A Quote by Cleve Jones

I don't blame younger generations for their lack of awareness. Americans in general are not interested in history.

Cleve Jones

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Awareness Blame General Generations History Interested Lack Not Interested Younger Younger Generation

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Cleve Jones
American - Activist
Born: October 11, 1954

Our nation is built upon a history of immigration, dating back to our first pioneers, the Pilgrims. For more than three centuries, we have welcomed generations of immigrants to our melting pot of hyphenated America: British-Americans; Italian-Americans; Irish-Americans; Jewish-Americans; Mexican-Americans; Chinese-Americans; Indian-Americans.

Ami Bera

I've always been interested in the history of the West, our country and particularly as it relates to the Native Americans - the original Americans.

Beau Bridges

Our country has a rich history and so diversified, which should be acknowledged by the younger generations.

Jubin Nautiyal

There's a general intuition around the nonprofit world these days that younger generations are less likely to join. But I have found in my research that that's quite wrong.

Arthur C. Brooks

I think Americans suffer for their lack of travel, awareness of the world. It has horribly warped our sense of place in the scheme of things.

Henry Rollins

Americans' lack of passion for history is well known. History may not quite be bunk, as Henry Ford suggested, but there's no denying that, as a people, we sustain a passionate concentration on the present and the future.

Larry McMurtry

I've always been so interested in personal history. I'm very fascinated by my parents' and my grandparents' generations. I seem to think that they had a resilience and an integrity that may be somewhat deficient in my own generation, and in subsequent generations as well, because America has been rather easy to live in since the Depression.

Joyce Carol Oates

When I was a kid, I thought history was the most boring subject of all. I shouldn't blame my teachers; I should blame me, but I'll blame them.

Dave Barry

Many Americans remain very interested in royal goings-on in general, and not just because of their soap-opera appeal. To a greater degree than any other polity, Britain functions as Americans' defining 'other.'

Linda Colley

Older generations are living proof that younger generations can survive their lunacy.

Cullen Hightower

As the U.S. ambassador to Japan, I see this challenge of our younger generations not knowing each other as well as the prior generations.

John Roos

When you're a mayor and you have a problem you blame the provincial government. If you are provincial government and you have a problem you blame the federal government. We don't blame the Queen any more, so once in a while we might blame the Americans.

Jean Chretien

I like whimsy and satire, and that's what Americans like so much about Brits. We bring subtlety and sense of humor that you sometimes lack. We have a very long history of importing Brits like Christopher Hitchens who are better at it than Americans are.

Milo Yiannopoulos

I'm not interested in younger men for the same reason most women aren't interested in younger men; I don't have time to make an extra packed lunch every morning. Please. I'm busy enough already.

Katherine Ryan

In times of war, it is often best to look to our history to see how past generations of Americans dealt with the loss of their countrymen in just causes.