Generations Quotes - Page 11

• It's all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Time, Age, Aging

  Fanny's First Play (1914) "Induction"

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• Hopefully, generations after us will continue to protect, preserve, and look after this wonderful land.

  Wilford Brimley

  Land, Looks, Wonderful

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• Our generation has had no Great Depression, no Great War. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Depression, Spiritual, War

  "Bruise Control". www.theguardian.com. May 12, 2000.

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• We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Integrity, Anger, Character

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.96, Beacon Press

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• It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous.

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Ignorance, Glowing, Doe

  Charles Dudley Warner (1873). “Backlog Studies”, p.28

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• I'm not saying that more performance wouldn't be better - all these technologies are going to get better - that's the difference between first generation and second generation.

  Trip Hawkins

  Technology, Differences, Get Better

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• Fewer and fewer Americans possess objects that have a patina, old furniture, grandparents pots and pans - the used things, warm with generations of human touch, essential to a human landscape. Instead, we have our paper phantoms, transistorized landscapes. A featherweight portable museum.

  Susan Sontag

  Museums, Grandparent, Essentials

  Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.62, Macmillan

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• 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.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Love, Spiritual, Years

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• You know, Hoosiers recognize pork when we see it. And they recognize what bailing out every failing business in America means - We're burying generations under a mountain range of debt.

  Mike Pence

  Mean, Mountain Ranges, America

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

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• I'm enormously proud of the fact that Star Trek has really not just sparked an interest, but encouraged, a few generations of people to go into the sciences.

  LeVar Burton

  Stars, People, Proud

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Education can counteract the natural tendency to do the wrong thing, but the inexorable succession of generations requires that the basis for this knowledge be constantly refreshed.

  Garrett Hardin

  Natural, Tendencies, Bases

  Garrett James Hardin (1976). “Exploring new ethics for survival: the voyage of the spaceship Beagle”

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• I feel like I have at least begun to make a contribution, but my most significant concern has to do with whether my actual art will be preserved for future generations or be erased.

  Judy Chicago

  Art, Immortality, Significant

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• With our next generation hardware, polygon rendering will probably be an area we'll get more heavily into.

  Trip Hawkins

  Next, Rendering, Hardware

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• The male society is letting the men think of the women as something pretty and soft and that kind of thing. So I just wanted to show what we were. Women are the ones who actually created the human race. I mean without us bringing up the new generation, there wouldn't be a human race.

  Yoko Ono

  Mean, Men, Thinking

  "15 Minutes With Yoko Ono". Interview with Titania Kumeh, www.motherjones.com. February 22, 2010.

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• There's this idea of shifting baselines. It was coined by a guy named Jeremy Jackson. It's the idea that every generation takes what it sees, and says, "Okay, well, that's the norm."

  Elizabeth Kolbert

  Ideas, Guy, Shifting

  "Pulitzer Winner Elizabeth Kolbert on Mass Extinctions - and Our Own Eventual One". Interview with Benjy Hansen-Bundy, www.motherjones.com. February 4, 2014.

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• But ultimately, the purpose of marriage is to transmit civilization to the next generation. There has never been an institution that does it as well as marriage, and that is marriage between a man and a woman.

  Ann Coulter

  Men, Civilization, Doe

  "The Situation" with Tucker Carlson, www.nbcnews.com. June 6, 2006.

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• For electric power generation, we are very optimistic about solar-thermal technology, and we’re intrigued by the potential of enhanced geothermal energy to replace coal-based power generation. Traditional carbon capture and sequestration-based coal power generation is somewhat unlikely to be competitive.

  Vinod Khosla

  Optimistic, Technology, Electric Power

  "Power Q&A: Vinod Khosla". Interview with Elizabeth Gettelman, www.motherjones.com. April 21, 2008.

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• I don't believe in the clash of cultures. The culture is one. The culture is a ring off the same chain. Picasso was very much influenced by the African arts, and he influenced a whole other generation of artists. So everything influences everything.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Art, Believe, Culture

  Source: editorial.rottentomatoes.com

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• I'm sick and tired of our generation being called the TV generation. What do you expect? We watched Lee Harvey Oswald get his brains blown out all over. How could we change the channel after that?

  Denis Leary

  Funny, Tired, Humor

  "Denis Leary: No Cure for Cancer". m.imdb.com. 1993.

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• I'm proud to be part of a generation where reading is a 'look.'

  Marc Maron

  Funny, Reading, Humor

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• A part of what makes myths live is their multiplicity, the way different voices retell them in every generation. Homer survives because his poetry was outstanding, yes, but also because he's been passed down by so many by luminaries like Vergil and Ovid, Shakespeare, James Joyce and Margaret Atwood, but also by countless others. I wanted to do my part for these tremendous stories.

  Madeline Miller

  Voice, Different, Stories

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• If I were born in other generation, I would be a singer rapper, dancing is also...I was famous as a good dancer. My dancing skill was just hided by other members better skill.

  Yesung

  Rapper, Skills, Dancing

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• I think of my father growing up in South Jersey, the son of second-generation German immigrant glassblowers. The opportunities for him of feeling that aspiration, that yearning, get out of the small town, connect to a larger world, get yourself to New York, wanting to play the piano at every opportunity, bonding with people who were on a similar path, ending up in Provincetown, which was kind of nexus for nonconformity, and artistic dropout reality.

  Anne Waldman

  New York, Growing Up, Father

  Source: logosjournal.com

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• A lot of my father's generation were thinking about communism and had deep liberal and progressive connections. He never admitted whether he was a card-carrying communist party member but I think its possible.

  Anne Waldman

  Father, Party, Thinking

  Source: logosjournal.com

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• I did go to Vietnam in 2000 as a kind of pilgrimage and to feel my generation was very much a part of this. I felt responsible but also connected and empathetic. It was a very complicated relationship we had, whichever side you were on. The shock of being there was very few people my own age - I was primarily in the North in the streets of Hanoi. A whole generation was essentially decimated.

  Anne Waldman

  People, Age, Complicated Relationship

  Source: logosjournal.com

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