Generation Gap Quotes - Page 2

• Our generation has an incredible amount of realism, yet at the same time it loves to complain and not really change. Because, if it does change, then it won't have anything to complain about.

  Tori Amos

  Reality, Our Generation, Doe

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• Think not forever of yourselves, O Chiefs, nor of your own generation. Think of continuing generations of our families, think of our grandchildren and of those yet unborn, whose faces are coming from beneath the ground.

  T. S. Eliot

  Peace, Native American, Grandchildren

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• If our language, our programs, our creations are not strongly present in the new media, the young generation of our country will be economically and culturally marginalized.

  Jacques Chirac

  Country, Young Generation, Media

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If you succumb to the temptation of using violence in the struggle, unborn generations will be the recipients of a long and desolate night of bitterness, and your chief legacy to the future will be an endless reign of meaningless chaos.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Peace

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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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• 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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• Only God Forgives was very much a generation gap in a way. It was all the youth of the world that embraced it. I make films for young people. That's what I will continue to do.

  Nicolas Winding Refn

  People, Forgiving, Generations

  Source: collider.com

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• Mine is the first generation able to contemplate the possibility that we may live our entire lives without going to war or sending our children to war.

  Tony Blair

  Children, War, Generations

  "What to Call Tony: Analysts Review Blair Legacy". Interview with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. June 26, 2007.

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• To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations - such is a pleasure beyond compare.

  Yoshida Kenko

  Book, Reading, Writing

  Yoshida Kenko (2009). “Essays in Idleness”, p.8, Cosimo, Inc.

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• It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

  Khalil Gibran

  Love, Spiritual, Emotional

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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