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You can take as much as you can from the generation that has preceded you, but then it's up to you to make something new.

Jackson Browne
generationsup-to-yousomething-new

The 2012 London Olympic Games fostered a generation of hope. I witnessed women participating for the very first time, representing every nation.

Jackie Joyner-Kersee
generationslondongames
I think as a celebrity, we have to teach the young generation how... by Jackie Chan

I think as a celebrity, we have to teach the young generation how to speak with the old generation.

Jackie Chan
young-generationgenerationsthinking

It’s a sort of furtiveness … Like we were a generation of furtive. You know, with an inner knowledge there’s no use flaunting on that level, the level of the ‘public’, a kind of beatness – I mean, being right down to it, to ourselves, because we all really know where we are – and a weariness with all the forms, all the conventions of the world … It’s something like that. So I guess you might say we’re a beat generation.

Jack Kerouac
generationsusemean

This is a very connected, tolerant, creative generation, but a lot of them feel really constrained because they've got this big debt.

Hillary Clinton
debtgenerationscreative
The beat generation (coined in Playboy) by Jack Kerouac

The beat generation (coined in Playboy)

Jack Kerouac
playboybeatsgenerations
The ukulele has always appealed to the older generation. by Jake Shimabukuro

The ukulele has always appealed to the older generation.

Jake Shimabukuro
older-generationukulelegenerations

When William the Conqueror commissioned a great survey of his English realm at Gloucester in 1085, the result was a work so thorough, fair, dispassionate, and wide-ranging that it seemed to the succeeding generations to have come from another world.

James Buchan
succeedgenerationsworld
War is devastating, and it leaves its scars for generations. by James Blunt

War is devastating, and it leaves its scars for generations.

James Blunt
scargenerationswar
Anyone of my generation who tells you he hasn't 'done Brando' is... by James Caan

Anyone of my generation who tells you he hasn't 'done Brando' is lying.

James Caan
generationsdonelying

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

James Cameron
generationsresponsibilityreality

The greatest significance of the present student generation is that it is through them that the point of view of the subjugated is finally and inexorably being expressed.

James A. Baldwin
generationsstudentsviews

A politician thinks about the next elections - the statesman thinks about the next generations.

James Freeman
nextgenerationsthinking
One generation abandons the enterprises of another like stranded... by Henry David Thoreau

One generation abandons the enterprises of another like stranded vessels.

Henry David Thoreau
youthgenerationsage

It seems to be typical of life in America ... that the second generation has no time to talk to the first.

James A. Baldwin
typicalgenerationsamerica

Everything that you are taking advantage of, inventing and using, is still a generation or two behind when it comes to the U.S. government.

Hillary Clinton
generationsgovernmenttwo

Several times in Earth's history, rapid global warming occurred, apparently spurred by amplifying feedbacks. In each case, more than half of plant and animal species became extinct. New species came into being over tens and hundreds of thousands of years. But these are time scales and generations that we cannot imagine.

James Hansen
generationsanimalyears

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.

James Levine
upheavalgenerationsneeds

I feel blessed in the knowledge that I probably belong to the last generation that will remember what we call "traditional America."

James Lee Burke
generationsblessedamerica
Woe be to the generation that lets any higher faculty in its mids... by Henry David Thoreau

Woe be to the generation that lets any higher faculty in its midst go unemployed.

Henry David Thoreau
midstwoegenerations
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