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Lost Generation Quotes

Having recorded his first album, ‘Tapestry,’ in 1969, in Berkeley, California, during the student riots, McLean, a native New Yorker, became a kind of weather vane for what he called the ‘generation lost in space.’ Picture Quote #1

What has gone catastrophically wrong in England and the States is that for 30 years we’ve lost the ability to talk about the state in positive terms. We’ve raised a generation or two of young people who don’t think to ask, ‘What can the state do that is good?’ Picture Quote #1

Successive generations of middle-class parents used to foist their own favourite books on their children. But some time in the late Eighties it began to wane - not because children had lost interest in adorable animals but because most of it was available on useful, pacifying video Picture Quote #1

Food became for me a way of becoming self-sufficient with my hands, to regain manual literacy, which I think has been lost on our generation and certainly younger generations. Very few people can actually make things with their hands and do things with their hands Picture Quote #1

Gertrude Stein did us the most harm when she said, ‘You’re all a lost generation.’ That got around to certain people and we all said, ‘Whee! We’re lost Picture Quote #1

The Jewish festival of freedom is the oldest continuously observed religious ritual in the world. Across the centuries, Passover has never lost its power to inspire the imagination of successive generations of Jews with its annually re-enacted drama of slavery and liberation Picture Quote #1

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John Clellon Holmes... and I were sitting around trying to think up the meaning of the Lost Generation and the subsequent existentialism and I said ‘You know John, this is really a beat generation’ and he leapt up and said, ‘That’s it, that’s right!’ Picture Quote #1

You are all a lost generation Picture Quote #1

Britain still has the most reliably beautiful countryside of anywhere in the world. I would hate to be part of the generation that allowed that to be lost Picture Quote #1

The flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation. Neither are they transmitted by book learning Picture Quote #1

Let us become the first generation to decide to be the last that sees empty classrooms, lost childhoods and wasted potential Picture Quote #1

What I tell these young people is, the world is not as dangerous as the older generation would like you to believe. Anyone I know who has ever taken a risk and lost a job has ended up getting a better one two years later Picture Quote #1

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Ours is a lost generation, it may be, but it is more blameless than those earlier generations Picture Quote #1

Say a prayer for the lost generation, who spin the wheel out of desperation Picture Quote #1

Where else? I belong to a lost generation and am comfortable only in the company of others who are lost and lonely Picture Quote #1

All of you young people who served in the war. You are a lost generation... You have no respect for anything. You drink yourselves to death Picture Quote #1

That is what you are. That’s what you all are... All of you young people who served in the war. You are a lost generation Picture Quote #1

Perhaps every generation thinks of itself as a lost generation and perhaps every generation is right Picture Quote #1

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After 1929, so many people had been traumatized by the stock market crash that there was a lost generation Picture Quote #1

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Having recorded his first album, ‘Tapestry,’ in 1969, in Berkeley, California, during the student riots, McLean, a native New Yorker, became a kind of weather vane for what he called the ‘generation lost in space.’ (Lost Generation Quotes) What has gone catastrophically wrong in England and the States is that for 30 years we’ve lost the ability to talk about the state in positive terms. We’ve raised a generation or two of young people who don’t think to ask, ‘What can the state do that is good?’ (Lost Generation Quotes) Successive generations of middle-class parents used to foist their own favourite books on their children. But some time in the late Eighties it began to wane - not because children had lost interest in adorable animals but because most of it was available on useful, pacifying video (Lost Generation Quotes) Food became for me a way of becoming self-sufficient with my hands, to regain manual literacy, which I think has been lost on our generation and certainly younger generations. Very few people can actually make things with their hands and do things with their hands (Lost Generation Quotes) Gertrude Stein did us the most harm when she said, ‘You’re all a lost generation.’ That got around to certain people and we all said, ‘Whee! We’re lost (Lost Generation Quotes) The Jewish festival of freedom is the oldest continuously observed religious ritual in the world. Across the centuries, Passover has never lost its power to inspire the imagination of successive generations of Jews with its annually re-enacted drama of slavery and liberation (Lost Generation Quotes) John Clellon Holmes... and I were sitting around trying to think up the meaning of the Lost Generation and the subsequent existentialism and I said ‘You know John, this is really a beat generation’ and he leapt up and said, ‘That’s it, that’s right!’ (Lost Generation Quotes) You are all a lost generation (Lost Generation Quotes) Britain still has the most reliably beautiful countryside of anywhere in the world. I would hate to be part of the generation that allowed that to be lost (Lost Generation Quotes) The flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation. Neither are they transmitted by book learning (Lost Generation Quotes) Let us become the first generation to decide to be the last that sees empty classrooms, lost childhoods and wasted potential (Lost Generation Quotes) What I tell these young people is, the world is not as dangerous as the older generation would like you to believe. Anyone I know who has ever taken a risk and lost a job has ended up getting a better one two years later (Lost Generation Quotes) Ours is a lost generation, it may be, but it is more blameless than those earlier generations (Lost Generation Quotes) Say a prayer for the lost generation, who spin the wheel out of desperation (Lost Generation Quotes) Where else? I belong to a lost generation and am comfortable only in the company of others who are lost and lonely (Lost Generation Quotes) All of you young people who served in the war. You are a lost generation... You have no respect for anything. You drink yourselves to death (Lost Generation Quotes) That is what you are. That’s what you all are... All of you young people who served in the war. You are a lost generation (Lost Generation Quotes) Perhaps every generation thinks of itself as a lost generation and perhaps every generation is right (Lost Generation Quotes) After 1929, so many people had been traumatized by the stock market crash that there was a lost generation (Lost Generation Quotes)