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Letter "G" » Generations
«Nothing is more singular about this generation than its addiction to music.»
«Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn't have anything to do with it.»
«I see no hope for the future of our people if they are dependent on the frivolous youth of today, for certainly all youth are reckless beyond words. When I was a boy, we were taught to be discrete and respectful of elders, but the present youth are exceedingly wise and impatient of restraint.»
Author: Hesiod
| About:
Future,
Generations,
Hope,
Youth
| Keywords:
dependent, dependent on, discrete, elders, exceedingly, frivolous, Future of, impatient, impatient of, reckless, respectful, restraint
«My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our Cabernet stage.»
Author: Peggy Noonan
(Author, Journalist, Political analyst)
| About:
Choice,
Generations
| Keywords:
Cabernet, chose, existential, faced, grew, marijuana, My Generation, religious belief, religious beliefs
«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.»
«Our generation has an incredible amount of realism, yet at the same time it loves to complain and not really change. Because, if it does change, then it won't have anything to complain about.»
Author: Tori Amos
(Singer)
| About:
Generations,
Realism
| Keywords:
amount, at the same time, complain, generation, incredible, realism
«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»
Author: Abraham Lincoln
(President)
| About:
Generations
| Keywords:
convulsion, convulsions, hush, hushed, pertains
«Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.»
Author: Bill Cosby
(Actor, Comedian, Producer)
| About:
Consequences,
Generations,
Music
| Keywords:
clothes, developed, eight, evening clothes, generations, nine, passions, procrastination, separates, Weird
«I care about our young people, and I wish them great success, because they are our Hope for the Future, and some day, when my generation retires, they will have to pay us trillions of dollars in social security»
Author: Dave Barry
(Humorist, Writer)
| About:
Generations,
Hope,
Youth
| Keywords:
a trillion, dollars, My Generation, retires, Social Security, trillion, trillions
«Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it onto future generations.»
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