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I'm from a small town on the bottom edge of Mississippi, very near New Orleans and the Louisiana border. My family has lived there for generations.
What a tragedy it was that the only thing age could offer to youth was its own experience, and that the experiences of others were never profitable.
I feel like we were the last generation, and there's this big divide before and after the 1990s. I feel sorry for the kids today. It's all too much.
Further, the next generation of terrorists will grow up in a digital world, with ever more powerful and easy-to-use hacking tools at their disposal.
The Caribbean world has changed radically since the 1960s, and postcolonial generations have very different mentalities from those that went before.
I like to do theater and hopefully be effective. Most actors, at least contemporary actors of my generation, can't do it. They don't have the chops.
We've created the best indoor winter facility in the world. Having set that benchmark, it could inspire a whole new generation throughout the world.
From the radio and the world wide web, to the steam engine and penicillin, for generations the U.K. has been a world-leader in science and research.
Even the most wretched individual of our present society could not exist and develop without the cumulative social efforts of countless generations.
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.
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.
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.
For generations America and its institutions have refused to acknowledge the true severity of the harm that domestic violence imposes on our society.
Each generation imagines that we're all going to hell. Each generation goes through a little hell and comes out heat tempered and better than before.
The world economy is more stable than for a generation ... Our hugely sophisticated financial markets match funds with ideas better than ever before.
There are so few surprises left in life. We've gotten so addicted to knowing. It's the Google generation. We want the answer to everything right now!
Friction and misunderstandings often occur when communicating across generations. It gets even more challenging when working across virtual settings.
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!
Opening for Louis C.K. during his "Hilarious" tour was a great experience for me. He is the generation just ahead of me, because he started so young.
My generation has failed miserably. We've failed because of lack of courage and vision. It requires more courage to keep the peace than to go to war.
Much of the usefulness of any career must lie in the impress that it makes upon, and the lessons that it teaches to, the generations that come after.
Out of everyone at Manchester United, I would pick out Scholes, he is the best midfielder of his generation. I would had loved to play alongside him.
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.
Festival of the impassioned efforts and manifold ambitions of all forms of youthful activity of every generation springing from the threshold of life.
There is always Joker to see through the delusion. Generation succeeds generation, but there is a fool walking the earth who is never ravaged by time.
Future generations of economists will look at the trickle-down theory in much the same way we now look at witch burning, slavery, and the Sinclair C5.
We, the generation that faces the next century, can add the solemn injunction ''If we don't do the impossible, we shall be faced with the unthinkable.
Every kid Grade 6 and up carries a cellphone - with that they can access the world. They are the most connected, aware generation that's ever existed.
Why can't we summon the ingenuity and courage of the generations that came before us? The dinosaurs never saw that asteroid coming. What's our excuse?
When you're dealing with something sensitive, which is about culture, and its effect on a generation, you don't want any stones not to be turned over.
Have you stopped seeing great things happen in your life? Perhaps you have stopped believing that God can work in a mighty way even in our generation.
I suppose my biggest concern would be if the planet is going to be in good enough shape for the next generation to have the privileges that we've had.
This younger generation that's around, that's tweeting, Facebooking and Vine-ing, the fans appreciate that because they feel like they can get to you.
Our basic fundamental desires are overly stimulated. A friend of mine said, "you have a generation of people that have been accidentally marketed to."
Writing about carrying the past on your back is a manifestation of my Irishness, because we go on and on and will for another two or three generations.
Pop artists deal with the lowly trivia of possessions and equipment that the present generation is lugging along with it on its safari into the future.
After numerous generations of people dedicated to killing wolves on the North American continent, one generation devoted itself to letting wolves live.
If we care about the children, the grandchildren, the future generations, we need to make sure that they do not become the cannon fodder of the future.
I've survived quite a few generations. That's because I never lost my enthusiasm. I wake up every morning like on Christmas Day, waiting for the gifts.
We have a new generation of very rich people who want to do more with their money than buy a lot of expensive toys. They want to live meaningful lives.
Hardworking Americans are fighting every day to provide for themselves and their families, and leave a more prosperous country for the next generation.
Mine is the first generation able to contemplate the possibility that we may live our entire lives without going to war or sending our children to war.
There's a whole generation coming up behind us that was engaged, inspired, worked for change during the course of my presidency, saw what was possible.
[The generation engaged, inspired, worked for change] that generation, it's coming. They're not the majority yet but they're gonna be the majority soon.
Individually, every grain of sand brushing against my hands represents a story, an experience, and a block for me to build upon for the next generation.
The highly motivated young people who comprise the backbone of our military force truly are taking their place as one of America's greatest generations.
Gertrude Stein did us the most harm when she said, 'You're all a lost generation.' That got around to certain people and we all said, 'Whee! We're lost.
The voice of Vin Scully has become the song of summer for generations of Los Angeles baseball fans and aficionados of excellence in sports broadcasting.
If you grew up in my generation, you're going to be influenced by Run DMC, the Beastie Boys and also listen to Metallica - it wasn't segregated anymore.
My sister and my brother, of whom I have not spoken before, were considerably older than I; it seemed almost as if we belonged to different generations.