Generations Quotes - Page 6

• The death tax punishes the American dream - making it virtually impossible for the average American family to build wealth across generations.

  Christopher Bond

  Dream, Average, Impossible

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• It is worthwhile for anyone to have behind him a few generations of honest, hard-working ancestry.

  John Phillips

  Hard Work, Ancestry, Honest

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• We all have an obligation as citizens of this earth to leave the world a healthier, cleaner, and better place for our children and future generations.

  Blythe Danner

  Children, Future, Responsibility

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• I am Warhol. I am the No. 1 most impactful artist of our generation. I am Shakespeare in the flesh.

  Kanye West

  Sleep, Artist, Our Generation

  "Why Kanye West really is the world's No 1 rock star" by Alexis Petridis, www.theguardian.com. December 20, 2013.

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• As major orchestras around the world are gripped in various kinds of crises and upheaval, we need to be sure that we are bringing up this new generation.

  James Levine

  Needs, Upheaval, World

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• Specifically, I am concerned about the long-term condition of Social Security. I am committed to ensuring that current beneficiaries and those nearing retirement face no reduction in benefits, while preserving this vital program for future generations.

  Cliff Stearns

  Retirement, Long, Benefits

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• The traditions of the dead generations weigh like a nightmare upon the living.

  Karl Marx

  Nightmare, Tradition

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• You are young. No hungry generations tread you down. The past does not mock you with the ruins of a beauty the secret of whose creation you have lost

  Oscar Wilde

  Past, Secret, Doe

  Oscar Wilde (2011). “Epigrams and Aphorisms”, p.126, BoD – Books on Demand

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• Thinking in generations also means enabling our young to have a decent standard of living.

  Paul Tsongas

  Mean, Thinking, Enabling

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• Peace for us means the destruction of Israel. We are preparing for an all-out war, a war which will last for generations...

  Yasser Arafat

  War, Mean, Israel

  The Times, August 5, 1980.

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• Things change in different countries as people grow, and as generations change.

  Shannon Elizabeth

  Country, People, Different

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

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• The New York City Ballet is obviously speaking to a whole new generation and bringing it the same wonder and beauty that it brought previous generations

  Robert Caro

  New York, Talking, Cities

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• All of the generations go to what is chic for them, and theater seems to be an older generation's art form.

  Estelle Parsons

  Art, Chic, Form

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• Correcting it, I don't know; just shedding the light of day on it is a first major step, being one of the earliest generations not to just accept the words.

  Paul Kantner

  Light, Firsts, Steps

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• All social workers want is to get everyone involved in a programme. Because a programme provides full employment for three generations of social workers. And they mess up.

  David Eddings

  Three, Employment, Want

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• In times of war, it is often best to look to our history to see how past generations of Americans dealt with the loss of their countrymen in just causes.

  Virginia Foxx

  War, Loss, Past

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• Genetics is about how information is stored and transmitted between generations.

  John Maynard Smith

  Information, Genetics

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• Maybe she'd seen too many Japanese horror movies, and maybe it was just a tingle of warning from generations of superstitious ancestors, but suddenly she knew that what Alyssa wanted was not to be saved, but for Shane to join her. In death.

  Rachel Caine

  Warning, Horror, Shane

  Rachel Caine (2012). “Bitter Blood: The Morganville Vampires”, p.125, Penguin

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• Someone once told me that time was a predator that stalked us all our lives. But I rather believe than time is a companion who goes with us on the journey, and reminds us to cherish every moment because they'll never come again. What we leave behind is not as important how we lived. After all, Number One, we're only mortal.

  Brannon Braga

  Time, Believe, Journey

  "Fictional character: Jean-Luc Picard". "Star Trek: Generations", www.imdb.com. 1994.

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• What has been forgotten is that there were major intellectual breakthroughs in the 1960s, thanks to North American writers of an older generation. There was a rupture in continuity, since most young people influenced by those breakthroughs did not enter the professions.

  Camille Paglia

  People, Intellectual, Rupture

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• I'm speaking for all of us. I'm the spokesman for a generation.

  Bob Dylan

  Talking

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

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• Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Birthday, Book, Writing

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.65, Penguin

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• An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Writing, Literature, Next

  Letter to Booksellers' Convention, Apr. 1920

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• The year I was born, 1956, was the peak year for babies being born, and there are more people essentially our age than anybody else. We could crush these new generations if we decided too.

  Tom Hanks

  Birthday, Crush, Baby

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The most important thing about global warming is this. Whether humans are responsible for the bulk of climate change is going to be left to the scientists, but it's all of our responsibility to leave this planet in better shape for the future generations than we found it.

  Mike Huckabee

  Responsibility, Environmental, Important

  The Republicans' First Presidential Candidates Debate, www.nytimes.com. May 3, 2007.

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