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Sell also: contemporaries, genesis, multiplication, propagation

Definitions and meanings of word "generation"

• Noun: all the people living at the same time or of approximately the same age

• Noun: group of genetically related organisms constituting a single step in the line of descent

• Noun: the normal time between successive generations; example: "they had to wait a generation for that prejudice to fade"

• Noun: a stage of technological development or innovation; example: "the third generation of computers"

• Noun: a coming into being

• Noun: the production of heat or electricity; example: "dams were built for the generation of electricity"

• Noun: the act of producing offspring or multiplying by such production

Featured authors with quotes containing word "generation"

Julian Castro
5 quotes about generation
American Politician
Born Monday 16 September 1974
Paul Ryan
4 quotes about generation
American Politician, Vice President
Born Thursday 29 January 1970
Wynton Marsalis
5 quotes about generation
American Artist, Musician, Educator, Director, Composer
Born Wednesday 18 October 1961
Erik Qualman
one quote about generation
American Author, Speaker
Born 1972
Trip Hawkins
3 quotes about generation
American Businessman
Born Monday 28 December 1953
Ronald Reagan
2 quotes about generation
American President, Actor
Monday 6 February 1911 - Saturday 5 June 2004
F. Scott Fitzgerald
2 quotes about generation
American Writer, Author
Thursday 24 September 1896 - Saturday 21 December 1940
Billy Graham
3 quotes about generation
American Celebrity, Clergyman
Thursday 7 November 1918 - Wednesday 21 February 2018
Ronnie James Dio
one quote about generation
American Writer, Musician, Songwriter
Friday 10 July 1942 - Sunday 16 May 2010
Tony Parsons
2 quotes about generation
English Critic
Born 1953
Thomas Jefferson
2 quotes about generation
American President, Author
Saturday 13 April 1743 - Tuesday 4 July 1826
John F. Kennedy
3 quotes about generation
American President
Tuesday 29 May 1917 - Friday 22 November 1963

You're talking about a younger generation, Generation Y, whose interpersonal communication skills are different from Generation X. The younger generation is more comfortable saying something through a digital mechanism than even face to face.

Erik Qualman

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Each generation goes further than the generation preceding it because it stands on the shoulders of that generation. You will have opportunities beyond anything we've ever known.

Erik Qualman

Words: each, generation, goes, further, preceding, stands, shoulders, will, opportunities, beyond, anything, ever, known
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Music, Rock and Roll music especially, is such a generational thing. Each generation must have their own music, I had my own in my generation, you have yours, everyone I know has their own generation.

Erik Qualman

Words: music, rock, roll, especially, generational, thing, each, generation, must, own, know
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We got Martha Stewart legitimizing homemaking for her generation, and then there's this return to being interested in all things home, lifestyle, and food again. I think this generation is less about the frills and more about the flavor of things.

Erik Qualman

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It's a younger generation running the show, and I miss the generation we had in the '70s. They were really very honorable guys, like Neal Bogart and Bill Graham, people who will never be around again.

Erik Qualman

Words: younger, generation, running, show, miss, 70s, really, very, honorable, guys, Bogart, bill, Graham, people, will, never, around, again
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It took us a long time to find out that we had been lied to by our parents' generation. The moralities that were followed during our parents' generation were basically arbitrary. This caused a rift between the two generations, which was brought on by the beatniks.

Erik Qualman

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You will attract the younger generation and they might well prove tougher than the older generation. What we are trying to do is to look at the future and see what we can do to bring some stability back to people's lives.

Erik Qualman

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My idea is always to reach my generation. The wise writer writes for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterward.

Erik Qualman

Words: idea, reach, generation, wise, writer, writes, youth, own, critics, next, schoolmasters, ever, afterward
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We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority, to bind themselves, but none to bind the succeeding generation, more than the inhabitants of another country.

Erik Qualman

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It is pure illusion to think that an opinion that passes down from century to century, from generation to generation, may not be entirely false.

Erik Qualman

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This generation should entertain this generation. It's only fair. When I was a kid, I mowed the lawn. Now, somebody else's kid can mow the lawn.

Erik Qualman

Words: generation, entertain, fair, kid, mowed, lawn, now, somebody, mow
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The difference between my generation of actors and their generation is that they were bigger than life. We are not bigger than life.

Erik Qualman

Words: difference, between, generation, actors, bigger, life
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Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.

Erik Qualman

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The death tax destroys family businesses and stifles investment that leads to increases in jobs and personal income. As a result, 70 percent of family-owned businesses are not passed on to the next generation and 87 percent do not make it to the third generation.

Erik Qualman

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My parents gave up a lot to bring me up in the little house on the prairie, and I wasn't prepared to make those sacrifices, nor was the generation before me and the generation after.

Erik Qualman

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In the end, the American dream is not a sprint, or even a marathon, but a relay. Our families don't always cross the finish line in the span of one generation. But each generation passes on to the next the fruits of their labor.

Erik Qualman

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Hardly any generation wants to take the whole of the last generation, it just wants to take its best bits.

Erik Qualman

Words: hardly, any, generation, wants, take, whole, last, just, best, bits
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One thing that was passed on from generation to generation in my family, over seven generations in 200 years, was never give up. That's the way we live.

Erik Qualman

Words: one, thing, passed, generation, family, over, seven, generations, 200, years, never, give, way, live
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Thought once awakened does not again slumber; unfolds itself into a System of Thought; grows, in man after man, generation after generation, - till its full stature is reached, and such System of Thought can grow no farther, but must give place to another.

Erik Qualman

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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.

Erik Qualman

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