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I'm a poet born in the era of Andy Warhol and a generation that wanted to be famous. — Eileen Myles

We can still maintain our coasts and oceans for the generations to come, who deserve what we have. — Aaron Peirsol

You want to take some responsibility for you choices so that it sets the groundwork for that next generation of actresses. — Nicole Kidman

Comfort is the god of our generation, so suffering is seen as a problem to be solved, and not a providence from God. — Matt Chandler

The choices that you make with your family today will determine the quality of life in your family tree for generations to come. — Steve Farrar

Shakespeare is the Joss Whedon of his generation. — Alexis Denisof

There are now no elders who know more than the young themselves about what the young are experiencing. — Margaret Mead

We the caregivers, have the power to do things proactively to benefit our present and future generations. — Betsy L. Stone

Be good at the people who are not yet born. Prepare for them a better place than the one you came to inherit. They will be grateful to you — Bangambiki Habyarimana

NY is the city it is today in part because of the contributions from generations of artistic visionaries — Bill De Blasio

He was protecting me with just the tips of his fingers, like five miniature copies of his heart touching my skin. — Megan Duke

11 But the plans of the LORD stand firm forever, the purposes of his heart through all generations. — Anonymous

With Taipei Tao Lin becomes the most interesting prose stylist of his generation. — Bret Easton Ellis

Every generation has the right to build its own world out of the materials of the past, cemented by the hopes of the future. — Herbert Hoover

Never experiencing the life of the mind scars entire families for generations. — Joe Bageant

David Cronenberg is the most provocative, original, and consistently excellent North American director of his generation. — J. Hoberman

We thrive when we are pulled by the future, not pushed by the past. — Crystal Kadakia

We have a responsibility to carry the baton of faith to the next generation. — Christine Caine

What is the real relation between happiness and goodness? It is only within a few generations that men have found courage to say that there is none. — William Graham Sumner

The historian's rightful task is to distil experience as a medicinal warning for the future generations, not to distil a drug. — B.H. Liddell Hart

The tradition of past generations weighs like the Alps on the brains of the living. — Karl Marx

The Constitution needs allegiance and loyalty and renewal and understanding with each generation, or else it's not going to last. — Anthony Kennedy

I'M ANGRY because the stories of injustice that have been passed down for generations seem to be continuing before our very eyes. — Benjamin Watson

The unlimited creativity of humanity has created cruelty so chilling that death itself has become a welcomed and kind benefactor. — Bryant McGill

History should not be written to make the present generation feel good but to remind us that human affairs are complicated. — Margaret MacMillan

To identify oneself today as a man of Tradition is to be committed to the transmission of the received heritage for the benefit of future generations. — Raido

If you look at the state of our planet, the next generations won't be around if we consider sustainability as a gimmick. — Jochen Zeitz

It isrequisite from time to time to remind one generation of the experience which led a former generation to important legislative actions. — William Stanley Jevons

The first novel that I wrote was because I was having very interesting sorts of experiences, for Indians of my generation. — Karan Bajaj

The writing of history reflects the interests, predilections, and even prejudices of a given generation. — John Hope Franklin

You can't appreciate the world you live in and know if it's better or worse than previous generations unless you know your history. — Chris Dietzel

There is no greater gift to future generations than that we do the work God has asked us to do: love one another, that the world might be made right. — Marianne Williamson

The prophets who spoke to their generations for God did not please and conform; they irritated and opposed. — Billy Graham

Our strife pertains to ourselves-to the passing generations of men-and it can without convulsion be hushed forever with the passing of one generation. — Abraham Lincoln

Why does every generation have to think that he lives in the period with the greatest turbulence? — Henry Mintzberg

Every generation blames the generation before them. — Mutabaruka

And I was shocked to see the mistakes of each generation will just fade like a radio station, if we drive out of range. — Ani DiFranco

I recognize the unknowing, involuntary effect that 'Facts of Life' had and continues to have on several generations of people. — Kim Fields

as we age, we are bound to find comfort from the notion that it takes generations for a way of life to fade. — Amor Towles

Undefined Christianity is not a problem in our generation. It is defined Christianity that brings the rub. — Alistair Begg

Future generations, riding on the highways that we built, I hope they have a better understanding. — John Mellencamp

[The Internet generation is] not fighting that battle about who gets to speak; they all get to speak. — Jennifer Pahlka

When I started Doctor Who Steven Moffat said, "That's it for the rest of your life." I'll be Doctor to a whole generation when they're 50. — Matt Smith

The World is not ours to keep. We hold it in trust for future generations. — Kofi Annan

I believe I gather strength from the generations of women who came before me - that together we all hold the suffering of the world. — Elizabeth Berrien

Now we are expected to be as wise as men who have had generations of all the help there is, and we scarcely anything. — Louisa May Alcott

The yarn forms the stitches, the knitting forges the friendships, the craft links the generations. - Karen — Debbie Macomber

We live not by things, but by the meaning of things. It is needful to transmit the passwords from generation to generation. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

I am worried that the next generation will not be able to have a real conversation. — Ruth Westheimer

Perhaps I was born too early. I was more the painter of your generation than of mine. — Paul Cezanne

I don't like giving names to generations. It's like trying to read the song title on a record that's spinning. — Ian Williams

It is time for the next generations to continue our struggle against social injustice and for the rights of humanity. It is in your hands. — Nelson Mandela

Even if we mortgage the next 100 years of generations of human beings, we would not have enough energy to build a Death Star. — Michio Kaku

The Internet is the quarry from which younger generations craft their own selves and then advertise a desired persona on Facebook. — Michael S. Horton

The primary means of energy generation is going to solar. It will at least be a plurality, and probably be a slight majority in the long term. — Elon Musk

Each age stands on the shoulders of the one that has gone before, and out of the revolt of the old is fashioned the new. — Eloise Lownsbery

If you would do the best with your life, find out what God is doing in your generation and throw yourself wholly into it. — Arthur Wallis

Artists of my generation were not educated. We were not given the equipment because it was generally believed to be irrelevant. — Eric Fischl

Showing charity towards others is the biggest lesson we can
teach our children to guide them in their future on this planet. — Simin Hashemizadeh

I guess there was some Casper guy, like, 10 generations ago who I'm named after. I'm the 11th. My son is Casper the XII. — Casper Van Dien

Ruling elites seem to have learned through the generations - consciously or not - that war makes them more secure against internal trouble. — Howard Zinn

For previous generations, swimming the English Channel was the feat to accomplish. And that's been done. — Diana Nyad

When you know even for a moment
That it's your time
Then you can walk with the power
Of a thousand generations — Bruce Cockburn

We have a great responsibility. Whatever we make will become the truth, the visual reality that a generation will accept. — James Cameron

I feel like the Kurt Cobain of my generation, but people just don't understand me, — Justin Bieber

I'm glad the Cube is reaching new generations, who face it with fresh wonder, curiosity and enthusiasm. — Erno Rubik

Ere many generations pass, our machinery will be driven by a power obtainable at any point of the universe. — Nikola Tesla

Let the generations know that women in uniform also guaranteed their freedom. — Mary Edwards Walker

The smell of blood remains for generations. — Kristian Goldmund Aumann

The soil is actually the greatest technology we have for adapting to climate change. And I feel it's our generation's duty to build it back up. — Jason Mraz

Isserley walked along the path the generations of sheep-flocks had made, up the tiers of the hill. In her mind, she was already — Michel Faber

The only source of the generation of additional capital goods is saving. If all the goods produced are consumed, no new capital comes into being. — Ludwig Von Mises

I became the voice of a generation in a very surprising way, because many Iranians recognize themselves in it. But that is not what I wanted. — Marjane Satrapi

I joined the Safe Climate Caucus because I believe in leaving a safer planet for future generations. — Mark Pocan

Art is how a culture records its life, how it poses questions for the next generation and how it will be remembered. — Marsha Norman

The irony of the matter is that the future generations do not have a vote. In effect, we hold their proxy. — Charles J. Hitch

In the same way that Shakespeare was writing very much for his time, he was also unearthing observations that would last for generations beyond him. — Alexis Denisof

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

The only future we count is the time and the moments we can take a breath and leave a word for the future coming generations. — Auliq Ice

Let the future say of our generation that we sent forth mighty currents of hope and that we worked together to heal the world. — Jeffrey Sachs

In real life there are indeed black people who have been in the middle class for generations, but in entertainment it's as if they don't exist. — Stephen Carter

Mr. Bush is flaky, incompetent, and the most dangerous American president in a generation. — Mark Latham

One of the things I want to do as an artist is to connect generations. — Isaac Hanson

I think there's been a reaction to the user generation source of travel information, — Arthur Frommer

I was the only male of the Arnaz family in my generation. — Desi Arnaz

If you make the tough decisions, people will hate you today. But they will thank you for generations. — Meryl Streep

Over the generations, black leaders have ranged from noble souls to shameless charlatans. — Thomas Sowell

When you believe you have a future, you think in terms of generations and years. When you do not, you live not just by the day - but by the minute. — Iris Chang

The trouble with the younger generation is that they don't stay young for very long. — Albert Einstein

A program whose basic thesis is, not that the system of free enterprise for profit has failed in this generation, but that it has not yet been tried! — Franklin D. Roosevelt

When it comes to lead referral generation,
the customer experience is it. — John Jantsch

We need an angry generation, A generation to plow the horizons — Nizar Qabbani

Each movement during combat honors the movements that the previous generations tried to transmit through the Tradition. — Paulo Coelho

Isn't it a shame that future generations can't be here to see all the wonderful things we're doing with their money? — Earl Wilson

[Invading Iraq] would create generations that hated the USA. — Jerry Springer

A work settles nothing, just as the labor of a whole generation settles nothing. Sons, and the morrow, always start afresh. — Cesare Pavese

It has always been the task of the new generation to provoke changes. — Ludwig Von Mises

We know that the next several generations need a better world to live in, which can only be a post-Obama World. — Kesha Rogers

Each generation should be made to bear the burden of its own wars, instead of carrying them on, at the expense of other generations. — James Madison

One of the fundamental missions of a family business is to pass the business to subsequent generations. — Janis Raye