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  • Some people accuse the new generation of being ignorant, maybe ignorant for the old generation, but it's a new language. -- Domenico Dolce
  • I think as a celebrity, we have to teach the young generation how to speak with the old generation. -- Jackie Chan
  • A culture which doesn't believe in region and religion is like a rock music, noise for old generation & nirvana for the young ones. -- Megha Khare
  • I'm an older generation. -- Martin Scorsese
  • The ukulele has always appealed to the older generation. -- Jake Shimabukuro
  • Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new. -- Henry David Thoreau
  • For an older generation of employees, social media often remains misunderstood and underutilized. -- Ryan Holmes
  • Generation X is dead. It has come to mean anyone aged 13 to 55 years old. -- William Gibson
  • I'm showing the younger generation your career doesn't have to be over when you're 16-years-old. -- Nastia Liukin
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  • All of the generations go to what is chic for them, and theater seems to be an older generation's art form. -- Estelle Parsons
  • There is a widening gap between the middle-aged-to-older generation, who still read newspapers and watch CCTV news, and the Internet generation. -- Rebecca MacKinnon
  • What's really important for me is, as an old man, I'm known by my own generation and the next generation know me, too. -- Christopher Lee
  • The Greatest Generation got to save old tires, dig a Victory Garden and forgo sugar. The Richest Generation is being asked to shop. -- Margaret Carlson
  • I wouldn't say they're neglected, but everybody is going to grow old and we should be looking after the older generation more than we do at the moment. -- Alan Hansen
  • I tend to write about more than one generation because as a child I had contact with more than one generation; it was normal to be around older people. -- Joanne Harris
  • I'm one of a generation brought up on television whose acting is more 'naturalistic', whereas with some of the older generation it's more heightened. But I think there's room for both styles. -- David Oyelowo
  • There are a lot of complaints by the older generation about the lack of action in this generation. My retort: give these people something to be engaged in. Cutting a check is not engaging. -- Ben Rattray
  • The old Greeks dwelt on the tendency of human affairs to drift downwards irresistibly to unhappiness. Guilt - that is, untoward and often involuntary actions - pulls generation after generation heavily as lead down, down, down. -- Richard Jefferies
  • The schools would fail through their silence, the Church through its forgiveness, and the home through the denial and silence of the parents. The new generation has to hear what the older generation refuses to tell it. -- Simon Wiesenthal
  • A characteristic of older folksongs, in most cases, is that we don't know their composers or authors. Older folksongs were written often with no commercial purpose in mind. They were passed down by word of mouth, from generation to generation. -- Tom Glazer
  • While the women of the older generation were thankful if only they succeeded in obtaining 'a work and a duty,' however monotonous and wearing it might be, the will of the younger generation for a pleasurable labour has fortunately increased. -- Ellen Key
  • Every generation of converts threshes over the same old straw. -- Susan B. Anthony
  • Generation X is dead. It has come to mean anyone aged 13 to 55 years old -- William Gibson
  • The Gospel never grows old. It applies to every generation alike. We have to make a choice. -- Billy Graham
  • Each generation must get on the same old merry-go-round, only disguised in a fresh coat of paint. -- Katherine Anne Porter
  • If every 8 year old in the world is taught meditation, we will eliminate violence from the world within one generation -- Dalai Lama
  • Every old man complains of the growing depravity of the world, of the petulance and insolence of the rising generation. -- Samuel Johnson
  • I'm not good at texting because I'm an older generation, old school. And nobody ever listens to the answering machine anymore. It's terrible. -- Igor Levit
  • I am of the very last generation who didn't have computers at school. As we grow old we'll become something of an aberration. -- Steve Coogan
  • I'm really into my photography and am trying to catch up with digital generation - I was used to the old 35mm cameras. -- David Suchet
  • My first generation of young readers now have not only children, but some of them have grandchildren to whom they're introducing their old passion. -- Diane Duane
  • My father was like the Old Testament. I am the New Testament. I am part of a new generation. In time, people will realize this. -- Ziggy Marley
  • I guess every generation is doomed to fight its war...suffer the loss of the same old illusions, and learn the same old lessons on its own. -- Philip Caputo
  • A whole other generation is coming up to me now - anywhere from 8 to 22 years old - wanting me to sign autographs. They think Journey was awesome. -- Steve Perry
  • I don't consider this younger generation to be lost, quite the opposite, they must continue. It is up to them. The old political system no longer functions. -- Enki Bilal
  • The stone which Jacob consecrated at Bethel the generation of the living continues to anoint, paying the tithes which of old he vowed to the house of God there. -- Julius Wellhausen
  • My generation of radicals and breakers-down never found anything to take the place of the old virtues of work and courage and the old graces of courtesy and politeness. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • The TV generation is postliterate and retribalized. It seeks by violence to scrub the old private image and to merge in a new tribal identity, like any corporate executive. -- Marshall McLuhan
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