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Sometimes to think about why some institutions are stable, it's interesting to go one generation back and look at the author of that stability.
It is a wise provision that youth cannot see what it owes the previous generation. This is a chicken that comes back to roost in heavier years.
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.
My music translates again and again to younger generations of players because I broke all the rules, and they can break all the rules now, too.
I wanna be a part of the generation that throws out money, throws out time, throws out all that we are against something bigger than ourselves.
Sometimes in the history of art it is possible to describe a period or a generation of artists as having been obsessed by a particular problem.
I am not sure that you, the younger generations, will like to go to war that we went through. So, we learn as the mistakes are being committed.
Protecting eagles from the threat of extinction is a conservation success story that we must prudently safeguard for future generations to come.
Hillary Clinton understands that a president's job is to worry about future generations, not the short-term profits of the fossil fuel industry.
In films, usually we see romantic relationships between a hero and a heroine all the time. But we rarely see love between the older generations.
I really hate to see abusive behavior being passed on from generation to generation to generation, when we have access to health and counseling.
I believe that we are the generation that will rise and fulfill the Great Commission. But if we don't; some generation will. God has decreed it!
I don't know what you mean when you say 'the whole world' or 'generations before him.'I thought there was only us. I thought there was only now.
Once your children are grown up and have children of their own, the problems are theirs and the less the older generation interferes the better.
When you have a natural genetic tan developed over centuries and many generations, the idea of soaking up rays by the pool has never made sense.
If we intend to provide a better life, and a better world, for future generations, we can't ignore the quality of the environment we leave them.
This generation should entertain this generation. It's only fair. When I was a kid, I mowed the lawn. Now, somebody else's kid can mow the lawn.
The 2012 London Olympic Games fostered a generation of hope. I witnessed women participating for the very first time, representing every nation.
I plant a lot of trees. I am a great believer in planting things for future generations. I loathe the now culture where you just live for today.
I have to say, this sounds like the worst idea in a thousand generations of bad ideas." "You haven't heard all our ideas." Luke & Bhindi Drayson
Libraries are filled with stories on generations of brutal men, trapped in a cycle of aggression. I wanted to write about the violence of women.
I feel more like a father to a child: my Cube inspired thousands of 'twisty puzzles,' and I'm amazed how it continues to excite new generations.
There were no formerly heroic times, and there was no formerly pure generation. There is no one here but us chickens, and so it has always been.
I'm so excited to be carrying on in Dad's footsteps and making sure that everything he worked so hard for continues for the generations to come.
Great orators who are not also great writers become very indistinct shadows to the generations following them. The spell vanishes with the voice.
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.
DNA is the messenger which illuminates that connection,handed down from generation to generation,carried,literally,in the bodies of my ancestors.
More than a quarter of a century into the band's career together, it's inspiring to hear Melvins continue to deafen new generations of listeners.
I don't agree with the whole 'my mother's my friend' approach, because you're their mum and there has to be a difference between the generations.
We're achieving better marbling and better flavor with old world wisdom that's been passed down for generations but we're still using technology.
I was one of the first generations to watch television. TV exposes people to news, to information, to knowledge, to entertainment. How is it bad?
Led Zeppelin has been there through three generations of teenage angst. And there's a generation of kids now who won't know it, post-Linkin Park.
Musical theater must adapt to the fact that music is done by people. The new generation will do something different. That is great! That is good.
It is pure illusion to think that an opinion which passes down from century to century, from generation to generation, may not be entirely false.
I don't want to see a president of the United States saying things which change the character of the generations of Americans that are following.
I am ever hopeful that there are generations of young Chinese people who are really thinking about the future and what kind of society they want.
The environment that we call society is created by past generations; we accept it, as it helps us to maintain our greed, possessiveness, illusion.
Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.
I haven't actually checked my family tree, but Rutherford is a very old Scottish name, so I've probably got Scottish genes a few generations back.
The chain of life runs smoothly from one generation to the next and none of the links stand out except here and there a link one sees by accident.
There is a desire for change. There is a millennial generation that doesn't like what they're seeing, but doesn't quite know what the solution is.
Every Irish person of my generation and earlier, we were raised Catholic and we'd have to learn it in school, we'd to learn the catechism by rote.
Every generation thinks they invented sex, which is the stupidest assumption in the world because if that was the case, you wouldn't even be here.
I'm Korean-American. Not Colombian. My parents are first-generation, and I'm like... in-between, because I moved over here when I was four or five.
I don't want to live in a bubble, in my craft or in the world... I can't, I would be cheating myself out of my generation and the world we live in.
Younger generations, they ask more questions, like on a recipe. But they ask them online. If my staff doesn't know how to answer it, I will answer.
It's always great playing with other musicians. It's also a great situation where I'm the older guy, I've influenced generations of guitar players.
As is the case with that generation [Millennials], they look like they're interested and all fired up and ready to go, and then Election Day comes.
I don't think radio has to be sectioned off where you listen to the music for your generation and your son listens to the music for his generation.
You really have to prove yourself and prove your worth. I didn't come from family that had been here for generations and had all these connections.