Generations Quotes

Never forget that your role as a leader is to be a steward for future generations.

The big stars in rap, they were too big, so when my rap generation started, it was about bringing you inside my apartment. It wasn't about being a rap star; it was about anything other than.

Some species increase, others diminish, and in a short space the generations of living creatures are changed and, like runners, pass on the torch of life.

What a tragedy it was that the only thing age could offer to youth was its own experience, and that the experiences of others were never profitable.

I'm speaking for all of us. I'm the spokesman for a generation.

I come from way north. We'd listen to radio shows all the time. I think I was the last generation, or pretty close to the last one, that grew up without TV.

I do think that evangelicals in general need to think seriously about how you pass on your faith across generations and over the long haul.

Rich People plan for three generations Poor people plan for Saturday night

The recent riots in France demonstrate the problem European countries face where second and third generation immigrants still do not consider themselves French, German, or English.

We learned in the university to consider Wordsworth and Keats as Romantics. They were only a generation apart, but Wordsworth didn't even read Keats's book when he gave him a copy.

The idea that success can happen overnight is crippling the financial future of generations. You have to work for it.

My family for several generations have been members of the Unitarian Church.

Let's bring back grandmothers! A real family consists of three generations. It's time Americans stopped worrying about interference and being a burden on the children and regrouped under one roof.

Paintings, like tombstones, will last a good five hundred years, well into twenty or thirty generations.

The true cook is the perfect blend, the only perfect blend, of artist and philosopher. He knows his worth: he holds in his palm the happiness of mankind, the welfare of generations yet unborn.

Lust is the cause of generation.

Five hundred and fifty generations have lived here. Only the stories we tell each other will create us as a true Canadian people.

Like some kind of particularly tenacious vampire the short story refuses to die, and seems at this point in time to be a wonderful length for our generation.

Led Zeppelin has been there through three generations of teenage angst. And there's a generation of kids now who won't know it, post-Linkin Park.

A generation ago [the Democratic Party] stood for progressive change. Now they defend every federal program as if each were sacred. They have become the most conservative force in American politics.

The right to have our environment protected for the benefit of present and future generations is our most important human right.

The conditions that direct the order of . . . the living world . . . are marked by their persistence in improving the birthright of successive generations.

I think music influences fashion and has done so for generations.

In general, everyone wants to work and work more. But in fact, when a young generation has sufficient capability then we should create conditions for them to work.

We are enmeshed in a lineage that came from somewhere and is going to make way for the next generation.

Is it possible to covet a much longer life for one's self and be as devoted to the well-being of the next generation? It's a long argument.

I refuse to condemn your generation and future generations to a planet that's beyond fixing.

It's the same thing now. When I go onstage the young people scream and holler as much as the older generation.

Violence against women is the single greatest human rights violation of our generation.

It changed me more than anything else. You don't want to get to that place where you're the adult and you're palpably in the next generation. And, this shoved me into that.

Every new generation must rewrite history in its own way.

I'M ANGRY because the stories of injustice that have been passed down for generations seem to be continuing before our very eyes.

No challenge poses a greater threat to future generations than climate change.

When I started Doctor Who Steven Moffat said, "That's it for the rest of your life." I'll be Doctor to a whole generation when they're 50.

I'm doing research for a large comic book on the Beat Generation guys - Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac and those guys

I always wanted to be a young mom, but generations of women have worked so hard so we can have a career and wait to have children. So I say carpe diem - take advantage of that.

Anyone of my generation who trusts government probably has an I.Q. that would make a good golf score.

The Gospel never grows old. It applies to every generation alike. We have to make a choice.

If future generations ask us what we are fighting for [in World War Two], we shall tell them the story of Lidice.

I don't need a successor, only willing hands to accept the torch for a new generation.

I didn't realize there are generations who do not know about the origins of film.

We are the first generation of human beings to have substantial insights into the origin of our cosmos and of human life in it.

This middle age thing is a little weird. Some friends and mentors are gone, and there's a very forward-looking new generation coming up behind me. So it's very much finding my own place.

The dissenting opinions of one generation become the prevailing interpretation of the next.

It's not good enough for us to have generations of kids that ... look forward to a better version of a cell phone with a video in it. They need to look forward to exploration.

There was no question of generation change or saying goodbye to the past or modernizing sloganising.

Mexico has lost an icon whose work has transcended generations and borders.

Every generation deals with the breaking down of its tradition, and I think that they rediscovered the film.

If anything is going to halt necessary investments in next generation networks it will be Congress dictating business models to companies.

To a Brit of my generation, one of the most objectionable things about [Margaret] Thatcher is her falsity. She is a total construct. For one thing, she had a made-over accent.