#generation

In our generation, the role models were Gandhi and Nehru. We revered them. They were venerated personalities. I read almost every speech of Nehru. ↗

— Pranab Mukherjee

#every #gandhi #generation #i #models

For generations, Americans who aren't rich have been generous and admiring of their wealthy compatriots - want a country where people who work hard can succeed, where the same rules apply to everyone. They expect to have their own shot at getting rich. But increasingly, they are seeing that the game is rigged. ↗

— Dee Dee Myers

#apply #been #compatriots #country #everyone

We can preserve Social Security benefits for generations of Americans without privatizing this important program. ↗

— Richard Neal

#generations #important #preserve #privatizing #program

My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our Cabernet stage. ↗

— Peggy Noonan

#between #choice #chose #despair #existential

We have a complex system of government. You have to teach it to every generation. ↗

— Sandra Day O'Connor

#complex system #every #generation #government #system

'Harry Potter' created a generation of readers in an era when kids could have disappeared into the depths of the Internet. That's no small feat. Every book series owes J.K. Rowling a debt of gratitude. ↗

— Gary Ross

#could #created #debt #depths #disappeared

Today jazz is still very much alive. Everywhere I go there's a new generation of musicians. ↗

— Toots Thielemans

#everywhere #generation #go #i #jazz

We're all like little ants who scurry around with the materials that are at hand right now. Each generation finds new materials. Its just evolution, isn't it? ↗

— Beth Orton

#around #each #evolution #finds #generation

Republicans say they want citizenship to truly mean something. Let's be equal-opportunity about it and test everyone, including those very Republicans and others whose forbears came here generations ago. ↗

— Eric Liu

#ago #came #citizenship #everyone #generations

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