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“I wouldn't say that processed food, ready meals and even takeaways aren't relevant to modern life, it's just that over the past 40 years there are three generations of people who have come out of school and gone through their home life without ever being shown how to cook properly.”

People Years Home School Past Three Gone Generations Modern Ready Cooks Meals Relevant Modern Life Over The Past Home Life Three Generations Processed Food Takeaways

Author:Jamie Oliver

“We've been around for almost three decades now - there's about three generations of Bon Jovi fans.”

Three Generations Fans Decades Three Generations Bon Jovi

Author:Richie Sambora

“I went to Iraq because I wanted to see what one year of occupation had done to Iraqi society, and I went to the West Bank and Gaza Strip because I wanted to see what three generations of occupation had done to Palestinian society. I found a lot more hopelessness and despair in Palestine.”

Years Done Wanted Three Found Generations Despair West Iraq Occupation Palestinian Hopelessness Palestine Gaza Three Generations Gaza Strip

Author:Michael Franti

“The old process of social assimilation used to be mainly about English new money - generated in London, the mucky, brassy North or the colonies - buying those houses and restoring them, and doing the three-generation thing, mouldering into the landscape, and the 'community,' identifying with the place in a familiar way.”

Way Used Three House Social Process Community Generations London Familiar Used To Be Landscape Buying Colony Assimilation Identifying Restoring Three Generations

Author:Peter York

“America was built by immigrants. Almost nobody that I know is any more than three generations, maybe four generations, American.”

Knows America Three Four Generations Built Immigrants Three Generations Four Generations

Author:Michael Bloomberg

“The way we deny death says something about how we live our lives, doesn't it? At least in Sweden or Scandinavia, you don't have to search further back in time than maybe three generations to find another way to relate to death. People then had a different, closer relationship with death; at least it was like that in the countryside.”

People Way Different Three Our Lives Generations Deny Relate Another Way Countryside Sweden Back In Time Three Generations Scandinavia

Author:Karl Ove Knausgard

“If we could only use other folks' experience, this here world would be heaven in about three generations, but we're so constructed that we never believe fire'll burn till we poke our own fingers into it to see. Other folks' scars don't go no ways at all toward convincin' us.”

Ifs World Way Believe Use Would Be Three Heaven Fire Generations Advice Experience Fingers Folks Scar Poke Three Generations

Author:Myrtle Reed

“Even the humblest men have a strange reason behind greed. Every man thinks money solves problems - and every man thinks not just of himself, but his next three generations - there is a probability he will live to see those generations - and he wants to care for them in times of strife.”

Thinking Men Want Reason Problem Care Three Next Behinds Generations Strange Greed Solve Every Man Strife Probability Three Generations

Author:Siddharth Katragadda

“Southerners have been known to stay over the Fourth and not get home before Thanksgiving. Some oldtimers take in overnight guests and keep them through three generations.”

Has Beens Home Three Known Generations Guests Fourth Southerner Three Generations

Author:Mary Ellen Snodgrass

“Maybe there are three or four really good poets in a generation.”

Three Four Generations Poet

Author:Kenneth Koch

“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 three generations at home, including my father-in-law. I keep a very low profile, and a lot of things I do are very much with the family in mind. I have actually made films with the family around me.”

Mind Made Home Film Law Three Father Generations Lows Including In-laws Profile Three Generations Father In Law

Author:Mira Nair

“The man who sees two or three generations is like one who sits in the conjuror's booth at a fair, and sees the same tricks two or three times. They are meant to be seen only once.”

Men Two Three Generations He Man Fairs Tricks Meant To Be Three Times Three Generations

Author:Arthur Schopenhauer

“Our audience is young and vibrant; we retain our previous following; we are three generations into it. Unlike other bands that are very demographically specific, who they appeal to and who their fans are, we're the antithesis of that. If you see your younger brother or a parent of yours or a neighbor at most rock concerts, that's not cool but with us and kids, it's a tribal gathering. Whether it's kids or neighbors - they're all part of a secret society.”

“Go to the adolescent who are smothered in family-- Oh how hideous it is To see three generations of one house gathered together! It is like an old tree with shoots, And with some branches rotted and falling.”

Together Fall Three House Generations Tree Oppression Branches Adolescence Hideous Old Trees Three Generations

Book:Delphi Poetical Works of Ezra Pound (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Poetical Works of Ezra Pound (Illustrated)

“My mother saved our home with a minimum wage job. But in the 1960s, a minimum wage job would support a family of three above the poverty line. Not today. Not even close. I understood right then that people can work hard, they can play by the rules, and they can still take a hard smack.”

“Congress needs to send a strong signal that direct communication with the leader of the free world is a privilege, particularly for a regime that has been as hostile as Iran has been towards America for more than three decades. President Rouhani needs to take these two simple steps to demonstrate good faith before any further discussions.”

“Someone is an ignoramus who would say that, 'Oh, we had three hurricanes this year. This proves that somehow the climate is warming.' The earth is 4.5 billion years old, and you're going to say that we had four hurricanes and so it proves a theory?”

Years Reality Earth Science Three Politics Nature Party History Four Generations Theory Prove Climate Billions Ideology Tea Free Speech Hurricanes Tea Party

Author:Rand Paul

“When three generations are present in a family, one of them is bound to be revolutionary.”

Three Generations Bounds Revolutionary Three Generations

Author:Elise M. Boulding

“Superstring theories provide a framework in which the force of gravity may be united with the other three forces in nature: the weak, electromagnetic and strong forces. Recent progress has shown that the most promising superstring theories follow from a single theory. For the last generation, physicists have studied five string theories and one close cousin. Recently it has become clear that these five or six theories are different limiting cases of one theory which, though still scarcely understood, is the candidate for superunification of the forces of nature.”

“Grave-stones tell truth scarce forty years. Generations pass while families last not three oaks.”

Years Lasts Three Generations Stones Graves Forty Scarce Oaks

Book:The Works of Sir Thomas Browne: Hydriotaphia. Brampton urns. A letter to a friend, upon occasion of the death of his intimate friend. Christian morals, &c. Miscellany tracts. Repertorium. Miscellanies. Domestic correspondence, journals, &c. Miscellaneous correspondence

Source: The Works of Sir Thomas Browne: Hydriotaphia. Brampton urns. A letter to a friend, upon occasion of the death of his intimate friend. Christian morals, &c. Miscellany tracts. Repertorium. Miscellanies. Domestic correspondence, journals, &c. Miscellaneous correspondence

“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.”

Ifs Knows Men Needs Should Years Two Dream Earth Beautiful Three Father Waiting Change Generations Achieve Hundred Grandfather Anticipate

Author:Anton Chekhov

“The problem is, we've had three generations of Iranians who have come to really hate the United States. The Persians used to be a pretty strong - my on problem with people who say don't talk to him.”

People States Problem Used Hate Three Strong United United States Generations Used To Be Three Generations

Author:Bob Beckel

“I see young people being dismissed for supposedly wanting only "stupid" and "easy" material, or that they don't have an attention span longer than three minutes. I disagree with all those statements; I just think they aren't true. I'm saying that our generation wants stuff that is substantial and challenging, as well as thoughtful and endearing. Well, I don't know if I'm doing that, but I'm trying.”

“I think it's going to take three or four generations of gay people being able to get married before it starts feeling less like we're going through these motions, that we're aping a heterosexual institution.”

People Thinking Feelings Able Three Four Generations Gay Married Institutions Gay People Four Generations

Author:Dan Savage

“"A Tale of Three Cities" is a tribute to our parents' generation, who escaped from city to city in search of their loved ones and in search of a place to build a better home. The story is set during the turbulent war years in China in the '40s and '50s.”

Years War Stories Home Three Parent Cities Generations China Tales Loved Ones Tribute

Author:Mabel Cheung

“I'm trying to influence the next generation or two generations or three generations behind me. That's a big ambition of mine.”

Trying Two Bigs Three Next Behinds Generations Influence Mines Ambition Next Generation Three Generations

Author:James Frey

“Crossing the Finish Line is a must-read for anyone concerned with the disturbing fact that Americans can no longer count on each generation being better educated than the last. Focusing on public institutions that educate more than three-fourths of U.S. students, Bowen, Chingos, and McPherson provide compelling arguments that institutions and policymakers must find new ways to overcome deeply entrenched patterns if our country is to regain its position as the most educated.”

“We have the potential for making massive change... and the bottom line is that we can't be the generation responsible for wiping out three-fourths of life forms on the Earth.”

Life Earth Form Three Change Lines Generations Responsible Bottom Life Changing Massive Bottom Line Wiping Out Massive Change

Author:Anthony D. Barnosky

“Modern problems proliferate and remain unsolved because we spend so much time trying to deal with societal and world problems without first dealing with family and community problems. If we organized for normal families and communities - if these two groups provided the functions they are designed for - world problems would diminish and fade out in two or three generations.”

Ifs World Trying Firsts Two Problem Three Community Deals Generations Groups Modern Normal Function Organized Fades Diminish World Problems Three Generations Normal Family

Author:Ralph Borsodi

“Generations pass while some tree stands, and old families last not three oaks.”

Lasts Three Generations Tree Oaks

Author:Robert Browning

“What I found interesting about Slava Fetisov was that he went through three different generations of Soviet hockey. In the late 70's, he experienced the Miracle on Ice, and then in the 80's became with his teammates the Russian Five, the most dominant team in the history of hockey, and then helped bring down the hockey system when the Soviet Union collapsed and became one of the first players to play in the NHL, and then ultimately came back to Russia.”

Firsts Different Play Three Found Interesting Five Player Generations Team Late Miracle Unions Russia Ice Hockey Soviet Dominant Soviet Union Teammate Nhl Different Generations

Author:Gabe Polsky

“The nuclear industry has this amazing record, even equipment from generations one and two. But nuclear mishaps tend to come in these big events - Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, and now Fukushima - so it's more visible.”

Two Bigs Three Records Generations Events Industry Nuclear Miles Islands Visible Equipment Chernobyl Big Events Mishaps Fukushima Three Mile Island

Author:Bill Gates

“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