Best generations & born Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Niggy Tardust' is the voice of a generation, a generation that does not define itself simply by what it's born into.”

“My mother is Greek and my father is Bulgarian. I am a first-generation American and native Los Angeleno. I was born and raised in Hollywood.”

Firsts Mother Father Born Generations Hollywood Raised Greek Native Los Angeles Born And Raised Bulgarians

Author:Rita Wilson

“It would be hard to imagine Heaven without children. It wouldn't be Heaven! It would be a pretty boring place without children. What are we going to do, all get to be old people and then stagnate and that's the end of it? Once all those that are already born grow up, the place would really lack life without new generations of children! If there were no children, it would be a dead society.”

People Ifs Children Ends Hard Would Be Heaven Grows Born Growing Up Imagine Generations Boring Heavenly Old People New Generation

Author:David Berg

“Thou wast not born for death, immortal bird! No hungry generations tread thee down; The voice I hear this passing night was heard In ancient days by emperor and clown.”

Night Voice Born Generations Heard Bird Ancient Hungry Passing Passings Thee Immortal Clown Emperor Nightingales Forlorn

Author:John Keats

“Perhaps I was born too early. I was more the painter of your generation than of mine.”

Born Generations Mines Painter

Author:Paul Cezanne

“Organic life beneath the shoreless waves Was born and rais’d in Ocean’s pearly caves First forms minute, unseen by spheric glass, Move on the mud, or pierce the watery mass; These, as successive generations bloom, New powers acquire, and larger limbs assume; Whence countless groups of vegetation spring, And breathing realms of fin, and feet and wing.”

Firsts Moving Form Born Generations Groups Feet Minutes Ocean Mass Spring Wings Assuming Glasses Wave Breathing Realms Acquire Unseen Mud Caves Limbs Pierce Vegetation Fins Organic Life

Author:Erasmus Darwin

“Nietzsche inveighs against every sort of historical optimism; but he energetically repudiates the ordinary pessimism, which is the result of degenerate or enfeebled instincts of decadence. He preaches with youthful enthusiasm the triumph of a tragic culture, introduced by an intrepid rising generation, in which the spirit of ancient Greece might be born again. He rejects the pessimism of Schopenhauer, for he already abhors all renunciation; but he seeks a pessimism of healthiness, one derived from strength, from exuberant power, and he believes he has found it in the Greeks.”

“For more than two generations, my family had never achieved their ambitions. Their talents were unappreciated and unused. They deserved better. They hadn't done anything wrong; they just had some bad breaks. Why was I succeeding? Why was I living my dreams? I wasn't more deserving than they were. I wasn't smarter or a better person. What was the difference between us that allowed me to attain so much in a short time? America. America was the difference. I had been born a citizen of the greatest nation in all of human history.”

Source: An American Son: A Memoir

“It is doubtful if even experience of riches and success is as intense among those who have experienced nothing else as among those who have also experienced poverty and failure. There is little romance in wealth to those who have been born wealthy and whose families have been wealthy for generations.”

Ifs Littles Has Beens Romance Born Wealth Poverty Generations Riches Intense Wealthy Doubtful

Author:Robert Wilson Lynd

“We are all a complete mixture;yet at the same time,we are all related.Each gene can trace its own journey to a different common ancestor.This is a quite extraordinary legacy that we all have inherited from the people who lived before us.Our genes did not just appear when we were born.They have been carried to us by millions of individual lives over thousands of generations.”

People Has Beens Different Individual Born Common Millions Generations Journey Extraordinary Legacy Related Ancestor Genes Mixtures Individual Life

Author:Bryan Sykes

“Molecules are moving. Universes are colliding. Generations are being born and dying simultaneously, throughout eternity. As one of our great American poets, Walt Whitman, once said: "I contain multitudes."”

Said Moving Universe Born Generations Dying Poet Buddhism Eternity Multitudes Molecules Great American Walt

Author:Frederick Lenz

“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

“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

“I was raised the Chinese way: I was taught to desire nothing, to swallow other people's misery, to eat my own bitterness. And even though I taught my daughter the opposite, still she came out the same way! Maybe it is because she was born to me and she was born a girl. And I was born to my mother and I was born a girl. All of us are like stairs, one step after another, going up and down, but all going the same way.”

People Way Stills Mother Desire Girl Born My Own Steps Generations Taught Daughter Opposites Misery Raised Chinese My Daughter Bitterness Up And Down Stairs

Author:Amy Tan

“There are other great writers who are not read properly in their own day for the reason, perhaps, that their readers are not yet born. What they have to say to their own generation is said so at cross-purposes and with such apparent irrelevance that it is not understood. They are, as it were, giants who tower above their own age to cast their shadows across the next.”

Said Reason Age Purpose Next Born Generations Reader Understood Shadow Crosses Casts Giants Towers Great Writers Irrelevance

Author:Caroline Gordon

“In fact, every child on earth born after June 23, 1988 belongs to what I call Generation Hot. This generation includes some two billion young people, all of whom have grown up under global warming and are fated to spend the rest of their lives confronting its mounting impacts.”

People Children Two Facts Earth Young Born Generations Hot Impact Climate Change Billions Global Warming June Confronting This Generation

Author:Mark Hertsgaard

“I have no patience with anyone born after World War II. You have to explain everything to these people.”

People World War Humor Born Generations War Of The Worlds World War Ii World War I No Patience I Have No Patience

Author:Selma Diamond

“Among Negroes of my generation there was not only little direct acquaintance or consciously inherited knowledge of Africa, but much distaste and recoil because of what the white world taught them about the Dark Continent. There arose resentment that a group like ours, born and bred in the United States for centuries, should be regarded as Africans at all. They were, as most of them began gradually to assert, Americans. My father's father was particularly bitter about this. He would not accept an invitation to a 'Negro' picnic. He would not segregate himself in any way.”

“Don't Look Down” is her official debut as Skylar Grey, the singer, born Holly Brook Hafermann and raised in Mazomanie, Wis., has been making albums since she was a tween. Grey and her mother sang as a folk duo under the name Generations; they released three indie discs. “I learned a lot about professionalism, how the show must go on even though I feel like [expletive] sometimes,” Grey remembers. “I have a lot of experience in the studio, performing onstage, talking to an audience. I learned most of that stuff when I was performing with my mom.”

“We have not chosen this time. We cannot help it if we are born as men of the early winter of full Civilization, instead of on the golden summit of a ripe Culture, in a Phidias or a Mozart time. Everything depends on our seeing our own position, our destiny, clearly, on our realizing that though we may lie to ourselves about it, we cannot evade it. He who does not acknowledge this in his heart, ceases to be counted among the men of his generation, and remains either a simpleton, a charlatan, or a pedant.”

Source: Form and actuality

“No more generations of our youth, here and all around the world, whose life is over, whose fate has been sealed, who have been condemned to an early death or a life of misery and brutality, whom the system has destined for oppression and oblivion even before they are born. I say no more of that.”

World Has Beens Life Is Born Fate Generations Youth Misery Oppression Around The World Destined Oblivion Brutality Early Death

Author:Bob Avakian

“I love creating stories, dreaming up characters and breathing life into them. From several generations of Irish storytellers, I think that's what I was born to do.”

Thinking Character Stories Dream Born Generations Creating Breathing Storyteller Breathing Life Creating Stories

Author:Linda Conrad

“But look, I was born in 1956, the peak year for births in US history. I think I'm very representative of many of the thought processes my generation have been through and, by and large, people of my age have had their imprint planted on the consciousness of western society for a long time.”

“The year I was born, 1956, was the peak year for babies being born, and there are more people essentially our age than anybody else. We could crush these new generations if we decided too.”

People Ifs Years Age Born Generations Baby Decided Crush Birthday New Generation 60th Birthday Babies Being Born

Author:Tom Hanks

“Our country was born out of a desire to be free. And every day since, it's been protected by our men and women in uniform - people who believed so deeply in America, they were willing to give their lives for it.”

“I promise you: No American whose great-grandfather was born here is watching soccer. One can only hope that, in addition to learning English, these new Americans will drop their soccer fetish with time.”

Born Community Generations Promise Ideology Soccer Grandfather Free Speech I Promise Fetish Great Grandfather Learning English

Author:Ann Coulter

“A range of studies shows there is no evidence immigrants commit more crime than native-born Americans. In fact, first generation immigrants are predisposed to lower crime rates than native-born Americans. The two cities in this country most impacted by undocumented immigrants, you would think of the New York City with over 500,000 and Los Angeles, with a similar amount. Both those cities are among the safest in the free world.”

“There are still generations of people, older people, who were born and bred and marinated in it, in that prejudice and racism, and they just have to die.”

People Stills Dies Born Generations Racism Prejudice Older People

Author:Oprah Winfrey

“Imitation both unconscious and conscious is par excellence the educational method of the family. It is plain that a considerable part of the adaptation of living beings to their environment, i.e., of beings that are born plastic, is passed on from generation to generation through imitation. Were this not so, much if not all of the road traversed by one generation would have to be travelled by the next generation from the very beginning and without short-cuts. Consequently there would be little chance for the novel adaptation, the propitious individual variation, that constitutes progress.”

“Is it not manifest that our academic institutions should have a wider scope; that they should not be timid and keep the ruts of the last generation, but that wise men thinking for themselves and heartily seeking the good of mankind, and counting the cost of innovation, should dare to arouse the young to a just and heroic life; that the moral nature should be addressed in the school-room, and children should be treated as the high-born candidates of truth and virtue?”

Source: The Selected Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The Democratic party is one that I've always observed. I have struggled greatly in life from the day I was born and I am honored to be apart of something that focuses on working class citizens and molds them into a proud specimen. Mr. Roosevelt and Mr. Kennedy have done so much in that regard for the two generations they've won over during their career course.”

Two Done Courses Born Party Class Careers Generations Proud Citizens Regard Democratic Working Class Honored Democratic Party Mold

Author:Joan Crawford

“The generation now below me were born into a world where if you're a kid with raw talent now, you can roll in and land a lead in a Scorsese film. You don't have to have prove yourself by working up the ranks, doing the classics, and getting the canon under your belt in the way the great Sirs and Dames of mom and dad's generation - the [Ben] Kingsleys and [Helen] Mirrens and [Anthony] Hopkinses and people of that ilk.”

People Ifs World Way Kids Film Born Generations Land Talent Mom Dad Prove Belts Mom And Dad Lead In Canon Helen Dames Scorsese Proving Yourself Raw Talent

Author:Benedict Cumberbatch

“If you start thinking about the kids being born now, for them the computer is ancient history. So one imagines that when children think of it as the only place to be, because there isn't anywhere else, then the geniuses of those generations will find their way into doing something that is impressive and as good as a Shakespeare or a Cervantes. But nowadays, we can't see that. We're not close enough to it yet.”

Ifs Thinking Way Children Enough Kids Born Imagine Generations Genius Computer Ancient Imagine That Impressive Ancient History

Author:Robert Coover

“If I were born in other generation, I would be a singer rapper, dancing is also...I was famous as a good dancer. My dancing skill was just hided by other members better skill.”

Ifs Would Be Born Generations Skills Members Dancing Singers Dancer Rapper

Author:Yesung

“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.”

Years Humans Made Self Together Lasts Lying Born Four Generations Middle Creation Billions Ties Complexity Cosmos Thread Arcs Smack Trajectory Culmination Techno Bios

Author:Kevin Kelly

“As Mayor, I have a responsibility to ensure city government is making life better for all Angelenos, especially those whose past hard work laid the foundation for the city we enjoy today. Whether someone is born here, or comes here for college, career, or retirement, I want L.A. to be a place that welcomes all generations.”

Want Hard Government Today Past Enjoy Born Cities Responsibility Careers Generations College Hard Work Foundation Retirement Mayors Enjoy Today City Government

Author:Eric Garcetti

“If Tao Lin had been born to Gary Shteyngart's parents and spent his early twenties slaving for pageviews at NewYorker.com, he would have written something like this, the Bright Lights, Big City of the click-here-now generation.”

Ifs Bigs Light Parent Born Cities Written Generations Twenties Tao Clicks Gary Big Cities Bright Lights

Author:Gideon Lewis-Kraus

“If you think that what you're doing is not all that important in the larger scheme of things and that you're just an insignificant creature in the whole wide world, which is full of six billion people, and that people are born and die every day and it makes no difference to future generations what you write, and that writing and reading are increasingly irrelevant activities, you'd probably never get out of bed.”

“The past is never dead. It's not even past. All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born, webs of heredity and environment, of desire and consequence, of history and eternity. Haunted by wrong turns and roads not taken, we pursue images perceived as new but whose providence dates to the dim dramas of childhood, which are themselves but ripples of consequence echoing down the generations. The quotidian demands of life distract from this resonance of images and events, but some of us feel it always.”

“An AIDS-free generation would mean that virtually no child is born with HIV; that, as those children grow up, their risk of becoming infected is far lower than it is today; and that those who become infected can access treatment to help prevent them from developing AIDS and from passing the virus on to others.”

Mean Children Helping Today Grows Born Growing Up Risk Generations Becoming Aids Access Passing Passings Developing Treatment Viruses Hiv

Author:Anthony S. Fauci

“The biggest problem for my generation is that people who were born years before us have no concept of us at all. There's a massive gap. I don't know why, but we were really like orphans. Those people competed against us, they hated us and fought for things, and yet they had no interest in our work.”

People Knows Years Problem Interest Born Generations Concepts Hated Massive Gaps My Generation Orphan

Author:Liam Gillick

“No one born in the 1950s took much interest in my generation, and all we've done is try to fix it by talking to the people who came after us. I don't hang out with anyone who is 10 years older than I am, but I hang out with a lot of people who are 10 years younger.”

People Trying Years Done Interest Born Talking Generations Hanging Out My Generation

Author:Liam Gillick

“Never forget that we were enslaved in this country longer than we have been free. Never forget that for 250 years black people were born into chains-whole generations followed by more generations who knew nothing but chains.”

People Years Has Beens Country Whole Black Born Forget Generations Chains Never Forget Black People

Book:Between the World and Me

Source: Between the World and Me

“I am the first male member of my family for about three generations who can have reasonable confidence in expecting that I will leave this earth with more or less the same number of fingers, hands, legs, toes and eyes as I had when I was born.”

Firsts Hands Eye Earth Death Three Born Numbers Generations Members My Family Fingers Males Legs Reasonable Expecting Toes Three Generations

Author:Neil Kinnock

“I'm a poet born in the era of Andy Warhol and a generation that wanted to be famous.”

Wanted Born Generations Poet Eras Warhol

Author:Eileen Myles

“I've seen definitive change in the mountains. I have concerns for the future generation. We inherit the earth from the people in front of us, and then we pass it on to the next generation. I don't think we've done a great job with our responsibility to leave the earth a better place than what we were born into.”

People Thinking Done Earth Jobs Next Born Responsibility Generations Fronts Mountain Concern Better Place Next Generation Future Generation Great Job

Author:Jeremy Jones

“I've been fortunate enough to travel to 58 different countries and I thank God everyday that I was born in this country. The most exceptional country that the world has ever known. And I want to make sure that we preserve that exceptionalism for the next generation.”

World Want Different Country Enough Next Born Known Generations Everyday Preserves Fortunate Thank God Exceptional Next Generation Different Countries Exceptionalism

Author:Benjamin Carson

“We still have our people working in the cane fields in the Dominican Republic. People are still repatriated all the time from the Dominican Republic to Haiti. Some tell of being taken off buses because they looked Haitian, and their families have been in the Dominican Republic for generations. Haitian children born in the Dominican Republic still can't go to school and are forced to work in the sugarcane fields.”

People Children Has Beens Stills School Born Taken Generations Fields Republic Bus Haiti Haitian Dominican Republic

Author:Edwidge Danticat

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