind”, p.68, Simon and Schuster

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• Maybe our generation is more about sex, but it feels like romance is dying out.

  Orlando Bloom

  Love, Life, Sex

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• The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generation.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Motivational, Education, Time

  Pearl S. Buck (2013). “The Goddess Abides: A Novel”, p.49, Open Road Media

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• What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren't supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown - watch the raindrops coming down the window pane?

  Jackie Kennedy

  Children, Women, Memorable

  "The Last Word". Book by Carolyn Warner, 1992.

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• We were all on this ship in the sixties, our generation, a ship going to discover the New World. And the Beatles were in the crow's nest of that ship.

  John Lennon

  Music, Our Generation, Nwo

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• Each generation wants new symbols, new people, new names. They want to divorce themselves from their predecessors.

  Jim Morrison

  Divorce, Glowing, Names

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• Great men, unknown to their generation, have their fame among the great who have preceded them, and all true worldly fame subsides from their high estimate beyond the stars.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Stars, Men, Idols

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.242, Xist Publishing

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• What makes a book great, a so-called classic, it its quality of always being modern, of its author, though he be long dead, continuing to speak to each new generation.

  Lawrence Clark Powell

  Book, Marijuana, Long

  Lawrence Clark Powell (1968). “Bookman's Progress: The Selected Writings of Lawrence Clark Powell”

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• A whole generation of young whites have involved themselves with traditional Negro music.

  Archie Shepp

  Young, Whole, Involved

  "A Dialogue with Archie Shepp". Interview with Scott Cashman, www.archieshepp.net. December 10, 1990.

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• Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Wise, Reading, Book

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.69, Graphic Arts Books

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• Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Fashion, Teenage, Laughing

  1854 Walden, or Life in the Woods,'Economy'.

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• Isn't it a shame that future generations can't be here to see all the wonderful things we're doing with their money?

  Earl Wilson

  Money, Wonderful, Shame

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• It's very strange that most people don't care if their knowledge of their family history only goes back three generations.

  Douglas Coupland

  Family, Gambling, Careers

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• In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility - I welcome it.

  John F. Kennedy

  Freedom, Responsibility, Long

  Inaugural Address, 20 Jan. 1961

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• An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Life, Philosophical, Future

  "Persian Letters". Book by Montesquieu, 1721.

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• All around us are the consequences of the most significant technological, and hence cultural, revolution in generations.

  Lawrence Lessig

  Revolution, Significant, Technological

  Lawrence Lessig (2002). “The Future of Ideas: The Fate of the Commons in a Connected World”, p.5, Vintage

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• That sense of sacredness, that thinking in generations, must begin with reverence for this earth.

  Paul Tsongas

  Nature, Thinking, Earth

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• If every 8 year old in the world is taught meditation, we will eliminate violence from the world within one generation

  Dalai Lama

  Clever, Inspiration, Mother And Son

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