#generation

They say you can't study Kabbalah until you are at least 40 years old. You know why? You have to have experienced at least one generation making the same mistakes as the previous one. ↗

— David Mamet

#generation #know #least #making #mistakes

It is worthwhile for anyone to have behind him a few generations of honest, hard-working ancestry. ↗

— John Phillips Marquand

#anyone #behind #few #generations #hard-working

The young very seldom lead anything in our country today. It's been quite some time since a younger generation pushed an older one to a higher standard. ↗

— Wynton Marsalis

#been #country #generation #higher #higher standard

My daddy expected that my brothers and I and our generation would make the world a better place. He had lived in an America of continual social progress. ↗

— Wynton Marsalis

#better #better place #brothers #continual #daddy

There really have only ever been a few people in each generation who step out, are willing to put themselves on the line, and risk everything for their beliefs. ↗

— Wynton Marsalis

#beliefs #each #ever #everything #few

Through first-class education, a generation marches down the long uncertain road of the future with confidence. ↗

— Wynton Marsalis

#down #education #first-class #future #generation

I used to think that all my Wings stuff was second-rate stuff, but I began to meet younger kids, not kids from my Beatle generation, who would say, We really love this song. ↗

— Paul McCartney

#began #generation #i #kids #love

When Kenny first came to me, I think he was thinking of making a nice little folk record, but in my opinion, folk music had come to an end and I felt he needed to go to the next step, the next generation. ↗

— Jim Messina

#come #end #felt #first #folk

An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations. ↗

— Charles de Montesquieu

#boring #content #fool #future #future generations

It's American Alternative radio stations that bug me. We're considered Alternative, but don't expect us to be played next to Blink 182 and Offspring. We're hardly of that generation. ↗

— Thurston Moore

#american #blink #bug #considered #expect