Generations Quotes - Page 25

• The key reason why we are richer than our ancestors is that these ancestors have bequeathed us buildings, factories and machines that have given us a high living standard to start with. Driven by irresponsible policy makers, America's present generation is consuming the nation's capital.

  Kurt Richebacher

  Keys, America, Machines

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• Once a fellow's enjoying the fruits of government health care and all the rest, he couldn't give a hoot about the general societal interest; he's got his, and if it's going to bankrupt the state a generation hence, well, as long as they can keep the checks coming till he's dead, it's fine by him.

  Mark Steyn

  Government, Long, Giving

  "‘Send Me My Checks Till I’m Dead’". www.nationalreview.com. October 24, 2005.

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• The greatest danger to the liberal vision are facts about the consequences of liberalism itself and the laws, policies, and ways of life that the left has spawned. That the black family, which survived centuries of slavery and generations of discrimination, has disintegrated in the wake of the liberal welfare states is only one example.

  Thomas Sowell

  Law, Black, Vision

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• No nation can survive without passing its heritage, language and, yes, faith to the next generation. A country must be built on something substantial and if the cultural elitists think it can be built on 'diversity,' that is a foundation of shifting sand.

  Cal Thomas

  Country, Thinking, Diversity

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• Our attitude toward cash generation and asset management came out of our own thought process. After we acquired a number of businesses we reflected on aspects of business. Our own conclusion was that the key was cash flow.

  Henry Earl Singleton

  Attitude, Keys, Cash Flow

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• If you look at this generation of selfies and selfies and selfies, it seems a little bit scary. I like to see a driven kid, somebody who wants to come from the ground up.

  Kim Basinger

  Kids, Scary, This Generation

  Interview with Elvis Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 22, 2014.

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• The biggest problem for my generation is that people who were born years before us have no concept of us at all. There's a massive gap. I don't know why, but we were really like orphans. Those people competed against us, they hated us and fought for things, and yet they had no interest in our work.

  Liam Gillick

  Years, People, Gaps

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• No one born in the 1950s took much interest in my generation, and all we've done is try to fix it by talking to the people who came after us. I don't hang out with anyone who is 10 years older than I am, but I hang out with a lot of people who are 10 years younger.

  Liam Gillick

  Talking, Years, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think, now, younger generations do take that for granted in a lot of ways. I don't think that takes away from the struggle of identity and what that is. But the struggle for identity is everybody's struggle. No matter what it is.

  Jake Gyllenhaal

  Struggle, Thinking, Identity

  "10 Years After 'Brokeback,' Jake Gyllenhaal Remembers Heath Ledger: 'Way Beyond His Years as a Human'". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 25, 2015.

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• Young people realize that something is amiss. There's a generation that fell in love with their phones, and it's very hard for them to see that there's a problem. But young people are desperate for the attention of their parents, who are really not paying attention to them.

  Judy Woodruff

  Phones, People, Parent

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Music has always been in my family down to my dad through my uncle. I'm just the next generation, since it's always been around me when I was younger when I looked up to my mom and dad, to Michael Jackson, and B2K was my favorite band growing up.

  Jacob Latimore

  Mom, Uncles, Dad

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• We are using new technologies in meaningful ways. To build our new refinery in 60 percent of the time it took to build our first, we are training 20,000 people in a new generation of welding technology in six months.

  Mukesh Ambani

  Meaningful, Technology, People

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• The next generation has always been and will be better than the previous one. If it is not, then the world would not be moving forward.

  Kapil Dev

  Moving, World, Next

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• Countries which receive aid do graduate. Within a generation, Korea went from being a big recipient to being a big aid donor. China used to get quite a bit of aid; now it's aid-neutral.

  Bill Gates

  Country, Korea, Graduates

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• That is the problem with this rich and anguished generation. Somewhere a long time ago they fell in love with the idea that politicians- even the slickest and brightest presidential candidates- were real heroes and truly exciting people. That is wrong on its face. They are mainly dull people with corrupt instincts and criminal children.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Children, Real, Hero

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Generation of Swine: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist”, p.265, Simon and Schuster

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• Teaching ... particularly in the 1990s, teaching what is far and away the dumbest generation in American history, is the same as walking up Broadway in Manhattan talking to yourself, except instead of eighteen people who hear you in the street talking to yourself, they're all in the room. They know, like, nothing.

  Philip Roth

  Teaching, Talking, People

  Philip Roth (2010). “The Human Stain”, p.190, Random House

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• We will preach the truth to a new generation: The doorway to all freedoms is framed with muskets. It's time the apologists step aside and let freedom's followers lead the way.

  Charlton Heston

  Followers, Doorways, Steps

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• I couldn't live with myself if I thought that these big strategic choices for my generation were there, and I wasn't even making them - or I was making them according to what was expedient rather than what I actually thought was right.

  Tony Blair

  Choices, Bigs, Strategic

  "I Did It My Way". Newsweek Interview, www.newsweek.com. February 25, 2007.

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• It's a wonderful feeling to be a bridge to the past and to unite generations. The sport of baseball does that, and I am just a part of it.

  Vin Scully

  Sports, Baseball, Past

  "Conversation With My Hero: Broadcaster Vin Scully". Interview with Michael Connelly, parade.com. October 18, 2009.

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• The younger generation is supposed to rage against the machine, not for it. They're supposed to question authority, not question those who question authority.

  Bill Maher

  Machines, Rage, Authority

  Bill Maher (2006). “New Rules: Polite Musings from a Timid Observer”, p.114, Rodale

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• My generation didn`t face the kind of urgent, pressing issues that my parents did, who fought through a war and a Depression and know what suffering is. That`s why Bob Dole had a tough time with this electorate. He was an old-fashioned curmudgeon who knew about sacrifice, and we didn`t know if we could live up to his standards. But we knew we could live up to Bill Clinton`s. He`s more like one of us.

  Bill Maher

  War, Sacrifice, Issues

  "Lite Night with Bill Maher". Interview with Ana Marie Cox, www.motherjones.com. January/February 1998.

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• I know a whole generation has been raised on the notion of multiculturalism; that all civilizations are just different. No! Not always. Sometimes things are better! Rule of law is better than autocracy and theocracy; equality of the sexes, better; protection of minorities, better; free speech, better; free elections, better; free appliances with large purchases, better! Don't get so tolerant that you tolerate intolerance.

  Bill Maher

  Sex, Law, Civilization

  "Bill Maher: Victory Begins at Home". Documentary, Comedy, 2003.

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• I am the first male member of my family for about three generations who can have reasonable confidence in expecting that I will leave this earth with more or less the same number of fingers, hands, legs, toes and eyes as I had when I was born.

  Neil Kinnock

  Death, Eye, Hands

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• Every generation has their challenge. And things change rapidly, and life gets better in an instant.

  Jon Stewart

  Change, Challenges, Get Better

  Commencement Address at The College of William & Mary, delivered 21 May 2004

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• The beat generation is a coffeehouse full of people expectantly looking at their watches waiting for the beat generation to come on.

  Mort Sahl

  People, Waiting, Watches

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