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Quotes About Generations

For in this century, within the next decades, will be decided for generations whether all mankind is to become Communist, whether the whole world is to become free, or whether, in the struggle, civilization as we know it is to be completely destroyed or completely changed.
~ Whittaker Chambers
My family, for generations, has struggled through the effects of working blue-collar jobs long past the age of retirement.
~ Stephanie Land
Maya Angelou was the voice of three generations. Her poetry spanned our journey, chronicled our hearts and documented our struggles as we moved from the orations of Martin Luther King to the presidency of Barack Obama.
~ Donna Brazile
A lot of people in this country right now are living with multiple generations under one roof, struggling to make ends meet.
~ Martha Plimpton
I've always been optimistic. And I have a feeling that it happened because of going to all those movies with my grandmother in the '40s because there was no cynicism.
~ Carol Burnett
When I was growing up, both my grandmothers would play the organ, and we would all sing.
~ Janelle Monae
Telling my grandchildren stories of my growing up is some of our favorite times spent together. They want to know what it was like and what I did as a child. They seem to be especially interested in the organic and simplistic setting I grew up in.
~ Lidia Bastianich
I didn't realize there are generations who do not know about the origins of film.
~ Martin Scorsese
Who are we to think that our generation is going to be the first generation to benefit from all the sacrifices that others have made without giving some modern-day equivalent of our own lives, fortunes, and sacred honor?
~ Matt Bevin
We've influenced other artists, and when younger generations become fans of those artists and hear about us, they discover our music too.
~ Curt Smith
It's really a blessing that our music can reach across generations.
~ Kevin Olusola
Pele was the best of his era, Diego Maradona was the Pele of the Eighties, and Ronaldinho is the Pele of our time.
~ Cafu
Having played in the league during the '80s, '90s, and the new millennium (old, I know), I had the chance to see firsthand how the best point guards of our time played the game.
~ Reggie Miller
My father married once. I married once. This is a conviction of ours. This is the way we grew up.
~ Chuck Berry
As we continue to discuss ways to make our environment cleaner, and more just, for generations to come we must not forget our nation's history of racial and economic injustice and the health outcomes it's led to.
~ Mikie Sherrill
My goal is for Gunnar to outlive me. That's the way it should be. My dream is for him to be a dad himself one day, so he can find out all the anxiety that kids bring to their dads.
~ Boomer Esiason
I've got nine kids, nine dogs, three grandkids - and one in the oven. And three parrots!
~ Michael Landon
As Members of Congress and people of conscience, we must work to overcome the indifference and distortions of history, and ensure that future generations know what happened.
~ Jerry Costello
Maybe Ã¢â'¬Â¦ an old story passed down on Mai's maternal side huddled together in the internment camps of '42, keeping themselves alive with the stories. But keeping separate even then, even there, the threads of the Japanese, Chinese, Filipino elders. Stories keeping the people in the camps alive while the bill in Congress to sterilize the women of the camps got voted down by one vote, one vote. And then the silence. A whole generation silent
~ Toni Cade Bambara
And I will have mercy through a thousand generations on those who have love for me and keep my laws. -Exodus 20:6
~ Unknown
To die is to depart, to go away from these things forever and become one with the generations that have preceded us since the beginning of time, a whispered memory in the bones and whiskers of the generations to come.
~ Paul Gallico
They're like Generation X on steroids. They walk in with high expectations for themselves, their employer, their boss. If you thought you saw a clash when Generation X came into the workplace—that was the fake punch. The haymaker is coming now.
~ Unknown
T-shirt with the saying "I May Be Old, but I Got to See All the Cool Bands.
~ Paul Levine
Each movement during combat honors the movements that the previous generations tried to transmit through the Tradition.
~ Paulo Coelho