1272 Generation Quotes for You to Enjoy

History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth. E. L. Doctorow

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The Haisla named this point Obela. Not so long ago, the bay was lined with longhouses and canoes, totem poles and fishing gear. The reserve was once a winter village, a place to celebrate the sacred season, when memories passed in dance and song and stories from one generation to the next with great feasts called potlatches. Eden Robinson

Great Memories Winter Celebrate Generation Song Dance Long Once Bay Gear Totem Feast Point Sacred Named Poles Passed Fishing Lined Stories Place Next Village Reserve Season

I belonged to the 'Point Break' generation - I watched the original when I was 13 years old. It's basically the story of the rescue of the human spirit, and we continue to fight that same spiritual battle, but with a political expression. Edgar Ramirez

In a novel, I think you have a contract with the reader to make the character representative - of a moment in history, a social class... for instance, I wanted to make the boy in 'A Boy's Own Story' more like other gay men of my generation in their youth and not like me. Edmund White

Character Me Gay History You Class Youth Generation Men Own Think Other My Generation More Instance Like Make Reader Boy Contract Representative Wanted Story Social Social Class Moment Novel

APL is a mistake, carried through to perfection. It is the language of the future for the programming techniques of the past: it creates a new generation of coding bums. Edsger Dijkstra

Future Generation Mistake Language Past Programming Carried Through Perfection New New Generation Bums Creates Coding Techniques

After a big war a nation doesn't want another for a generation or more. Edward Grey

War Generation Big Nation More Another Want After

American women mean a great deal to me. They're such lost souls, particularly the women of my generation. And women need so much help. They never have anyone to turn to. I help them understand how they can look better, how to do this, do that, get a job. And they're very trusting. Like little lost kids. Eileen Ford

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Dogs are a companion species. It's about time - you have an animal for about 15, 16 years, a generation. That time holds so much. You might have had five or six relationships with human beings but one dog. Eileen Myles

I didn't fully realize it at the time, but the goal of my life was profoundly molded by this experience - to help produce, in the next generation, more Mother Teresas and less Hitlers. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Life Time Generation Experience Mother My Life More Goal Realize Produce Next Next Generation Molded Less Help Fully Profoundly

I've always considered myself a feminist. But, like a lot of women of my generation, I didn't think we had to fight for it. I thought it was all done. I took so much for granted. Elisabeth Moss

Myself Fight Generation Women Thought Think Took Considered My Generation Had Like Always Feminist Lot Done Much Granted

The Millennial Generation is being crushed by soaring college costs and student loan debt, and as lawmakers, we must find solutions to address affordability and flexibility in higher education. Elise Stefanik

Education Generation Loan College Higher Education Crushed Address Must Solutions Find Lawmakers Costs Higher Student Debt Being Soaring Flexibility

I had this perception based on my own frustrations with Washington, but I didn't realize until I launched this campaign how much people are looking for a new generation of leadership and a new approach in Washington. Elise Stefanik

I think there's something beautifully old fashioned about waiting all week then sitting down and watching something on television together. I'm generation box set, accustomed to binging on multiple episodes at a time, which is fun but quite a solitary pursuit because you do it alone. Elizabeth Debicki

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The language of the younger generation has the brutality of the city and an assertion of threatening power at hand, not to come. It is military, theatrical, and at its most coherent probably a lasting repudiation of empty courtesy and bureaucratic euphemism. Elizabeth Hardwick

I've struggled so much, growing up, with just feeling that my life is valid because it's not filled with these hyper-dramatic moments, and I think a lot of people of my generation feel that way. We're so inundated with hyper-drama that people crave everyday life. Ellar Coltrane

Life Generation People Everyday Life My Life Feeling Think Everyday Valid Way Inundated My Generation Struggled Feel Because Lot Up Just Crave Much Moments Filled Growing Growing Up

Morality in its noblest forms remains inexplicable unless one takes into account that power of growth in the human soul which has led generation after generation from lower religious and ethical standards to higher ones which often clash with worldly advantages. Ellen Key

Soul Generation Power Worldly Unless Clash Religious Morality Remains Higher Takes Advantages Noblest Inexplicable Led Account Often Human After Which Forms Ethical Lower Standards Human Soul Growth

With DNA, you have to be able to tell which genes are turned on or off. Current DNA sequencing cannot do that. The next generation of DNA sequencing needs to be able to do this. If somebody invents this, then we can start to very precisely identify cures for diseases. Elon Musk

'Plan Nine From Outer Space' for a new generation, 'Battlefield Earth' is set in the year 3000, after the beings from the planet Psychlo have conquered our planet in only nine minutes. Elvis Mitchell

I was raised in Arizona, and I went to public school, and the extent of my knowledge of the civil-rights movement was the story of Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King, Jr. I wonder how much my generation knows. Emma Stone

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I'm a feminist, but I think that romance has been taken away a bit for my generation. I think what people connect with in novels is this idea of an overpowering, encompassing love - and it being more important and special than anything and everything else. Emma Watson

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COP 21 provides a unique opportunity for the political leaders of this generation to provide lasting foundations for the preservation and sustainability of generations of the future. Enda Kenny

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It's obvious that Pemex doesn't have the financial capacity to be in every single front of energy generation. Enrique Pena Nieto

Generation Financial Single Energy Every Obvious Front Capacity

I've had an affinity for Michael Jordan. He's probably the greatest athlete in my generation. Enzo Amore

Generation Athlete My Generation Had He Jordan Greatest Affinity Michael Michael Jordan

Music's cyclical. There's always that next generation that always comes along. Eric Church

Music Generation Along Always Next Next Generation Cyclical

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