“Economic growth is necessary to keep the promise - enormously important to individual Americans - that each generation will have the opportunity to become more prosperous than the preceding one, the popular term for which is 'the American dream.” ImportantDreamOpportunityIndividualGrowthTermGenerationsEconomicPromiseAmerican DreamProsperousEconomic Growth Author:Michael Mandelbaum
“Unless we make education a priority, an entire generation of Americans could miss out on the American dream.” DreamGenerationsMissingPrioritiesAmerican Dream Author:Blanche Lincoln
“The next generation of innovators, who need neutrality the most, are not at the bargaining table. They're hard at work in their labs or classrooms, dreaming of the next big thing, and hoping that the Internet is as open to them as it was to the founders of Google.” NeedsHardDreamBigsNextGenerationsInternetTablesClassroomFoundersGoogleBig ThingsNext GenerationLabsInnovatorsNeutralityBargaining Author:Edward Felten
“In the past, heartland whites with some kind of dream or desire left their towns for cities to become citified. They wanted to get away from religion, from their families, they wanted to come out, make art, have sex, have experiences. But this new crew was something we had never seen before. They were the first generation of suburban Americans. They came, not to be citified, but rather to change cities into places they could recognize and dominate.” FirstsKindArtDreamWantedPastDesireLeftSexCitiesGenerationsTownsGet AwayCrew Author:Sarah Schulman
“Horror hostess, bondage goddess, Charles Addams cartoon comes to life, Vampire was every first-generation fanboy's wet dream. Scott Poole takes us on an unforgettable ride through the overlapping underworlds of B&D magazines, Hollywood noir, and early political liberation movements that inspired actress Maila Nurmi to challenge a postwar culture bent on stifling women's choices, bodies, and desires. This book is a subversive masterpiece.” FirstsBookDreamBodyPoliticalDesireChoicesCultureChallengesGenerationsMovementHorrorHollywoodInspiredActressesMagazinesVampireLiberationGoddessWetBentCartoonMasterpieceBondageNoirSubversiveUnderworldUnforgettableStiflingOverlappingHostessesWet Dreams Author:Sheri Holman
“Made with Pencils is grounded in the creativity of a few, propelled by the financial support of many, and most importantly, it's empowering generations to come. A simple idea, a heartfelt desire, and a world of possibility. A pencil, a promise, and a dream.” WorldMadeIdeasDreamDesireSimpleCreativitySupportGenerationsPossibilityPromiseFinancialEmpoweringGroundedPencilsHeartfeltSimple IdeasFinancial Support Author:Adam Braun
“A breath of our inspiration Is the life of each generation; A wondrous thing of our dreaming Unearthly, impossible seeming — The soldier, the king, and the peasant Are working together in one, Till our dream shall become their present, And their work in the world be done.” WorldDoneDreamInspirationTogetherImpossibleGenerationsKingsBreathsSoldierWorking TogetherOur DreamsPeasantsSeemingWondrous Author:Arthur O'Shaughnessy
“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.” HumansPersonsTwoDoneDreamAmericaNationsBornDifferencesBreakGenerationsTalentCitizensSucceedAmbitionMy FamilySmarterHuman HistoryDeservingBetter PersonShort Time Book:An American Son: A Memoir Source: An American Son: A Memoir
“The Web is cool, but the library is magic. Where else can the spirit of generations of writers stir your soul? So many writers talk about libraries setting them on their magical paths, it's almost a groaner. But we know it's true. Wander through the stacks and you can feel the dreams, the unique worlds bubbling within each volume. The magic enters you as if by osmosis. On the Web, you may feel clever, lucky and driven to download--but rarely inspired to dream and to write.” IfsKnowsWorldFeelsWritingMaySoulDreamSpiritPathGenerationsMagicLuckyUniqueInspiredLibraryDrivenCleverSettingSettingsWanderYour SoulVolumeDownloadsOsmosis Author:Arthur Plotnik
“All children need a laptop. Not a computer, but a human laptop. Moms, Dads, Grannies and Grandpas, Aunts, Uncles - someone to hold them, read to them, teach them. Loved ones who will embrace them and pass on the experience, rituals and knowledge of a hundred previous generations. Loved ones who will pass to the next generation their expectations of them, their hopes, and their dreams.” LoveNeedsHumansChildrenDreamNextTeachGenerationsMomDadComputerExpectationsHundredEmbraceRitualLoved OnesUnclesAuntNext GenerationLaptopsGrandpaGrannyPrevious GenerationsMom Dad Author:Colin Powell
“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.” ThinkingCharacterStoriesDreamBornGenerationsCreatingBreathingStorytellerBreathing LifeCreating Stories Author:Linda Conrad
“...It's all sort of dreams and it's all illusion. It's theater; it's not real. We're making up stories, you know, and people tend to run into you and believe you are your characters. And I suppose the funny thing is the longer you go, you do become sort of some version of [your characters]. You both diverge from them - you know - you live, but you also permanently inhabit that geography and that mental space - and so you do morph a little bit. We do become what we imagine.” PeopleKnowsBelieveLittlesRealCharacterStoriesWisdomDreamRealityRunningBitsCommunitySpaceHistoryImagineGenerationsHuman NatureLittle BitIllusionTheaterIndividualityVersionsIdeologyGeographyFunny ThingsMaking Up Author:Bruce Springsteen
“I do not mean to imply that the good old days were perfect. But the institutions and structure--the web--of society needed reform,not demolition. To have cut the institutional and community strands without replacing them with new ones proved to be a form of abuse to one generation and to the next. For so many Americans, the tragedy was not in dreaming that life could be better; the tragedy was that the dreaming ended.” MeanDreamFormNextChangeCommunityPerfectCuttingGenerationsNeededAbuseTragedyInstitutionsStructureReformOld DaysStrandsGood Old DaysDemolition Author:Richard Louv
“We need to encourage members of this next generation to become all that they can become, not try to force them to become what we want them to become. . . . You and I can't even begin to dream the dreams this next generation is going to dream, or answer the questions that will be put to them.” WantNeedsTryingI CanDreamNextForceAnswersGenerationsMembersNext Generation Author:Barbara Coloroso
“The 'American dream' ... means an economy in which people who work hard can get ahead and each new generation lives better than the last one. The 'American dream' also means a democratic political system in which most people feel they can affect public decisions and elect officials who will speak for them. In recent years, the dream has been fading.” PeopleFeelsYearsMeanHas BeensHardDreamLastsPoliticalSpeakDecisionEconomyGenerationsHard WorkEconomicsDemocraticOfficialsAmerican DreamPolitical SystemsNew GenerationFadingGet Ahead Author:Alice Rivlin
“In two or three hundred years life on earth will be unimaginably beautiful, astounding. Man needs such a life and if it hasn't yetappeared, he should begin to anticipate it, wait for it, dream about it, prepare for it. To achieve this, he has to see and know more than did his grandfather and father.” IfsKnowsMenNeedsShouldYearsTwoDreamEarthBeautifulThreeFatherWaitingChangeGenerationsAchieveHundredGrandfatherAnticipate Author:Anton Chekhov
“Every new generation in its hour of dawn, filled with the dreams of youth, its thirsts, intoxications and enthusiasms, thinks itself called upon to impel humanity towards heights unmeasured, believes itself an appointed pathfinder, a thinker of thoughts, a doer of deeds greater than any of those which came before. Every new generation desires beauty, but a beauty all its own.” ThinkingBelieveDreamDesireHumanityHoursGreaterGenerationsYouthFilledDeedsEnthusiasmDawnHeightThinkerThirstNew GenerationDoersIntoxication Author:Ignacy Jan Paderewski
“[It is possible] that the race of red men ... will, before many generations, be remembered only as a strange, weird, dream-like specter, which has passed once before the eyes of men, but had departed forever.” MenDreamEyeRememberRaceForeverGenerationsStrangeRedRememberedDepartedWeird Dream Author:James A. Garfield
“We don't need to reinvent manliness. We only need to will ourselves to wake up from the bad dream of the last few generations and reclaim it, in order to extend and enrich that tradition under the formidable demands of the present.” MenNeedsDreamLastsOrderGenerationsDemandTraditionWake UpManhoodFormidableManlinessBad Dream Author:Waller R Newell
“Every time you win a cup it's special, but it's a dream come true when it happens at a club where you started in the youth set-up, surrounded by friends who formed an incredible generation of players.” DreamHappensWinningPlayerGenerationsSpecialYouthIncrediblesClubsCupsDreams Come TrueSurrounded By Friends Author:Clarence Seedorf
“I'm not a genius. I just worked really, really hard, and I want our generation, our children and our future generations to realize that they can fulfill the same dreams.” WantChildrenHardDreamRealizingGenerationsGeniusOur ChildrenOur FutureFuture GenerationOur Generation Author:Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa
“That is what is most special about achieving equality - the positive signal that it will send the world over to the next generation of girls dreaming of winning Wimbledon or becoming a scientist or going to the moon as an astronaut.” WorldDreamGirlNextWinningGenerationsAchieveSpecialBecomingMoonScientistSignalsNext GenerationAstronautWimbledon Author:Maria Sharapova
“I don't expect my flight to produce a generation of astronauts and cosmonauts back home, but I hope it will encourage people to pursue their dreams.” PeopleHomeDreamGenerationsProducePursueFlightAstronautBack Home Author:Mark Shuttleworth