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“There are a lot of good comics, no doubt, but as far as the quality of the comics goes, I think what you have is a bunch of situational comics - there are black comics that work only black crowds, gay comics that do only gay crowds, and southern comics that only work down South, and so on with Asian, Latino, Indian, midgets, etc. The previous generation's comics were better because they had to make everybody laugh.”

Thinking Black Quality Laughing Doubt Generations Gay South Crowds Bunch Indian No Doubt Etc Southern Asian Latino Midget Previous Generations

Author:Chris Rock

“It's the post-literate generation that is most disturbing to a movie-maker. The explosions and the knifings. People like to go to what's hot and you can't get past a certain gross unless you involve children who go more than once.”

People Children Past Certain Generations Hot Posts Makers Gross Disturbing Explosions

Author:Jack Nicholson

“Hip-hop is the fountain of youth. You just don't grow up if you were there. My son's 20. I'm on the same channel he's on. We wear the same clothes, we feel the same thing. It's a weird, weird generation we're in right now.”

Ifs Feels Grows Growing Up Generations Youth Son Right Now Clothes Hip Hop Hips Hops My Son Fountain Fountain Of Youth

Author:Ice T

“I'm first generation American, and my parents were both from Nigeria. And so I always say that I'm literally an African American. So my last name is Famuyiwa, it's different. And so that was a part of my experience from people not being able to pronounce it to not sort of having sort of a shared, common history with a lot of the kids that I was growing up with because my parents were from Africa.”

People Firsts Different Kids Able Lasts Names Parent Common Growing Up Growing Generations African American Nigeria

Author:Terry Gross

“I think there's always an expectation when you're a first generation, especially a first-generation Nigerian, of sort of being a doctor or a lawyer or an engineer. And so, you know, sort of my initial pursuits into the arts and that I was going to pursue film as a career didn't confuse them, but it was definitely something that they were scared about.”

Thinking Knows Firsts Art Film Careers Generations Expectations Doctors Scared Lawyer Pursuit Pursue Engineers Initials

Author:Terry Gross

“Entrepreneurship is the cornerstone to African development and the key to local value creation in Africa. I am determined to ensure that Africa's next generation of entrepreneurs have the platform they need to turn their entrepreneurial aspirations into sustainable businesses that will drive economic growth and job creation across Africa.”

“Tim Keller's ministry in New York City is leading a generation of seekers and skeptics toward belief in God. I thank God for him.”

Belief Cities Generations New York New York City Thank God Ministry Seekers Skeptic Belief In God

Author:Billy Graham

“Our most pressing obligation is to do all in our power to obtain a revival that will result in a reformed, revitalized, purified church. Each generation of Christians is the seed of the next, and degenerate seed is sure to produce a degenerate harvest.”

Christian Next Church Results Generations Produce Seeds Obligation Harvest Revival Degenerates

Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer

“Upon suffering beyond suffering: the Red Nation shall rise again and it shall be a blessing for a sick world. A world filled with broken promises, selfishness and separations. A world longing for light again. I see a time of Seven Generations when all the colors of mankind will gather under the Sacred Tree of Life and the whole Earth will become one circle again.”

“Orma moved a pile of books off a stool for me but seated himself directly on another stack. This habit of his never ceased to amuse me. Dragons no longer hoarded gold; Comonot's reforms had outlawed it. For Orma and his generation, knowledge was treasure. As dragons through the ages had done, he gathered it and then he sat on it.”

Book Done Age Generations Habit Gold Moved Treasure Reform Sat Dragons Stools

Author:Rachel Hartman

“I feel like our generation is just so obsessed with the idea of perfection and we don't need to be.”

Needs Feels Ideas Generations Perfection Obsessed Our Generation

Author:Connor Franta

“I desire a violent, domineering, fearless, and ferocious upcoming generation. It must be able to bear pain. It must show no signs whatsoever of weakness or tenderness. The free and magnificent predator must once again glint from their eyes.”

Shows Eye Able Pain Desire Generations Bears Weakness Violent Fearless Tenderness Magnificent Predator

Author:Adolf Hitler

“We have a great responsibility. Whatever we make will become the truth, the visual reality that a generation will accept.”

Reality Responsibility Accepting Generations Visuals Great Responsibility

Author:James Cameron

“For educated Americans like Joseph Ellis, Vietnam is a special hang-up. I am an Englishman of exactly the Vietnam generation, a couple of years younger than Ellis; indeed, for reasons too complicated to explain here, I was nearly drafted into the US army in 1965. I know many Americans of my own age and, as much to the point, my own class - journalists, publishers, lawyers. And I don't think I know one who served in Vietnam.”

Thinking Knows Years Reason Age My Own Class Generations Special Couple Army Complicated Lawyer Educated Journalist Vietnam Publishers Englishmen Hang Ups Us Army

Author:Geoffrey Wheatcroft

“I dont believe that anyone can see the Grand Canyon area for themselves and not know that we have to do everything we can to protect it for future generations.”

Knows Believe Generations Protect Areas Future Generation Canyons Grand Canyon Kayaking

Author:Nolan Gould

“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

“I'm a third-generation American, so I like that American-looking, Northwestern style with a flannel or jean shirt.”

Generations Style Thirds Shirts Flannels Northwestern

Author:Cody Horn

“I'm a first-generation American, so I had friends from several cultures while growing up, including Indian and Iranian friends.”

Firsts Culture Growing Up Growing Generations Including Indian Iranian

Author:Michael Steger

“My dad was a doctor and surgeon. He was the fifth generation of his family to become a doctor.”

Generations Dad Doctors My Dad Fifth Surgeons

Author:Ken Kercheval

“Our generation, unfortunately, is stuck to our phones - and, like, Twitter - constantly, which I have no problem with. I'd say we're not describing the children of America or anything like that, but there is something to take from it: It is kind of sad how we can't go thirty minutes without checking our phone.”

Kind Children Problem America Generations Minutes Phones Stuck Thirty No Problem Describing Our Generation

Author:Israel Broussard

“Weve got nine generations of farmers in my family, in Warwickshire. And I do feel connected to being a farmers son. There was a time when I didnt, when I rebelled against it, but theres certainly that sort of work ethic within me.”

Feels Generations Son Ethics My Family Connected Nine Farmers Work Ethic

Author:Joseph Mawle

“Investing in women's lives is an investment in sustainable development, in human rights, in future generations - and consequently in our own long-term national interests.”

Humans Long Life Is Term Interest Rights Generations Development Investment Investing Human Rights Long Term Future Generation Sustainable Development National Interests

Author:Liya Kebede

“Helping others isn't a chore, it is one of the greatest gifts there is. I want to challenge the next generation of women to find a way to give back that inspires and fulfills them and weave it into their daily lives. If the next generation can learn that early on, we have a real chance to change the world.”

Ifs World Way Want Giving Real Helping Next Challenges Chance Generations Inspire Helping Others Changing The World Daily Life Giving Back Next Generation Greatest Gifts Chores

Author:Liya Kebede

“[Nationalism is] a set of beliefs taught to each generation in which the Motherland or the Fatherland is an object of veneration and becomes a burning cause for which one becomes willing to kill the children of other Motherlands or Fatherlands.”

Children Belief Causes Generations Objects Taught Willing Burning Nationalism Veneration Fatherland Motherland

Book:The Zinn Reader: Writings on Disobedience and Democracy

Source: The Zinn Reader: Writings on Disobedience and Democracy

“I have seen incredible bravery from very young guys, the young generation that people write off.”

People Writing Young Guy Generations Bravery Incredibles Young Guys Young Generation

Author:Ross Kemp

“Love is the weapon for this wounded generation.”

Love Is Generations Weapons Wounded

Author:Christofer Drew

“The family trees of Karl and Paula Bonhoeffer are everywhere so laden with figures of accomplishment that one might expect future generations to be burdened by it all. But the welter of wonderfulness that was their heritage seemed to have been a boon, one that buoyed them up so that each child seems not only to have stood on the shoulders of giants but also to have danced on them.”

Children Has Beens Seems Might Generations Tree Figures Shoulders Accomplishment Giants Heritage Future Generation Boon Bonhoeffer

Book:Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy

Source: Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy

“As we get older it is our short term memory that fades rather than our long term memory. Perhaps we have evolved like this so that we are able to tell the younger generation about the stories and experiences that have formed us which may be important to subsequent generations if they are to thrive.I worry though, about what might happen to our minds if most of the stories we hear are about greed, war, and atrocity”

Ifs Mind May Long Important War Stories Might Happens Able Term Memories Worry Generations Greed Long Term Thrive Fades Short Term Atrocities Younger Generation Short Term Memory

Book:How to Stay Sane

Source: How to Stay Sane

“I have always stressed to my girls that outer beauty fades but inner beauty lasts forever. Simple things like smiling and looking people in the eye could change someone's bad day into a good one. My mom always said that beauty is as beauty does, and I'm sure it will pass along to all the future generations of our family.”

People Doe Said Eye Lasts Girl Simple Forever Generations Mom My Mom Our Family Fades Inner Beauty Future Generation Bad Day Stressed Simple Things My Girl Beauty Fades Outer Beauty

Author:Tina Knowles

“Millennials aren't looking for a hipper Christianity. We're looking for a truer Christianity, a more authentic Christianity. Like every generation before ours and every generation after, we're looking for Jesus-the same Jesus who can be found in the strange places he's always been found: in bread, in wine, in baptism, in the Word, in suffering, in community, and among the least of these.”

Suffering Found Jesus Community Christianity Generations Strange Wine Bread Baptism Millennials Strange Places Authentic Christianity

Book:Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church

Source: Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church

“I loved Ghana Must Go by Taiye Selasi. Its about a first-generation African family living in America that has to return home to Nigeria when their estranged father passes away.”

Firsts Home America Father Generations Return Passing Away Nigeria Ghana

Author:Uzo Aduba

“With our parents we bury our past, with our children our future.”

Children Past Parent Generations Our Children Our Future Our Past Future Generation

Author:Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

“The prophet and the quack are alike admired for a generation, and admired for the wrong reasons.”

Reason Generations Prophet Wrong Reasons Quacks

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“My own field of paleontology has strongly challenged the Darwinian premise that life's major transformations can be explained by adding up, through the immensity of geological time, the successive tiny changes produced generation after generation by natural selection.”

Natural My Own Generations Fields Majors Transformation Tiny Selection Premises Natural Selection Immensity Paleontology Geological Time

Author:Stephen Jay Gould

“In literary history, generation follows generation in a rage.”

Literature Generations Rage

Author:Annie Dillard

“The knowledge of one generation is the ignorance of the next.”

Next Generations Ignorance

Book:A few days in Athens: being the translation of a Greek manuscript discovered in Herculaneum

Source: A few days in Athens: being the translation of a Greek manuscript discovered in Herculaneum

“I do not believe in a child world. It is a fantasy world. I believe the child should be taught from the very first that the whole world is his world, that adult and child share one world, that all generations are needed.”

World Should Firsts Believe Children Whole I Believe Fantasy Generations Share Taught Needed Adults Whole World Fantasy Worlds

Author:Pearl S. Buck

“Sooner or later the young always betrayed the old.”

Young Generations Sooner Or Later Betrayed

Book:God's Men: A Novel

Source: God's Men: A Novel

“I am not given to superstition, yet there are certain places in old Asian countries where human beings have been born and have lived and died for so many generations that the very earth is saturated with their flesh and the air seems crowded with their continuing presence.”

Humans Has Beens Country Seems Earth Certain Given Born Human Beings Generations Air Land Died Flesh Superstitions Continuing Asian Crowded Saturated Asian Countries

Book:My Several Worlds

Source: My Several Worlds

“A man may be made in one generation, but a lady never!”

Men May Made Generations

Author:Kate Langley Bosher

“As long as there are people in education making excuses for failure, cursing future generations with a culture of low expectations, denying children access to the best that has been thought and written, because Nemo and the Mister Men are more relevant, the battle needs to be joined.”

People Men Needs Children Long Has Beens Culture Written Generations Battle Lows Expectations Excuse Access Relevant Future Generation Cursing Making Excuses Low Expectations Nemo

Author:Michael Gove

“There's one thing about freedom ... each generation of people begins by thinking they've got it for the first time in history, and ends by being sure the generation younger than themselves have too much of it. It can't really always have been increasing at the rate people suppose, or there would be more of it by now.”

People Thinking Firsts Has Beens Ends Would Be Freedom Too Much Generations One Thing First Time Rate

Author:Rose Macaulay

“It was served of the Jesuits, that they constantly inculcated a thorough contempt of worldly things in their doctrines, but eagerly grasped at them in their lives. They were wise in their generation; for they cried down worldly things because they wanted to obtain them, and cried up spiritual things, because they wanted to dispose of them.”

Wanted Spiritual Wise Generations Doctrine Contempt Cried Worldly Thorough Jesuit Worldly Things

Author:Charles Caleb Colton

“it may be said that children are but newly-issued editions of old compositions, re-bound and corrected, with fresh introductions, modern print and headpieces, but the text is that of former editions handed down from generation to generation.”

May Children Said Generations Modern Bounds Former Print Composition Introduction

Author:Anna Kingsford

“For the past several generations we've forgotten what the psychologists call our archaic understanding, a willingness to know things in their deepest, most mythic sense. We're all born with archaic understanding, and I'd guess that the loss of it goes directly along with the loss of ourselves as creators.”

Knows Past Understanding Born Loss Generations Forgotten Creator Willingness Psychologist

Book:Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art

Source: Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art

“Enthusiasm begets enthusiasm, eloquence produces conviction for the moment; but it is only by truth to Nature and the everlasting institutions of mankind that those abiding influences are won that enlarge from generation to generation.”

Moments Generations Influence Mankind Produce Institutions Conviction Enthusiasm Everlasting Abiding Eloquence Begets

Author:James Russell Lowell

“If you would be a leader of men, you must lead your own generation, not the next.”

Ifs Men Would Be Next Leader Generations

Book:Woodrow Wilson: the essential political writings

Source: Woodrow Wilson: the essential political writings

“This glorious union shall not perish! Precious legacy of our fathers, it shall go down honored and cherished to our children. Generations unborn shall enjoy its privileges as we have done; and if we leave them poor in all besides, we will transmit to them the boundless wealth of its blessings!”

Ifs Children Done Father Enjoy Wealth Poor Generations Blessing Our Children Unions Privilege Legacy Glorious Honored Our Father Boundless Unborn Transmit

Author:Edward Everett

“I don't need a successor, only willing hands to accept the torch for a new generation.”

Needs Hands Accepting Generations Willing Torches New Generation Successors

Author:Billy Graham

“We are the generation that came of age in an ageless society.”

Age Generations Ageless

Author:Lois Wyse

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