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“I knew I could never match my father as a violinist, and there were already four generations of outstanding cellists in the family.”

Father Four Generations Outstanding Violinist Cellists Four Generations

Author:Leonard Slatkin

“Eighteen might look at thirty-four through a rising mist of adolescence, but twenty-two would see thirty-eight with discerning clarity.”

Looks Two Might Four Generations Twenties Eight Clarity Thirty Rising Adolescence Mist Eighteen Discerning Twenty Two Thirty Eight Four Generations

Book:The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works

Source: The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works

“America was built by immigrants. Almost nobody that I know is any more than three generations, maybe four generations, American.”

Knows America Three Four Generations Built Immigrants Three Generations Four Generations

Author:Michael Bloomberg

“the miserable specimens who call themselves ' liberals ' are really conservatives: they're desperately even hysterically defending a welfare-warfare kleptocracy that is now at least four generations old, against growing numbers of us (unlike Republicans , who seem to become more ignorant with every passing year) who have actually managed to learn something from history and are struggling to dismantle said kleptocracy.”

Years Said Seems Numbers Struggle Four Growing Generations Republican Passing Ignorant Passings Miserable Welfare Warfare Four Generations

Author:L. Neil Smith

“One act of violence takes four generations to heal.”

Four Violence Generations Heal Acts Of Violence Four Generations

Book:My Life on the Road

Source: My Life on the Road

“I think it's going to take three or four generations of gay people being able to get married before it starts feeling less like we're going through these motions, that we're aping a heterosexual institution.”

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Author:Dan Savage

“Texas is my mind's country, that place I most want to understand and record and preserve. Four generations of my people sleep in its soil; I have children there, and a grandson; the dead past and the living future tie me to it.”

People Want Mind Children Country Past Sleep Records Four Generations Preserves Ties Soil Texas Grandson Four Generations

Book:Warning, Writer at Work: The Best Collectibles of Larry L. King

Source: Warning, Writer at Work: The Best Collectibles of Larry L. King

“Darwin found out that when you took horses up to the high country in the Middle East, they would then grow long hair after a season or two. But when you took them - these long-haired horses - back into the low, hot country, they wouldn't get rid of the long hair, just in case, for about four generations.”

Long Two Country Found Grows Cases Four Generations Middle Hair Lows Seasons Horse Hot East Middle East Long Hair Four Generations

Author:L. Ron Hubbard

“Television is the Antichrist, and I can assure you after only three or four generations, people will no longer even know how to fart on their own and humans will return to medieval savagery and to the general state of imbecility that slugs overcame back in the Pleistocene era. Our world will not die as a result of the bomb...it will die of laughter, of banality, of making a joke of everything and a lousy joke at that.”

“The third guy was different. He was what you got when you ate squirrels for four generations. Smarter than a rat and tougher than a goat, and jumpier than either one.”

Different Guy Four Generations Thirds Smarter Rats Goats Squirrels Four Generations

Author:Lee Child

“Silver gray hair Neatly combed in place There were four generations Of love on her face She was so wise No surprise passed her eyes She's seen it all”

Eye Faces Wise Four Generations Hair Surprise Silver Gray Her Eyes Grandma Gray Hair Four Generations

Author:Dianne Reeves

“It takes four generations to recover from every act of violence.”

Four Violence Generations Nonviolence Acts Of Violence Four Generations

Author:Rebecca Adamson

“I grew up in Minnesota. Four generations of my father's people are buried there.”

People Father Four Generations Grew Grew Up Buried Minnesota Four Generations

Author:Peter Agre