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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.
And for him [Kurt Cobain] to do that [suicide] - I didn't like that. I thought that was just wrong. It just sent a bad message to a troubled 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.
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.
The young very seldom lead anything in our country today. It's been quite some time since a younger generation pushed an older one to a higher standard.
America needs a new approach to boost the economy - one that does not doom future generations to being saddled with paying off today's federal deficits.
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.
Jesus still has a really great reputation and the Spirit is still moving. I've got a lot of hope for a generation that takes Jesus seriously, once again.
I remember being awed by it - the uniqueness and nicety of style - and I suspect I was a bit jealous because we were more or less of the same generation.
Honestly, in retrospect, I would wish for future generations to have the ability to have a coming out process that was less alcohol-soaked than mine was.
For how many generations now had his people been turning their backs on things? How long had they sat in their living rooms and watched other people die?
I grew up on Nickelodeon.On All That and Are You Afraid of the Dark, and Salute Your Shorts and Rocco's Modern Life and all that. That was my generation.
The world is no longer closed to us in the way it was in the past - present generations have unparalleled access to pretty much all corners of the globe.
In the fifth season [of Star Trek: The Next Generation] viewers will see more of shipboard life [including] gay crew members in day-to-day circumstances.
As major orchestras around the world are gripped in various kinds of crises and upheaval, we need to be sure that we are bringing up this new generation.
What I'd like to do is be able to work with Democrats to reform current entitlement programs for future generations, grandfathering all the grandparents.
Every few generations there are people who come along that change the way we look at the world, for musical enthusiasts Monk is one of these individuals.
In times of war, it is often best to look to our history to see how past generations of Americans dealt with the loss of their countrymen in just causes.
We owe it to ourselves and to the next generation to conserve the environment so that we can bequeath our children a sustainable world that benefits all.
Man's true taproots are nourished in the sequence of generations, and he loses his taproots in disrupted developmental time, not in abandoned localities.
Being an Israeli is to know that you have risen from the ashes of those who were killed and knowing you have a responsibility for the coming generations.
Civilizations are built by the ceaseless toil of a succession of generations. With softness and sloth, civilizations succumb. Let us beware of decadence.
I believe in traditions; I believe in the idea of things being passed between generations and the slow transmission of cultural values through tradition.
My great-great-grandfather, who made his money in the jute trade, had at one time 600 houses in London, and within three generations, the money was gone.
My great-grandparents have some beautiful sculptures which have come down the generations. They are priceless and whenever I look at them, I am inspired.
Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience... from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
[American Citizenship] captures the enduring idea that this country only works when we accept certain obligations to one another and to future generations
Just after the war, the liberation of 1945, [Albert] Camus was well known, well loved by [Jean-Paul ] Sartre and all the intellectuals of that generation.
Despite everything that Harlem did to our generation, I think it gave something to a few. It gave them a strength that couldn't be obtained anywhere else.
Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.
What I'm doing is keeping the spirit of Rock'N Roll alive. Rock 'n roll is supposed to be fast and loud and its supposed to piss off the older generation.
With the passage of years, not all of Dicken's readers remained infatuated with his pathos. One generation's sublimity became another generation's kitsch.
Ayrton Senna was an extraordinary racing driver. His skills, craft, subtlety and courage were of such magnitude that he dwarfed his generation of drivers.
Almost a decade removed from the foreclosure crisis that began in 2008, the nation is facing one of the worst affordable-housing shortages in generations.
We are going to have to go through generations of change before we see the impact of females taking a role in the workplace and Formula 1 is no different.
Every generation, no matter how paltry its character, thinks itself much wiser than the one immediately preceding it, let alone those that are more remote.
Britain still has the most reliably beautiful countryside of anywhere in the world. I would hate to be part of the generation that allowed that to be lost.
Planning ahead is a measure of class. The rich and even the middle class plan for future generations, but the poor can plan ahead only a few weeks or days.
I was in that generation where I was torn if you should put it on the web because you're giving it away for free but you also want people to see your work.
When I was nine I spent a lot of my time reading books about the history of comedy, or listening to the Goons or Hancock, humour from previous generations.
President Obama has piled on more taxes, more regulations, more debt for future generations and higher health care costs - hurting our Main Street economy.
We need to have a vision of the world we want to create so that we can see ourselves as collaborators with future generations in the project of shaping it.
Leaders are like gardeners ... As leaders we are not only responsible for harvesting our own success but for cultivating the success of the next generation.
Affection is the most important thing. And the quality of affection - with your friends, your lovers, your family. But particularly for your own generation.
I come from way north. We'd listen to radio shows all the time. I think I was the last generation, or pretty close to the last one, that grew up without TV.
I kind of like that romantic image of being in a rocker with my family gathered around, all these generations in one room, listening intently to my stories.
My parents always went to rallies and demonstrated against certain things; my generation, we often have a political conscience, but we're not that involved.
The present generation has been born into a throwaway society of consumers in which both goods and young people are increasingly objectified and disposable.
I am surprised and embarrassed to be a part of the first American generation to leave the country in far worse shape than it was when we first came into it.
I've led this empty life for over forty years and now I can pass that heritage on and ensure that the misery will continue for at least one more generation.