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“I think 'Horace Silver' was actually the first live jazz group I ever heard back when I was a kid in St. Louis. So along with most players of my generation, I have a real affection for the music of 'Horace Silver.”

Thinking Firsts Real Kids Player Generations Heard Groups Jazz Affection Silver My Generation Back When

Author:David Sanborn

“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

“We were the children of white flight, the first generation to grow up in postwar American suburbs. By the time the ’60s rolled around, many of us, the gay ones especially, were eager to make a U-turn and fly back the other way. Whether or not the city was obsolete, we couldn’t imagine our personal futures in any other form. The street and the skyline signified to us what the lawn and the highway signified to our parents: a place to breathe free.”

Way Firsts Children Form Turns Grows Parent White Cities Growing Up Imagine Generations Streets Gay Breathe Flight Highways Obsolete Suburbs Lawns Skylines

Author:Herbert Muschamp

“And it may be that a crowd at a particular moment of history creates the object to justify its gathering, as it did at the first Human Be-In and Monterey Pop and Woodstock. Or it may be that two generations of war and surveillance had left people craving the embodiment of their own unease in the form of a lone, unsteady man on a slide guitar.”

Source: A Visit From the Goon Squad

“I'm a first generation American. My mother is Italian and Russian and a lot of other things, and my father is Uruguayan. In fact, my mother's been married twice, and both men were Uruguayan. So I grew up in a very European/Latin American-influenced home.”

Men Firsts Facts Home Mother Father Generations Grew Married Grew Up Latin Italian Latin America Latin American

Author:Sebastian Arcelus

“You know, I'm part of that first MTV generation.”

Knows Firsts Generations Mtv

Author:Alexandra Patsavas

“From the time I read my first Hemingway work, The Sun Also Rises, as a student at Soldan High School in St. Louis, I was struck with an affliction common to my generation: Hemingway Awe.”

Firsts School Common Sun Generations Students High School Awe Heroism Affliction My Generation Sun Also Rises

Book:Papa Hemingway: A Personal Memoir

Source: Papa Hemingway: A Personal Memoir

“Simonides, a poet famous in his generation, is, I think, author of the oldest satire that is now extant, and, as some say, of the first that was ever written.”

Thinking Firsts Written Generations Poet Satire

Book:The spectator

Source: The spectator

“My big advantage was to have my father accept me as first-generation.”

Firsts Bigs Father Accepting Generations Advantage Accept Me

Author:Mukesh Ambani

“When the next generation of content is developed, we have to think in a totally different way. Think about it more symbolically. The main story that you see on the TV screen is maybe like the living room of a house. But there are various other rooms in this house that you will otherwise never see. But if you use the Internet, you find out what's in the attic. And if you use the cell phone, you find out what's on the first floor. And on another medium, you find out what's in the cellar.”

“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

“I remember as a ranger the first time I stood alone on Inspiration Point over at Canyon Station looking out over this beautiful land. I thought to myself how lucky I was that my parents' and grandparents' generation had the vision and the determination to save it for us. Now it is our turn to make our own gift outright to those who will come after us, 15 years, 40 years, 100 years from now. I want to be as faithful to my grandchildren's generation as Old Faithful has been to ours. What better way can we add a new dimension to our third century of freedom?”

“The first requisite of a good citizen in this Republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his weight; that he shall not be a mere passenger, but shall do his share in the work that each generation of us finds ready to hand; and, furthermore, that in doing his work he shall show, not only the capacity for sturdy self-help, but also self-respecting regard for the rights of others.”

Firsts Self Helping Shows Hands Able Rights Generations Share Self Help Willing Ready Citizens Capacity Weight Regard Mere Republic Passengers Good Citizen Sturdy

Author:Theodore Roosevelt

“We are the lucky generation. We first broke our earthly bonds and ventured into space. From our descendants- perches on other planets or distant space cities, they will look back at our achievement with wonder at our courage and audacity and with appreciation at our accomplishments, which assured the future in which they live.”

Firsts Looks Space Cities Wonder Generations Planets Walking Lucky Moon Achievement Appreciation Broke Accomplishment Assured Descendants Star Gazing Audacity

Author:Walter Cronkite

“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.”

Firsts Kind Art Dream Wanted Past Desire Left Sex Cities Generations Towns Get Away Crew

Author:Sarah Schulman

“John F. Kennedy, who seized the White House from Richard Nixon in a frenzied campaign that turned a whole generation of young Americans into political junkies, got shot in the head for his efforts, murdered in Dallas by some hapless geek named Oswald who worked for either Castro, the mob, Jimmy Hoffa, the CIA, his dominatrix landlady or the odious, degenerate FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover. The list is long and crazy - maybe Marilyn Monroe's first husband fired those shots from the grassy knoll. Who knows?”

“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.”

“A first-generation fortune is the most likely to be given away, but once a fortune is inherited it's less likely that a very high percentage will go back to society.”

Firsts Given Generations Fortune Percentages

Author:Bill Gates

“Today's a great time to be any creative type of person, I think, and in just about every aspect of creativity, this generation is going to blow away every generation ever. Because we're the first ones with the Internet. I can get together with some friends, shoot a movie, cut it on my laptop at home, and then put it online. We don't have to listen to anyone.”

Thinking Firsts Persons I Can Home Today Together Creativity Creative Cutting Generations Type Internet Aspect Blow Online Great Times Get Together This Generation Laptops

Author:Joseph Gordon-Levitt

“It is as the father of the Encyclopedia that Denis Diderot merits eternal recognition. Guilty as he was in almost every relation of life towards the individual, for mankind, in the teeth of danger and of infidelity, at the ill-paid sacrifice of the best years of his exuberant life, he produced that book which first levelled a free path to knowledge and enfranchised the soul of his generation.”

Years Firsts Book Soul Father Individual Path Generations Sacrifice Mankind Danger Eternal Relation Paid Ill Teeth Guilty Recognition Merit Infidelity Best Year Encyclopedia

Author:Evelyn Beatrice Hall

“Gadgets are usually the last thing I think about, and if there's something new, I'll get to the store for the final shipment of the first generation when it's on sale. So I have last year's stuff.”

Ifs Thinking Years Firsts Lasts Stuff Generations Finals Stores Something New Last Year Gadgets

Author:William Gibson

“Generations from now, when historians write about these times, they might note that, in the early decades of the twenty-first century, the United States succeeded in its great and historic mission--it globalized the world. But along the way, they might write, it forgot to globalize itself.”

World Way Writing Firsts States Might America United United States Generations Century Twenties Notes Missions Decades Historian Historic

Book:The Post-American World: And The Rise Of The Rest

Source: The Post-American World: And The Rise Of The Rest

“But the most common species of love is that which first arises from beauty, and afterwards diffuses itself into kindness and into the bodily appetite. Kindness or esteem, and the appetite to generation, are too remote to unite easily together. The one is, perhaps, the most refined passion of the soul; the other the most gross and vulgar. The love of beauty is placed in a just medium betwixt them, and partakes of both their natures: From whence it proceeds, that it is so singularly fitted to produce both.”

Love Firsts Soul Together Passion Love Is Common Kindness Generations Produce Species Arise Esteem Mediums Appetite Vulgar Gross Refined

Book:A Treatise of Human Nature: Top Philosophy Collections

Source: A Treatise of Human Nature: Top Philosophy Collections

“Prophecy is rash, but it may be that the publication of D.T. Suzuki's first Essays in Zen Buddhism in 1927 will seem to future generations as great an intellectual event as William of Moerbeke's Latin translations of Aristotle in the thirteenth century or Marsiglio Ficino's of Plato in the fifteenth.”

Firsts May Seems Generations Century Events Buddhism Intellectual Latin Prophecy Plato Essays Translations Future Generation Publication Zen Buddhism

Author:D.T. Suzuki

“My original goal in the '90s, after I found feminism and I was the first generation in my family to go to college, was to spread this information that feminism was still very much alive, and that you can't believe the media telling you that it doesn't need to exist and that it doesn't exist.”

Needs Firsts Believe Stills Found Goal Alive Generations Feminism Media Information College My Family Originals Spread

Author:Kathleen Hanna

“Our problem isn't that the universe isn't on our side; the problem is that too many of us numb these days, not awake to the game, or to the power of the universe that flows through our psychic veins. Some of us need to stop whining. It's not like we're the first generation who faced serious challenges. But others rose to the occasion, and we need to too.”

Needs Firsts Problem Universe Games Sides Challenges Generations Serious Flow Rose Occasions These Days Awake Psychics Veins Numb Whining Stop Whining

Author:Marianne Williamson

“To the extent that sacrifices need to be made, shouldn't the people who've made out like bandits this past generation be first in line? The problem with getting out of the slump is that we need to spend more. It's not that somebody needs to spend less. We have idle workers who have the skills and the willingness to work. We have idle factories. Dealing with this is not about saying somebody needs to suffer. It's saying that we need to be prepared to open the taps.”

People Needs Firsts Made Problem Past Suffering Lines Generations Sacrifice Skills Prepared Workers Willingness Factories Idle Be Prepared Bandits Slumps Past Generations

Author:Paul Krugman

“There's no question that all the generations got excited about the first flights, with Kennedy's inspiration to go to the moon, leaving the planet for the first time, and fortunately coming back.”

Firsts Inspiration Generations Planets Moon First Time Leaving Excited Flight Coming Back

Author:Alan Shepard

“The fundamental differences between Marxian and traditional orthodox economics are, first, that the orthodox economists accept the capitalist system as part of the eternal order of Nature, while Marx regards it as a passing phase in the transition from the feudal economy of the past to the socialist economy of the future.”

Source: Essay on Marxian Economics

“Wherever the Industrial system has reached its second generation it is threatened by two mortal perils. The first is the demand by an organized proletariat for sustenance without relation to the product of its labor; a demand which threatens the very existence of PROFIT (on the necessary presumption of which Capitalism reposes). The second, and immediately graver danger is that of a revolt for the confiscation of the means of production.”

“It is evident, indeed, that such a doctrine, taken by itself in a literal manner, had no future. The world, in continuing to exist, caused it to crumble. One generation of man at the most was the limit of its endurance. The faith of the first Christian generation is intelligible, but the faith of the second generation is no longer so. After the death of John, or of the last survivor, whoever he might be, of the group which had seen the master, the word of Jesus was convicted of falsehood.”

Source: The Life of Jesus: Works of Renan

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“When I gaze into the stars, they look down upon me with pity from their serene and silent spaces, like eyes glistening with tears over the little lot of man. Thousands of generations, all as noisy as our own, have been swallowed up by time, and there remains no record of them any more. Yet Arcturus and Orion, Sirius and Pleiades, are still shining in their courses, clear and young, as when the shepherd first noted them in the plain of Shinar!”

Men Firsts Looks Littles Has Beens Stills Eye Young Courses Stars Space Clear Records Generations Tears Remains Shining Silent Pity Serene Shepherds Noisy Sirius Orion

Author:Thomas Carlyle

“There is no figure more common in scripture, and none more beautiful, than that by which Christ is likened unto light. Incomprehensible in its nature, itself the first visible, and that by which all things are seen, light represents to us Christ. Whose generation none can declare, but Who must shine upon us ere we can know aught aright, whether of things Divine or human.”

Knows Firsts Humans Light Beautiful Christ Common Generations Figures Divine All Things Shining Scripture Visible Epiphany

Author:Herman Melville

“My generation is the first in my species to have put fitness next to godliness on the scale of things. Keeping in shape has become the imperative of our middle age. The heaviest burden of guilt we carry into our forties is flab. Our sense of failure is measured by the grade on a stress test.”

Firsts Age Next Generations Middle Shapes Tests Stress Guilt Species Burden Scales Grades Forty Fitness Imperatives Middle Ages My Generation Godliness

Book:Making Sense

Source: Making Sense

“today's children are the first generation to grow up in a world that has the power to destroy itself.”

World Firsts Children War Today Grows Growing Up Generations Nuclear War

Book:A Way of Seeing

Source: A Way of Seeing

“Our Founding Fathers were the first to articulate the reasons for their First Amendment, the same reasons given by Learned Hand, and by Justice Brennan in New York Times v. Sullivan . It is a lesson we keep forgetting and must relearn in each succeeding generation.”

Firsts Reason Hands Father Given Justice Forget Generations New York Lessons Succeed Amendments Freedom Of Speech Founding First Amendment New York Times Our Founding Fathers

Author:Gilbert S. Merritt, Jr.

“First generation Indian immigrants are mass guinea pigs. When a race that subsisted on plants for centuries subsists on a meat-dominated diet, it scares me to know what's in store for them”

Knows Firsts Race Generations Century Mass Plant Stores Indian Meat Diets Immigrants Scare Pigs Guinea Guinea Pigs

Author:Siddharth Katragadda

“Children are 25 percent of the population but 100 percent of the future. If we wish to renew society, we must raise up a generation of children who have strong moral character. And if we wish to do that, we have two responsibilities: first, to model good character in our own lives, and second, to intentionally foster character development in our young.”

Source: Character Matters: How to Help Our Children Develop Good Judgment, Integrity, and Other Essential Virtues

“It is true that one of the first acts of tyrants is to erase history, to wipe out the recorded memory of a people. With that in mind, it's important to remember that the work that we do as writers, artists and performers will form an essential part of the collective memory that future generations will draw upon. And so we owe it to those future generations to defend that memory and be honest witnesses to our times.”

“Incrementalism: In the first generation, the goal of the movement was wholesale social and cultural transformation. Small, incremental victories were too little given the magnitude of America's moral decay. Since 1988, the new leaders have recognized that incrementalism is the surest path to success in political competition. The current movement is committed to securing small victories now, postponing for the long-term more fundamental changes in society and politics.”

“The fight against syphilis demands a fight against prostitution, against prejudices, old habits, against previous conceptions, general views among them not least the false prudery of certain circles. The first prerequisite for even the moral right to combat these things is the facilitation of earlier marriage for the coming generation.”

Firsts Certain Fighting Religious Views Moral Generations Habit Demand Prejudice Circles Conception Combat Prostitution Prerequisites Mein Kampf Old Habits Syphilis

Book:Mein Kampf

Source: Mein Kampf

“A creator is not in advance of his generation but he is the first of his contemporaries to be conscious of what is happening to his generation.”

Firsts Generations Happenings Conscious Creator

Book:PICASSO: Cubism and Its Impact

Source: PICASSO: Cubism and Its Impact

“If you young people who today belong to the first generation of the 21st century make an effort now, you may be able to create a happier, more peaceful world. But you can't take for granted that it will happen by itself, you'll need to take action.”

People Ifs World Needs Firsts May Happens Today Able Action Young Effort Generations Century Peaceful Granted 21st Century Peaceful World

Author:Dalai Lama

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