Generations Quotes

Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.

There are definite vocal trends for every generation as well as accents and I'm not talking about regionalisms.

We must oppose programs that would take food from the mouths of younger generations to buy prescription drugs for old people, and we must do it... for the children.

We are the generation that brought the bomb in. We have got to be the generation that should take it out.

Future generation is the most important thing.

The treasures of Cathay were never found. In this America, this wilderness Where the axe echoes with a lonely sound, The generations labor to possess And grave by grave we civilize the ground.

The nation is a community. Community of individuals, community of generations.

This generation may be the one that will face Armageddon.

Remorse is extremely useful for a generation which has in fact dirtied its hands but for the next generation you cannot ask, for instance, young Germans today to feel guilty about Hitlerism.

I remember the 1940s as a time when we were united in a way known only to that generation. We belonged to a common cause-the war.

For generations, even many otherwise decent white Southerners learned to despise black people.

The novelties of one generation are only the resuscitated fashions of the generation before last.

As patients and consumers, we are better informed today about our health care than any previous generation.

No generation can escape history.

Wild beasts and birds are by right not the property merely of the people today, but the property of the unborn generations, whose belongings we have no right to squander.

I think we've all had enough of Coltrane saxophonists. There's a case of someone ruining a generation of saxophonists, as Louis Armstrong may have ruined a generation of trumpeters.

The glory of each generation is to make its own precedents.

The fathers who contrived and passed the Consititution were wise in their generation; as time passes, we come more and more to realize their powers of divination.

The next generation will always surpass the previous one. It's one of the never-ending cycles in life.

All around us are the consequences of the most significant technological, and hence cultural, revolution in generations.

What would happen if even one generation were raised with respect and without violence?

We're genuinely happy if some musicians of this younger generation are influenced by our music, as we were ourselves influenced 10 years ago by older musicians.

What our Seventh Generation will have is a consequence of our actions today.

The New York City Ballet is obviously speaking to a whole new generation and bringing it the same wonder and beauty that it brought previous generations

We've got to stop the name-calling and we've got to stop looking at the next election. We've got to be focused on figuring out what we're doing for the next generation.

What I'm interested in doing after I get out of the presidency is to make sure that I'm working with that next generation so that they understand you can't just rely on inspiration.

I think I'm part of a generation of crime writers all of whom woke up independently and recoiled with horror at the fact that we'd chosen this very conservative genre.

We therefore must keep the faith, despite the defeat of policies, because men pass with their policies whilst generations follow each other.

It is worthwhile for anyone to have behind him a few generations of honest, hard-working ancestry.

The economy schoolchildren currently expect to live under and serve would not survive a generation of young people trained to think critically.

We are Scotland's independence generation. And our time is now

I wanna be a part of the generation that throws out money, throws out time, throws out all that we are against something bigger than ourselves.

The modern individual is committed to being successful, not to being a person. He belongs rightly to the action generation whose motto is do more but feel less.

A writer ... whittles at the words and phrases of today and makes of them forms to set the mind of tomorrow's generation.

But those guys (on 'Idol') will never be known for defining a generation of young suburbanites like (blink) did.

We all stand on the shoulders of the past generation.

There is a possibility that your ability as a player may well be analysed by future generations on your one day statistics. That's the day I dread most.

My sister and my brother, of whom I have not spoken before, were considerably older than I; it seemed almost as if we belonged to different generations.

History should not be written to make the present generation feel good but to remind us that human affairs are complicated.

This is the generation whose first cry of life was the Hungarian uprising.

Folklore used to be passed by word of mouth, from one generation to the next; thats what makes it folklore, as opposed to, say, history, which is written down and stored in an archive.

There is already a generation of European graduates who feel they have been robbed of the better future they were led to expect. They are members of a new class: the precariat.

I know of no system other than Hinduism under which a class has been set apart from generation to generation for the exclusive pursuit of divine knowledge and consigned to voluntary poverty.

I like to do theater and hopefully be effective. Most actors, at least contemporary actors of my generation, can't do it. They don't have the chops.

Imagine the amazing good fortune of the generation that gets to see the end of the world. This is as marvelous as being there in the beginning.

I pray every day for my little girls. It's hard out there for the younger generation.

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.

The Don Quixote of one generation may live to hear himself called the savior of society by the next.

Corporate tax dodging impacts us across generations and over time. It is corrosive. It is unethical. It is unsustainable.

I have lived through the best years of this country's history. The next generations are going to see war and social calamities. I am glad I don't have to live on into them.