#generation

My generation was not only maligned in book reviews and attacked in graduate school but we lived to see our adored and adorable daughters wonder why feminism had become a dirty word. ↗

— Erica Jong

#adored #attacked #become #book #daughters

I want to be the bridge to the next generation. ↗

— Michael Jordan

#generation #i #next #want

Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans - born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

#been #bitter #born #century #disciplined

We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

#generation #history #last #make #mankind

Fortunes are made, and disappear, over the lifetime of a single generation. Today, a person in essence takes his wealth from society just for the duration of his or her lifetime. The next generation has to create it anew. ↗

— Mikhail Khodorkovsky

#create #disappear #duration #essence #fortunes

We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

#actions #appalling #bad #bad people #generation

I didn't fully realize it at the time, but the goal of my life was profoundly molded by this experience - to help produce, in the next generation, more Mother Teresas and less Hitlers. ↗

— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#fully #generation #goal #help #i

I think, my generation, it's hard to have hope when you got a $700-trillion derivatives debt to pay and a bubble about to explode and $500 trillion worth of GDP. ↗

— Shia LaBeouf

#bubble #debt #derivatives #explode #gdp

I had seen the films out of World War II, the great 82nd Airborne, the 101st, and all of those of you in the greatest generation and the service that you had provided. ↗

— Hugh Shelton

#generation #great #greatest #greatest generation #had

Formation of a new race takes place when, over several generations, individuals in one group reproduce more frequently among themselves than they do with individuals in other groups. ↗

— J. Philippe Rushton

#formation #frequently #generations #group #groups