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“A Fraternity, too, is of such character that after men have left college they delight to renew their own youth by continued association with it and to bring their richest experiences back to the younger generation in part payment of the debt which they feel themselves owe to the fraternity for what it gave them in their formative years.”

Men Feels Years Character Left Generations Youth College Delight Debt Association Payment Fraternity Younger Generation Formative Years

Author:Newton D. Baker

“Maybe, generations ago, young people rebelled out of some clear motive, but now, we know we're rebelling. Between teen movies and sex-ed textbooks we're so ready for our rebellious phase we can't help but feel it's safe, contained. It will turn out all right, despite the risk, snug in the shell of rebellion narrative. Rebellion narrative, does that make sense? It was appropriate to do, so we did it.”

People Knows Feels Doe Helping Young Turns Sex Clear Risk Generations Ready Safe Despite Narrative Make Sense Motive Appropriate Rebellion Phases Shells Rebellious Textbooks

Author:Daniel Handler

“I'm Jewish, but my mom's Catholic, so the guilt area is covered. I have the highest expectations, along with the lowest. I tried to put as much of myself as possible in Reality Bites, but in terms of my humor, I'm still trying to figure out what my sensibility is. It's a process, really. I don't feel like I have a very clear idea of what I'm supposed to be, or even of how people perceive me, except that I got put into this Generation X file.”

“The world is charged with the grandeur of God. It will flame out like shining from shook foil? Generations have trod, have trod, have trod; And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil; And wearsman'ssmudgeand sharesman'ssmell: thesoil Is bare now, nor can foot feel, being shod.”

World Feels Generations Feet Trade Shining Flames Toil Grandeur Foils

Author:Gerard Manley Hopkins

“An intelligent man said that the world felt Napoleon as a weight, and that when he died it would give a great oof of relief. This is just as true of Byron, or of such Byrons of their days as Kipling and Hemingway: after a generation or two the world is tired of being their pedestal, shakes them of with an oof, and then - hoisting onto its back a new world-figure - feels the penetrating satisfaction of having made a mistake all its own.”

“My books have done extremely well, I know. But I don't honestly feel much different from when I began to write. I still think we have a long way to go. I suppose my name means more in Nigeria today than it did five years ago. But I feel the job that literature should do in our community has not even started. It's not yet part of the life of the nation. We are still at the beginning. It's a big beginning, because now we are catching the next generation in the schools. When I was their age, I had nothing to read that had any relevance to my own environment.”

Source: Conversations with Chinua Achebe

“Childhood obesity isn't about looks. And it's not about weight. It's about how our kids feel. And those are really the implications of the problem and the words that tell a fuller picture of the challenges that we face; you know, kids struggling in ways that they didn't a generation ago.”

Knows Way Feels Looks Problem Kids Faces Challenges Struggle Generations Childhood Weight Implications Obesity Childhood Obesity

Author:Michelle Obama

“I think women of a certain generation, mine in particular, feel like we can have it all because that's what we were fed. It's like, we reap the benefits of the feminist movement - they did all the legwork and now we're going to try to be parents and successful business people and great wives and good friends and take a cooking class and blah, blah, blah.”

“There is already a generation of European graduates who feel they have been robbed of the better future they were led to expect. They are members of a new class: the precariat.”

Feels Has Beens Class Generations Members Graduates Better Future New Class

Author:Timothy Garton Ash

“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.”

Ifs Knows World Feels Writing May Soul Dream Spirit Path Generations Magic Lucky Unique Inspired Library Driven Clever Setting Settings Wander Your Soul Volume Downloads Osmosis

Author:Arthur Plotnik

“Where a generation ago people felt entitled to a chance at education, they now feel entitled to the credential affirming that they have completed a course of study regardless of their actual mastery.”

People Feels Courses Felt Chance Study Generations Mastery Entitled Affirming

Book:In Defense of Elitism

Source: In Defense of Elitism

“I feel like a lot of the singer-songwriters in my genre and in my generation have gotten more and more snooty about covering other people's songs. They believe that creativity is the intersect of expression.”

People Feels Believe Song Creativity Generations Expression Singers Genre Songwriters Covering My Generation Singer Songwriters

Author:Brandi Carlile

“When I first started out, it was very, very difficult to even get in the room with directors or casting directors because they would see that I hadn't been to drama school and wouldn't want to see me. Now, I feel like it's changing. We have this new generation of a lot of writers, directors and actors who are just breaking through, and they're doing it for the passion.”

Want Feels Firsts School Passion Actors Difficult Rooms Generations Drama Directors Casting New Generation Casting Directors

Author:Kaya Scodelario

“My parents joined in the 60s and at that time it was really important - there was a group mentality. I could be pulling this out of my ass, but I feel our generation approaches things on a more individual basis, like we're more personal and don't need to be a part of a group.”

Needs Feels Important Individual Parent Generations Groups Approach Bases Ass Mentality Pulling Our Generation

Author:Taraka Larson

“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 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

“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

“What I do feel the modern child lacks, when compared with the earlier generation, is concentration, and the sheer dogged grit to carry a long job through. ... Helping children to face up to a certain amount of drudgery, cheerfully and energetically, is one of the biggest problems that teachers, in these days of ubiquitous entertainment, have to face in our schools.”

Source: Chronicles of Fairacre, Comprising Village School, Village Diary, and Storm in the Village

“I feel like we [americans] are a unique nation in this world, in that we are able to implement great change in our society over a relatively short period of time. What takes centuries in Europe, we accomplish in a generation.”

World Feels Able Nations Generations Century This World Periods Unique Europe Accomplish Our Society Great Change

Author:Khaled Hosseini

“If I cannot offer some relief to our world, if I cannot inspire our generation to join me, then I feel I am a complete waste of space. This constant fear of feeling irrelevant in our society has been the catalyst behind all my efforts and passions for as long as I can remember.”

“I feel it is our inherent duty as a humane society, above any intangible responsibility, to invest in our world's children's potential, passion and confidence.”

“Everybody's not going to like jazz, let's just be honest about it. Everybody doesn't like everything. There's a disconnect in generations and some people just aren't going to feel that music.”

People Feels Generations Honest Jazz Being Honest

Author:Robert Glasper

“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.”

“Future generations should feel proud of our accomplishments in space...We are destined to explore and colonize the universe.”

Feels Should Universe Space Generations Proud Accomplishment Destined Future Generation

Author:Robert McCall

“There is a tradition in Southern cooking of recipes handed down for generations. And when I make my grandmother's strawberry pie I feel her right with me.”

Feels Generations Tradition Cooking Grandmother Southern Pie My Grandmother Recipes Strawberries

Author:Kimberly Schlapman

“The modern individual is committed to being successful, not to being a person. He belongs rightly to the action generation whose motto is do more but feel less.”

Feels Persons Action Individual Successful Generations Modern Committed Being Successful Motto

Author:Alexander Lowen

“It is not always easy to be who we are, but as we grow up and mature and develop coping mechanisms that enable us to survive and thrive in a complicated world, we have the responsibility to reach back and help others still struggling along the way. In so doing, we can also help ourselves. Above all, we cannot allow each generation to grow up in a world where they feel they are alone while we carry so much knowledge, history, and foundation that we can, and must, pass on to them.”

“There are a lot of people, especially the younger generation who don't feel that they need to support the artists by buying their music because they grew up learning that record companies are evil.”

People Needs Feels Artist Evil Company Support Records Generations Grew Grew Up Music Is Buying Record Companies Younger Generation

Author:Bob Mould

“Let the girl be thoroughly developed in body and soul, not modeled, like a piece of clay, after some artificial specimen of humanity, with a body like some plate in Godey's book of fashion, and a mind after the type of Father Gregory's pattern daughters, loaded down with the traditions, proprieties, and sentimentalities of generations of silly mothers and grandmothers, but left free to be, to grow, to feel, to think, to act. Development is one thing, that system of cramping, restraining, torturing, perverting, and mystifying, called education, is quite another.”

Source: History of woman suffrage

“Here are poems from a new generation of writers who honor the magnetic fields of the real; who feel and think with full and open-eyed passion; who focus heat as the magnifying glass focuses sun: until the paper catches. Read them.”

Thinking Feels Real Passion Sun Focus Generations Fields Honor Paper Glasses Heat New Generation Magnetic Magnifying Magnifying Glass Magnetic Fields

Author:Jane Hirshfield

“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.”

“Do we all become garrulous and confidential as we approach the gates of old age? Is it that we instinctively feel, and cannot help asserting, our one advantage over the younger generation, which has so many over us? - the one advantage of time!”

Feels Helping Age Generations Approach Advantage Old Age Gates Younger Generation Confidential

Author:Mary Augusta Ward

“Every poet depends upon generations who wrote in his native tongue; he inherits styles and forms elaborated by those who lived before him. At the same time, though, he feels that those old means of expression are not adequate to his own experience.”

Feels Mean Form Generations Style Poet Expression Depends Tongue Native Adequate

Author:Czeslaw Milosz

“I feel education is more important even now for the younger generation than when I was younger. The kids really need to buckle down and get a good education. That's why it's so important to have computer programs and good tutoring programs, so they can have fun in school. It also keeps them out of trouble.”

Needs Feels Important Kids School Fun Generations Trouble Computer Program Down And Having Fun Younger Generation Good Education Buckles

Author:Albert Belle

“Flowers so strictly belong to youth, that we adult men soon come to feel, that their beautiful generations concern not us: we havehad our day; now let the children have theirs. The flowers jilt us, and we are old bachelors with our ridiculous tenderness.”

Men Feels Children Beautiful Generations Youth Flower Adults Concern Ridiculous Tenderness Bachelors

Book:Emerson's Essays: Top Essays

Source: Emerson's Essays: Top Essays

“Everybody feels like they need a photograph because we're in a generation where, if you don't document it, it didn't occur. So you've got to stop and take a picture with everybody.”

Ifs Needs Feels Generations Photograph Documents

Author:Jesse Eisenberg

“Church is missing transcendence. My generation was raised on a religion of moral control. Do this. Don't do that. And a lot of self-help religion. Feel better. Get out of debt. Six ways to overcome your fears. Seven ways not to lust. Ultimately that message didn't work. It was empty. There was no transcendence. The omniscient, omnipresent, all-powerful God of the universe wasn't the focus.”

“I think with each generation comes more opportunity. At least that's the way that I see it. I grew up in a generation that watched the birth of the internet. We all have. But I feel like I look around at the generation younger than me and it's a very opportunistic mantra.”

Thinking Way Feels Looks Opportunity Generations Grew Birth Internet Grew Up Mantras

Author:Justin Timberlake

“The soil is actually the greatest technology we have for adapting to climate change. And I feel it's our generation's duty to build it back up.”

Feels Technology Generations Duty Climate Climate Change Soil Our Generation Adapting

Author:Jason Mraz

“I feel like as a generation, we sell ourselves short. I just expected more from us.”

Feels Generations Sells Expected

Author:Kelly Clarkson

“Most British playwrights of my generation, as well as younger folks, apparently feel somewhat obliged to Russian literature - and not only those writing for theatres. Russian literature is part of the basic background knowledge for any writer. So there is nothing exceptional in the interest I had towards Russian literature and theatre. Frankly, I couldn't image what a culture would be like without sympathy towards Russian literature and Russia, whether we'd be talking about drama or Djagilev.”

“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.”

“I think as a veteran player, in general, you should feel that sense of responsibility to try to lead these guys to becoming good pros. You want the league to be in good hands, and you want these guys to become great NFL players and then pass it along to the next generation. You can only lead by example, and that's pretty much what I'm trying to do.”

Thinking Want Feels Should Trying Hands Guy Next Responsibility Player Generations Example Becoming League Nfl Veteran Next Generation Sense Of Responsibility Nfl Players

Author:Champ Bailey

“Remorse is extremely useful for a generation which has in fact dirtied its hands but for the next generation you cannot ask, for instance, young Germans today to feel guilty about Hitlerism.”

Feels Facts Hands Today Young Next Asks Generations Guilty Instance Remorse Next Generation

Author:Pascal Bruckner

“I live just outside of Salt Lake City in a place called Emigration Canyon. It's on the Mormon trail. So I feel deeply connected, not only because of my Mormon roots, which are five or six generations, but because of where we live. There isn't a day that goes by that I'm not mindful of the spiritual sovereignty that was sought by my people in coming to Utah.”

People Feels Spiritual Cities Five Generations Six Roots Connected Lakes Salt Sovereignty Trails Canyons Utah Emigration Salt Lake City

Author:Terry Tempest Williams

“Somebody asked me what I thought next generation meant and what about the PlayStation 3 was next generation. The only next gen system I've seen is the Wii - the PS3 and the Xbox 360 feel like better versions of the last, but pretty much the same game with incremental improvement.”

Feels Lasts Next Games Generations Improvement Versions Next Generation Xbox Playstation Wii Playstation 3

Author:Will Wright

“There are generations of people who have never seen a big plate painting in person. And they don't know what the hell they look like, they don't know what it feels like to stand in a room with them.”

People Knows Feels Looks Persons Bigs Rooms Hell Generations Painting Plates

Author:Julian Schnabel

“As we grow older we think more and more of old persons and of old things and places. As to old persons, it seems as if we never know how much they have to tell until we are old ourselves and they have been gone twenty or thirty years. Once in a while we come upon some survivor of his or her generation that we have overlooked, and feel as if we had recovered one of the lost books of Livy or fished up the golden candlestick from the ooze of the Tiber.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Feels Years Persons Has Beens Book Seems Lost Grows Know How Gone Generations Twenties Golden Thirty Survivor Thirty Years Overlooked Old Things Old Person

Author:Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

“German people get very uptight if you mention World War II. Germans today feel that what's past is past, new generations don't really remember it.”

People Ifs World Feels War Today Past Remember Generations War Of The Worlds World War Ii World War I New Generation Uptight

Author:Donna Summer

“I just feel like it's fascinating to me just watching my own family, seeing my cousins have children here, seeing the generations go on, and seeing how people are still very connected to their home, but are actually, of course, Americans too. That sort of a hybrided sense of self is something that I yearn to see more of expressed.”

People Feels Children Stills Self Home Courses My Own Seeing Generations Goes On Connected Fascinating Cousin Sense Of Self My Cousin

Author:Danai Gurira

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