Generations Quotes - Page 23

• The thing is, our generation, we fight every day to get through life.

  Hayley Williams

  Fighting, Our Generation

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• Capricorn was one of the homes of the Southern rock movement with the Allman Brothers and Charlie Daniels and the Marshall Tucker Band. I don't think you can come from that area and not be influenced by that stuff a little bit, no matter what generation you grew up in.

  Jason Aldean

  Brother, Home, Thinking

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• The classical music scene was completely unfamiliar to me. A lot of people think of older generations and stuffiness. But it's not. You listen to the Overture of 1812, and you can hear a rock n' roll catharsis.

  Lola Kirke

  Thinking, Rocks, People

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• I grew up watching all the great Disney animated films and to be able to carry that torch and know that I'm contributing to the same magic and wonder for a whole new generation is a great thing.

  Jim Cummings

  Magic, Torches, Able

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• I get to be one of the torch-bearers for a new generation.

  Jim Cummings

  Torches, New Generation

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• As a Green, my goal is to put a smile on the face of the coming generations.

  Bob Brown

  Goal, Green, Faces

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• Big banks are more dangerous than standing armies, and the practice of borrowing and spending money to be paid back by the next generation is stealing from their future.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Army, Practice, Next

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• With the passage of years, not all of Dicken's readers remained infatuated with his pathos. One generation's sublimity became another generation's kitsch.

  Peter Gay

  Years, Kitsch, Pathos

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• Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to create an earthly paradise. Who could expect that? But, if you make life ever so little better, you will have done splendidly, and your lives will have been worthwhile.
  Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.

  Roger Babson

  Character, Judgement, Trying

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• "Do you believe in intuition?"
  "No, but I have a strange feeling that someday I will."
  People who take cold baths never have rheumatism, but they have cold baths.
  Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.

  Henrik Tikkanen

  Believe, Thinking, People

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• We've always had a tradition in America of hounding our artists to death. Look at the list of our great artists, you see a continual history of defeat, frustration, poverty, alcoholism, drug addiction. The best poets of my generation are all suicides.

  James Dickey

  Suicide, Artist, Frustration

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• I come from a generation where I couldn't even contemplate such a thing. I find it amazing... You can become a multi-millionaire as a club player without playing international football. But international football is about individual pride and wanting to perform at the highest level. If I got picked at 41, I would have played, even if I thought I would make a fool of myself. I just wanted to play for my country.

  Trevor Brooking

  Country, Football, Pride

  "Reports of Peter Crouch England retirement amaze Sir Trevor Brooking". www.theguardian.com. June 5, 2011.

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• Eventually everyone has to hit the dark side of life - Someone doesn't like you, someone doesn't like your work, someone doesn't love you back... people die. What we have is a generation who are super-confident and super-positive about things, but when the least bit of darkness enters their lives, they're paralyzed.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Love You, Dark, People

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• I come from a different generation from my Dad.

  George W. Bush

  Dad, Different, My Dad

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• I just think it should be illegal to call somebody fat on TV. . . . I think when it comes to the media, the media needs to take responsibility for the effect that it has on our younger generation, on these girls who are watching these television shows and picking up how to talk and how to be cool, so then all of a sudden being funny is making fun of the girl who's wearing an ugly dress.

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Girl, Fun, Responsibility

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• Moving swiftly between different arenas like politics, architecture or commercial design is what I would consider defintive of my generation. I am looking at reality and playing fast and loose with it.

  Sarah Morris

  Moving, Reality, Design

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• Graduates, I'm asking each of you, at some point, to act up, be misbehaved. Buck the system. Fight for what you believe in. This is the time to do it. You're the ones to do it. Your world, is like no other generation, you actually get to create the world that you can imagine.

  Mark Ruffalo

  Believe, Fighting, Asking

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• So, yeah, I mean, there is something universal about that feeling - that 20-something, what the hell am I going to do with my life, I'm lost and my parents are freaking me out, and what's the point? Every generation has a way of making that unique, but there are certain universals of that feeling.

  Zach Braff

  Mean, Unique, Parent

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• Jonny Lang has the power to move the music into the next millennium by reaching the ears of a new generation. The great musicians have the power to break all of the 'isms'-race, age, sex, et cetera. Jonny Lang is one of those musicians.

  Luther Allison

  Sex, Moving, Race

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• Find your true weakness and surrender to it. Therein lies the path to genius. Most people spend their lives using their strengths to overcome or cover up their weaknesses. Those few who use their strengths to incorporate their weaknesses, who don't divide themselves, those people are very rare. In any generation there are a few and they lead their generation.

  Moshe Feldenkrais

  Lying, People, Weakness

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• We pray for a generation of girls who will display their wit, their intelligence, their modest charm, their integrity, their loveliness rather than their bodies and their sexual possibilities.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Girl, Integrity, Body

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• We have laid the foundation for a better life. Things that were unimaginable a few years ago have become everyday reality. I belong to the generation of leaders for whom the achievement of democracy was the defining challenge.

  Nelson Mandela

  Reality, Years, Achievement

  "Foes pay tribute as Mandela begins long goodbye" by Chris McGreal, www.theguardian.com. March 26, 1999.

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• Today I have lost one of my dearest friends, England one of her greatest men. Keith Joseph understood that it was necessary to win again the intellectual argument for freedom, and that to do this we must start from first principles. He was in many ways an unlikely revolutionary. For all his towering intellect, he was deeply humble. He spoke out boldly, however hostile the audience. Yet he hated to give offence. Above all, his integrity shone out in everything he said and did. His best memorial lies in the younger generations of politicians whom he inspired. But for me he is irreplaceable.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Lying, Integrity, Humble

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• Sensible Catholics have for generations been ignoring the views on contraception held by reactionary old men in the Vatican, but alas, since it is the business of all religious doctrines to keep their votaries in a state of intellectual infancy (how else do they keep absurdities seeming credible?), insufficient numbers of Catholics have been able to be sensible.

  A.C. Grayling

  Religious, Men, Views

  A.C. Grayling (2012). “Against All Gods: Six Polemics on Religion and an Essay on Kindness”, p.12, Oberon Books

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• One generation cannot bind another.

  Thomas Jefferson

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