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“I have seen lonely people of advancing age, yet as constant as angels, keeping faith to those they loved who fell in wars that current generations, not having known them, cannot even forget. The sight of them moving hesitantly among the tablets and crosses is enough to break your heart.”

“I did go to Vietnam in 2000 as a kind of pilgrimage and to feel my generation was very much a part of this. I felt responsible but also connected and empathetic. It was a very complicated relationship we had, whichever side you were on. The shock of being there was very few people my own age - I was primarily in the North in the streets of Hanoi. A whole generation was essentially decimated.”

“The biggest untapped source of energy today is our youth. I am from an age of consumerism, but my two daughters are young enough to change the way their generation thinks.”

Thinking Way Two Enough Age Today Young Energy Generations Youth Source Daughter Consumerism Two Daughters

Author:Mike Horn

“I am the age of the some of the grandparents that are bringing their young grandchildren to hear the music. I have been fortunate enough to see multiple generations of families come see my shows.”

Has Beens Enough Shows Age Young Generations Fortunate Multiple Grandparent Grandchildren

Author:Sam Bush

“It is mere childishness to expect men to believe as their fathers did; that is, if they have any minds of their own. The world is a whole generation older and wiser than when the father was of his son's age.”

Ifs Men World Mind Believe Whole Age Father Progress Generations Son Evolution Mere Wiser Childishness

Author:Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

“One of my favorite phobias is that girls, especially those whose tastes aren't routine, often don't get a fair break... It has come down through the generations, an inheritance of age-old customs, which produced the corollary that women are bred to timidity.”

Age Girl Break Generations Taste Fairs My Favorite Customs Routine Inheritance That Girl Timidity Phobia

Book:Last flight

Source: Last flight

“Jazz celebrates older generations and not just the youth movement. When you "sell" only to people of a certain age, you get cut off from the main body of experience. The power of couple dancing and courtship, it's elegant, and you wouldn't realize America was once a nation of dancers and singers today. People of all races could dance and sing.”

People Body Age Today America Certain Nations Realizing Race Cutting Generations Movement Youth Couple Sells Dancing Jazz Singers Celebrate Dancer Elegant Courtship Older Generation

Author:Wynton Marsalis

“Under the Assads, Kurds were forbidden from learning their own language at school, or even from speaking it in the military. The result is a generation of Syrian Kurds, many now in late middle age, who cant write their own language.”

Writing Age School Language Results Generations Middle Military Late Forbidden Cant Middle Ages Kurds

Author:Luke Harding

“The sport is definitely growing, and has become much more competitive. When I started, you were either a former swimmer or runner who took up triathlons. Now, you have a generation of triathletes coming up that started competing at a young age - these are the people that will change the game.”

People Age Young Games Sports Growing Generations Former Runners Competing Young Age Swimmer Triathlon

Author:Timothy O'Donnell

“But an opinion that it is possible for the present generation to seize and use the property of future generations has produced to both parties concerned, effects of the same complexion with the usual fruits of national errour. The present age is cajoled to tax and enslave itself, by the errour of believing that it taxes and enslaves future ages to enrich itself.”

Believe Use Age Party Opinion Generations Effects Taxes Concerned Property Fruit Usual Future Generation Complexion

Author:John Taylor of Caroline

“In every age and every generation, men have envisioned a promised land. Some may have envisioned it with the wrong ideology, with the wrong philosophical presupposition. But men in every generation thought in terms of some promised land.”

Men May Age Term Generations Land Philosophical Ideology Promised Land

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Albert [Brooks] was rare in that he could make adults laugh. He was a prodigy. At age 15 and 16, he could make my dad laugh uncontrollably. And whenever we had parties, some of the funniest people of my generation - whether it was Billy Crystal or Robin Williams or John Belushi - would be doing shtick.”

People Would Be Age Party Laughing Generations Dad Adults My Dad Crystals My Generation Brooks Robins Prodigies

Author:Rob Reiner

“After generations of living under medical tutelage, which provides us with protection (albeit illusory) against "dangerous drugs", we have failed to cultivate the self-reliance and self-discipline we must possess as competent adults surrounded by the fruits of our pharmacological-technological age.”

Self Age Generations Dangerous Discipline Drug Adults Fruit Protection Medical Self Discipline Technological Self Reliance Reliance Competent Illusory Dangerous Drugs Tutelage

Book:Our Right to Drugs: The Case for a Free Market

Source: Our Right to Drugs: The Case for a Free Market

“Jonny Lang has the power to move the music into the next millennium by reaching the ears of a new generation. The great musicians have the power to break all of the 'isms'-race, age, sex, et cetera. Jonny Lang is one of those musicians.”

Age Moving Next Sex Race Break Generations Musician Ears Reaching Great Music New Generation Millennium Isms Great Musician

Author:Luther Allison

“All words have the "taste" of a profession, a genre, a tendency, a party, a particular work, a particular person, a generation, an age group, the day and hour. Each word tastes of the context and contexts in which it has lived its socially charged life.”

Persons Age Hours Party Generations Groups Particular Taste Profession Tendencies Genre

Author:Mikhail Bakhtin

“Every age and generation must be as free to act for itself.”

Age Generations

Book:Rights of Man

Source: Rights of Man