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Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great. You can be that great generation.

Nelson Mandela

Each generation will reap what the former generation has sown.

Chinese Proverb

A generation which ignores history has no past and no future.

Robert A. Heinlein

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.

Henry David Thoreau

Haldeman is the only man in America in this generation who let his hair grow for a courtroom appearance.

Mary Mcgrory

The end of a generation.

Chuck Armstrong

The invention of film has given our generation the dubious advantage of watching our acting heroes deteriorate before our eyes.

Robert Brustein

What happens when that boomer generation retires?

Doug Reichardt

She is the Donald Trump of the younger generation.

Al Ries

It changed me more than anything else. You don't want to get to that place where you're the adult and you're palpably in the next generation. And, this shoved me into that.

Gwyneth Paltrow

His distinct voice was a comfort to a generation of baseball fans in New England and throughout the country.

Bud Selig

He plants trees to benefit another generation.

Caecilius Statius

In animals, we have seen very serious genetic consequences coming not only in the first generation but in further generations.

Ivan Blokov

I'm excited to be part of this generation. Good for Candace.

Ambrosia Anderson

It's a generation of Australians that one wonders if we will ever see again in the future.

Anne Kelly

Every writer is a writer of the generation before.

Wilfrid Sheed

We are talking about the next generation of the CBC, ... We are a family, and the family goes from generation to generation.

Arnold Amber

We lack a new generation of people to represent Chinese kung fu.

Fu Min

I hope this will be an inspiration for the future generation of skaters.

Shizuka Arakawa

The next generation is a place where the best idea, not the biggest budget will win.

Satoru Iwata

Politicians all too often think about the next election. Statesmen think about the next generation.

Linda Lingle

The competition draws the next generation of scientists and engineers.

Jim Ellis

The new generation of fathers is interested in doing this, and fathers are taking more time to be with their children.

Cindy Chu

The new generation is not coming from the media, from radio airplay or whatever because we don't get it.

Rick Wakeman

It's a collaboration that goes clear to Japan. It's a new generation of representations of the sky.

Neil Degrasse Tyson

The other girls are so young, ... They're not our generation.

Irina Slutskaya

Each generation is being reduced by about a third.

Norbert Walter

So one strategy that we need to develop more is to develop income generation projects.

Maha Muna

Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn't have anything to do with it.

Dr. Haim Ginott

I need as much as I can get. The cost of living for our generation is way higher than it was for our parents.

Michael Nichols

It's one of the largest financial fraud cases to come out of the Pacific Northwest in a generation.

Patrick Murphy

It's been slow, but it's there. It's noticeable when you compare it to a past generation.

Henry Saffer

This is a generation that has a tremendous amount of disposable income.

Gary Colen

I was really disappointed that he didn't even give it a chance because we are the future generation of Kansas.

Stephanie Waxman

The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind.

James Truslow Adams

Baby boomers come from a generation not afraid to spoil themselves and have no guilt spending on themselves.

Michael Dominguez

Every generation is obsessed with the decade before they were born.

Fiona Shaw

We've got the first generation of significantly educated people. There's a black middle class like never before.

Harry Alford

Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.

Lewis Mumford

There is a whole generation of homebuyers stuck out in far suburbs.

Atsushi Nakajima

He deserves a ton of credit for making the sport what it has become. He's the Vince McMahon of his generation.

David Meltzer

Office romance just doesn't carry the same stigma it did a generation ago.

Mark Oldman

We've done a lot of things right. Let's talk about the city we will leave for the next generation.

Robbie Vitrano

Among the current generation of players, he is the best after, of course, Adam Gilchrist.

Rodney Marsh

I have come to the conclusion that none of us in our generation feels as guilty about sin as we should or as our forefathers did.

Francis Schaeffer

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind.

William James

Not only is the city at risk, but the culture is at risk. This might be the last generation to see how New Orleans was.

Travis Bockenstedt

The younger generation is more health conscious.

Robert Ortiz

This will be the online generation.

Sid Shuman

The purpose of this generation of GE leaders is to make the company as good externally and commercially as it has always been operationally and financially.

Jeff Immelt

We're the last generation that has these survivors pretty much.

Lisa Mendler

There is a lot of depression and anxiety among children. This is a generation that is growing up without the emotional support, love and care of the family.

Fran Miller

Our kids are the fifth generation to grow up here. This is the only home Art's ever known.

Marsha Lienemann

The basic globe was there. One generation did that. All we have done since then is refine that globe.

Seth Shostak

It's the absolute end of an era. He was the last of that generation. No one else is left.

Warren Miller

As a customer I have no concern that IBM is going to back off in investment here or not come out with the next generation of technology.

Chris Foster

One generation plants the trees, and another gets the shade.

Chinese Proverbs

Alan was one of the first writers of our generation, of great courage and literary skill.

Paul Levitz

I'm going to leave it to the new generation, to the crash-it-up robots that dominate the game.

David Campese

Every child and every generation must have the opportunity to explore, discover and learn in these outdoor classrooms.

Randy Widera

When the era of 3G [Third Generation] arrives with faster transmission speeds then Web access will become much easier for customers.

Keiji Tachikawa

The state has turned us into a generation of gamblers.

Tom Golisano

We don't care that much about Warren Beatty, and based on his ticket sales from the past generation, I doubt anyone else does either.

Margita Thompson

Nothing is more singular about this generation than its addiction to music.

Allan Bloom

My parents were both from extremely different backgrounds. My father's Italian, my mother was of Swedish descent. They're both first-generation Americans.

Susan Lucci

Since Samsung has invested so much in LCD technology, they would be the one to make the next-generation displays.

Peter Yu

They are very capable, very mature. Their desire to succeed is every bit what it was for our generation and our parents' generation.

Tom O'hare

If we can create teachers from our own students from this generation, we will be set for the next generation.

Maggie White

We believe this is a company transitioning from its older products to its next-generation products.

John Lau

An entire generation is growing up without parents, without teachers, without a future.

Mark Curtis

This generation will lead us to freedom.

Shamil Basayev

We haven't built a new refinery in a generation. We need more.

Fred Upton

I am very optimistic. I believe in the new generation of Muslims.

Mustafa Ceric

That's why I do this. I'm instilling the love of flight in the young generation.

Bill Bottle

We're very happy the numbers have come back though, ... The next generation will go to Texas to breed, the next generation will be in the Carolinas, and the next will come back to Connecticut.

Russ Miller

One of our key items of strategic focus is developing the next generation of leaders in the firm and the community.

Jack Walsh

Chinese film needs a brand-new generation of actors and actresses and more and more people will be needed to push Chinese films forward.

Wang Long

The Sixties: The Years That Shaped a Generation.

Daniel Ellsberg

What is buried in the past of one generation falls to the next to claim.

Susan Griffin

We're playing to the ADD generation - they don't watch as much linear programming.

Robert Clasen

We have gas plants and coal plants. Through different exchanges and bilateral agreements, we have bought carbon allowances to cover our generation position to 2007. There have been some days when we have been buyers of allowances, fewer days when we have been sellers.

Mark Klein

It may be on the radar for our friends at Western Digital, but it's not easy. We're already on our fifth-generation product. As they say, the best way to predict the future is to create it and that has been our belief.

Scott Maccabe

The younger generation is very different from our parents. There has been a big change in Chinese values.

Xu Fan

There was a sense among Roosevelt's generation the League of Nations had failed.

David Woolner

This is a phenomenon we're really seeing with your generation. It's a huge shift.

Carol Evans

I always call it the 'Catcher in the Rye' of the new generation.

Jessica Sharzer

It's not our fault our generation has short attention spans, Dad. We watch an appalling amount of TV.

Yeardley Smith

In every generation there has to be some fool who will speak the truth as he sees it.

Boris Pasternak

They'd have to sell off the generation assets.

Matthew Cordaro

We have been waiting for the new generation cars, we are not going to bring any of the old models.

Neville Crichton

There's definitely a new generation of fans out there coming out to hear us play.

Lee Rocker

Technology is taking this generation by storm.

Ron Luce

I felt I was passing the torch from one generation to the next.

Sherry Phelps

I think every generation brings a different perspective.

Vicki Hauser

The voice of a generation? Oh, the poor wee sod.

Lorraine Kelly

In general, everyone wants to work and work more. But in fact, when a young generation has sufficient capability then we should create conditions for them to work.

Nong Duc Manh

There's also a younger generation now earning money who grew up with computers, so they are comfortable with e-filing. They trust it.

Charlie Roberts

The buyback is a flexible component of our distribution to shareholders. I wouldn't read anything into it. It will depend on our cash generation as we go forward.

Henry Hubble

There is also a thread in the play about what it meant to be a son of a man from that generation. The quiet dad who never said much.

Spike Manton

I am the future generation. I believe peace, justice and brotherhood can be accomplished.

Lacy Howard

The boomers look better than any other generation their ages has. But as they now enter their 50s and 60s, their denial system is breaking down.

David Wolfe

He was one of the best inside-forwards of his or any other generation.

Denis Law

We are the new Rice Bowl, second generation.

Rose Fong

There's a great deal of concern in that generation about the possibility of outliving their wealth.

Daniel Fitzpatrick

This generation today has been exposed to more experimentation, and it's rare to find a candidate who has never tried anything.

Lt. Raul Munguia

We're building a next generation Command & Conquer game that is true to the spirit of this classic franchise.

Mike Verdu

The wisdom of one generation will be the folly of the next.

Joseph Priestly

The current generation being educated now, they really don't know what this country is all about.

John Earley

When the cost curve comes down and the standards stabilize, the third generation of DVD-RAM is probably going to become dominant.

John Mason Brown

We are f acing a generation of young singers who are much more diminutive in their approach to singing.

Jerome Hines

Will revive memories for us all and impact and excite a whole new generation.

Priscilla Presley

We're the baby-boomer generation who have become a bit disenchanted with traditional pensions.

Colin Smith

What I'm really pleased about is that these medals will be handed down from generation to generation.

Raymond Kelly

My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our Cabernet stage.

Peggy Noonan

We believe it'll take search design into the next generation.

Lisa Gurry

This was our best year ever for the generation of net income.

James Rogers

They are youth groups, church groups. Some are in their second and third generation.

Kent Perkins

There is such a thing as food and such a thing as poison. But the damage done by those who pass off poison as food is far less than that done by those who generation after generation convince people that food is poison.

Paul Goodman

I think there's a wonderful opportunity for this generation to do some magnanimous acts of charity, and I believe they will.

Jack Swallow

It is one of the things that shows Eclipse is entering a second generation.

Carey Schwaber

The greatest parliamentarian of his generation.

Dr. John Prescott

The following generation and the one thereafter are asking questions that were never asked before - sharp questions, ... The work has not been completed.

Heinz Fischer

They're just prolonging expenses for the next generation to pay.

Stephen Urban

I'll say yes, yes to the constitution with all 10 of my fingers, ... My daughters were so excited, and I wanted the new generation to see democracy.

Abdul Karim

I want to ensure that the legacy created by my mother more than four decades ago will carry on to the next generation.

Don Carter

This generation just wanted beautiful things. All the customers we grew up with loved the same things.

Lee Kirk

The most influential political economist of the last generation.

Jude Wanniski

It is a big blow to all of us. He was more of an elder brother to the whole generation of young leaders like me.

Ravishankar Prasad

We've received quite a bit of power generation from that. So it's been effective.

Gary Garnant

I don't think that Qualcomm has the third-generation cellular market or the CDMA market that the analysts were expecting.

Marc Gabelli

The generation before us didn't have these types of classes and maybe that's why a lot of them are in debt right now.

Morgan Smith

It was a landmark for the hip-hop generation.

Minya Oh

The most gifted of the new generation of American conductors.

David Robertson

I was a hot commodity, ... Being African-American didn't hurt me - I was one of the leading young theoretical economists of the generation.

Glenn Loury

I think this generation has a very 'me, me' attitude, and it's to our detriment.

Kevin Powell

It is important to hit the younger generation - they are the future donors.

Kathy Quirk

He appeals to corporate America because he does have a clean-cut image. He has no tattoos. At the same time, the way he plays, he does appeal to the hip-hop generation.

Henry Thomas

No new power plant will be allowed to consume natural gas for electricity generation from the year 2012.

Mahmudur Rahman

The first generation of equipment to verify the contents of containers can only detect one thing at a time. After 9/11, they disconnected drugs and connected explosives.

Xavier Raufer

The big take-away thought is that Xbox 360 has the games for the next generation.

Robert Bach

Develop leaders of the next generation, and not necessarily CEOs and presidents.

Robert Sternberg

Each new generation is a fresh invasion of savages.

Hervey Allen

The biggest thing is having a generation to take over. We could be retired, but we do this because we enjoy it.

Gail Kautz

We are aggressively driving the transformation to an entire new generation of multi-core servers.

Diane Bryant

The case for freedom, the case for our constitutional principles the case for our heritage has to be made anew in each generation. The work of freedom is never done.

Justice Anthony Kennedy

Here, we'll have a chance to influence the younger generation. They'll see another path they can follow.

Seth Wescott

They're just beginning to make their impact. No generation is all good or bad. It's all hindsight.

Neil Howe

She's as bright and capable as anybody in her generation.

Joshua B. Bolten

They're already on to the next generation.

Jonathan Taplin

This place was built on family. We're into our third generation and we want to make into our fourth generation.

Robert Mercurio

It was an idealistic vision that generation had.

Brian Hoffman

Drive-up stores represent the next generation for McDonald's in China.

Jeffrey Schwartz

Drugs have taught an entire generation of Americans the metric system.

P. J. O'Rourke

Your generation is exposed to more sexual images than any generation before. How does that affect you as an individual?

Michael Leahy

There's been a lot of buzz about Generation X and the growth of this market.

Jacki Mieler

This generation is so visual. You can't keep putting worksheets in front of them. They buy into this.

John Fuller

It must be something deep in our DNA. Even though the South has changed so much, it's still passed on from one generation to the next.

Charles Reagan Wilson

Jonathan has been a star of the company for a generation and we are all thrilled that he will remain at Covent Garden.

Tony Hall

A generation or two ago, the Republicans were the pro-choice party and the Democrats were considered the pro-life party.

Mark Shields

It's a change of generation. The older generation here said, 'Over my dead body.' Now it's coming in with the young generation.

Hugh Young

No art that is not in the end understood by the People can live or ever did live a single generation.

Frank Norris

One of the things the older generation understands is government and politics.

Tish Dietrich

We're certifying trust for the next generation of voters, one click at a time.

Ravi Singh

The younger generation is willing to get very personal on the Internet.

Jim Weaver

Denzil was one of the most talented footballers of his generation, who although never ever fulfilling his full potential always was a favourite at the club.

David Owen

One of our visions for this next-generation technology is to have embedded devices in the consumer electronics space.

Ali Tabassi

For the children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light.

Bible

I like people to see that classical music is not stuffy. It's something for any generation.

Masakazu Ito

Star Trek: The Next Generation.

James Cromwell

George Bush has declared the war on terrorism to be the cause of his generation. The cause of Canadian sovereignty will be ours.

John Godfrey

(Chelsea) have to attract a new generation of fans to come to Stamford Bridge .

Joe Cole

What we will be interested in is the next generation. Some are simply cashing out.

Bob Spencer

You truly are the greatest generation. ... Some consider that a cliche, but I don't.

Dr. John Bailey

If they go ahead and crack down, Republicans are dead in the Latino community for a generation.

Antonio Gonzalez

We cannot put off the difficult decisions for another day, another generation.

Jodi Rell

This is probably the most profound civil rights movement of our generation, without a doubt.

Jackie Speier

The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance.

Robert R. Coveyou

This is easy to understand and is the next generation of nutrition information.

Cathy Kapica

The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generation.

Pearl S. Buck

We lost an entire generation of coal miners.

Jim Dean

He was the start of a new generation of country stars. (He) really changed the whole persona of country as well, into something hip.

John Altenburgh

There is a whole new generation of CRM solutions on the horizon and we are pleased to say we'll be bringing them to you.

George Shaheen

Our focus is to try to connect with and embrace, relive that generation with us.

Bob Gibson

That's the next generation of race fans. That may be the biggest area of potential immediately in front of us.

Stan Hooley

UL is very excited about our next generation. They've put us on the fast track because it saves lives.

Geoffrey Winters

In the new generation of collaboration, there are four important ingredients.

Jack Gill

The way I would headline it is, the next generation of leaders has arrived.

Ran Coble

A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.

James Freeman Clarke

Now the effort is shifting to deliver a new generation of security products.

Debby Fry Wilson

Multiple platform distribution will be required by this next generation.

Jack Mackenzie

I'm a third-generation born San Franciscan, and I'm appalled that you have not only been elected but re-elected by your misguided ultra liberal so-called citizens.

Jim Donovan

That's the new generation, ... I think we should welcome them all and say, 'Hey, that's good for golf.'

Annika Sorenstam

I don't like it. But I think it's just their generation, too.

Melanie Danelson

It?s sort of ?Stand By Me? for a new generation.

Michael Cuesta

A politician thinks of the next election; a statesman of the next generation.

James Clarke

There's another generation sewn up.

Tom Shippey

The generation that's 20 years old doesn't need the subtext of a sitcom.

Matt Thompson

The needs and opportunities of the older generation will be a lot more important.

Louis Kincannon

So you listen for the next generation.

Ray Wolpow

We saw the Paul Brown era (and) most of the state championships. You see generation after generation come and go ... generation after generation grow up and come of age.

Sally Grant