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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

“The way I look at the top five, (Rod) Laver, (Roger) Federer, myself, Borg and (Ivan) Lendl. I think those five guys dominated their generations better than anyone. Maybe Roger will dominate better than any one of the other four. Maybe I put Andre (Agassi) as kind of six through 10 with, you know, (John) McEnroe and (Jimmy) Connors, kind of those guys. That's kind of how I see it.”

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Author:Pete Sampras

“A distant cousin sent me some genealogy report on my father's side, and it's sort of what I suspected. Coal miners for generations... four or maybe five generations.”

Father Sides Five Four Generations Reports Coal Cousin Miners Genealogy Coal Miners

Author:Gina McKee

“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

“Maybe there are three or four really good poets in a generation.”

Three Four Generations Poet

Author:Kenneth Koch

“Someone is an ignoramus who would say that, 'Oh, we had three hurricanes this year. This proves that somehow the climate is warming.' The earth is 4.5 billion years old, and you're going to say that we had four hurricanes and so it proves a theory?”

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Author:Rand Paul

“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

“I'm from the generation that's always been recording, from the very beginning. I learned to play the guitar on the four-track. I started listening to music at a time when people were doing recording at home, when the discussion about songwriting correlated to the discussion about producing and engineering. I think that's a description of my generation.”

People Thinking Play Home Four Generations Listening Guitar Track Discussion Description Songwriting Engineering Listening To Music My Generation

Author:Sufjan Stevens

“A single thread of self generation ties the cosmos, the bios, and the technos together into one creation. Humans are not the culmination of this trajectory but an intermediary, smack in the middle between the born and the made... The arc of complexity and open-ended creation in the last four billion years is nothing compared to what lies ahead.”

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Author:Kevin Kelly

“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.”

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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.”

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Author:L. Ron Hubbard