generation quotes

• For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are devoted to the physical and spiritual nourishment of its inhabitants. (Jimmy Carter) [generation/life/human/happiness]
• Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass. (Joseph Addison) [animals/generation/men/wisdom]
• If you ask a member of this generation two simple questions: How do you want the world to be in fifty years? and What do you want your life to be like five years from now? the answers are quite often preceded by Provided there is still a world and Provided I am still alive. To the often-heard question, Who are they, this new generation? one is tempted to answer, Those who hear the ticking. And to the other question, Who are they who utterly deny them? the answer may well be, Those who do not know, or refuse to face, things as they really are. (Hannah Arendt) [generation/life/question/question]
• The greatest significance of the present student generation is that it is through them that the point of view of the subjugated is finally and inexorably being expressed. (James Baldwin) [present/student/generation/point]
• Thought once awakened does not again slumber; unfolds itself into a System of Thought; grows, in man after man, generation after generation, --till its full stature is reached, and such System of Thought can grow no farther, but must give place to another. (Thomas Carlyle) [system/generation/generation/system]
• A great person is one who affects the mind of their generation. (Benjamin Disraeli) [mind/generation]
• Predominant opinions are generally the opinions of the generation that is vanishing. (Benjamin Disraeli) [generation]
• The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. (William James) [generation/human/mind]
• We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority, to bind themselves, but none to bind the succeeding generation, more than the inhabitants of another country. (Thomas Jefferson) [generation/right/willpower/generation]
• It is time for a new generation of leadership, to cope with new problems and new opportunities. For there is a new world to be won. (John F. Kennedy) [time/generation]
• It is our task in our time and in our generation to hand down undiminished to those who come after us, as was handed down to us by those who went before, the natural wealth and beauty which is ours. (John F. Kennedy) [time/generation/wealth/beauty]
• The fiery trials through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the latest generation. (Abraham Lincoln) [willpower/light/generation]
• A man must be sacrificed now and again to provide for the next generation of men. (Amy Lowell) [provide/generation/men]
• What we need is a generation of peace. (Jawaharlal Nehru) [generation/]
• This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny. (Franklin Roosevelt) [generation]
• Only a generation of readers will span a generation of writers. (Steven Spielberg) [generation/willpower/generation/writers]
• Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but religiously follows the new. (Henry David Thoreau) [generation]
• There is hardly an American male of my generation who has not at one time or another tried to master the victory cry of the great ape as it issued from the androgynous chest of Johnny Weissmuller, to the accompaniment of thousands of arms and legs snapping during attempts to swing from tree to tree in the backyards of the Republic. (Gore Vidal) [generation/time/master]
• It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous. (Charles Dudley Warner) [generation/ignorance]
• Infantilism is possibly the hallmark of our generation. (John Wells) [generation]
• It was scary and fun, ... Elizabeth Taylor of the hip-hop generation. (Jennifer Lopez) [generation]
• 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) [generation/amount/time/change]
• Richard Pryor was the Rosa Parks of comedy. He took risks and chances that made it possible for a whole generation of comics to exist. No one ever rocked the mike like Richard Pryor. (Chris Rock) [generation]
• You just inspired me and my whole generation. (Chris Tucker) [generation]
• One of the things that set Starsky and Hutch apart from other shows was that we grew up with a generation, in a much simpler time, a time when there were fewer channels and the family would gather round and watch a particular show together. (David Soul) [generation/time/time/family]
• I think it's time to do clean-up for a generation. I believe this is one of the movies that hits home for all colors and all races. Everybody I talk to, black or white, suburban, rich or poor, can relate to rejection, can relate to not having a father or a mother. (Derek Luke) [think/time/generation/housing]
• Anyone of my generation who tells you he hasn't 'done Brando' is lying. (James Caan) [generation]
• I had a strong sense of who I was, always have, and I was much happier in staying the way I am, in the way God intended me to be, instead of changing to fit my generation or the area, Hollywood, that we're always in. (James Caviezel) [god/generation]
• The big thing is that I'd like for my generation and the generations to come, to see how bad war can be. (James Caviezel) [thing/generation/war]
• "Since I'm only 24 years old, guess I have as good an insight into this rising generation as any other young man my age. And I've discovered that most young men do not stand like ramrods or talk like Demosthenes. Therefore, when I do play a youth, such as in Warner Bros. Rebel Without A Cause, I try to imitate life. The picture deals with the problems of modern youth. It is the romanticized conception of the juvenile that causes much of our trouble with misguided youth nowadays. I think the one thing this picture shows that's new is the psychological disproportion of the kids' demands on the parents. Parents are often at fault, but the kids have some work to do, too. But you can't show some far off idyllic conception of behavior if you want the kids to come and see the picture. You've got to show what it's really like, and try to reach them on their own grounds. You know, a lot of times an older boy, one of the fellows the young ones idolize, can go back to the high school kids and tell them, "Look what happened to me! Why be a punk and get in trouble with the law? Why do these senseless things just for a thrill?" I hope "Rebel Without A Cause" will do something like that. I hope it will remind them that other people have feelings. Perhaps they will say, "What do we need all that for?" If a picture is psychologically motivated, if there is truth in the relationship in it, then I think that picture will do good.” (James Dean) [insight/generation/men/youth]
• I was raised in a time where children were still seen and not heard basically, so I think a lot of us in my generation went the other way and just tried to be as much more liberal and open and we're still paying for it. (Blythe Danner) [time/think/generation/more]

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