Generations Quotes

In science, moreover, the work of the individual is so bound up with that of his scientific predecessors and contemporaries that it appears almost as an impersonal product of his generation.

O, Youth: Do you know that yours is not the first generation to yearn for a life full of beauty and freedom?

One generation might like you, then 15 years later the next is responding to somebody else.

I wanted to work with Cate Blanchett. She is one of the five greatest movie actresses of her generation.

By looking at climate change as a clean energy generation problem, we're setting ourselves up not to solve it.

I think the new generations in America, the America's youth, no longer care about Vietnam. They don't want to hear any more about it.

You know, I'm part of that first MTV generation.

In the same way that Shakespeare was writing very much for his time, he was also unearthing observations that would last for generations beyond him.

Shakespeare is the Joss Whedon of his generation.

Each generation criticizes the unconscious assumptions made by its parent. It may assent to them, but it brings them out in the open.

I came from a generation of actors for whom TV was taboo.

It would show hugely if I didn't want to be somewhere. Doing what you want to do can only generate good energy.

A chaste generation would restore Paradise.

A man must be sacrificed now and again to provide for the next generation of men.

As much as younger women are infused with a greater sense of possibility than most women of preceding generations, as a generation we are generally politically disengaged.

A whole generation of writers dined out on the dialectic between original cultures and their culture by "progress.

The minds of different generations are as impenetrable one by the other as are the monads of Leibniz.

Every generation is born into, for the most part, a heterosexual family.

There have been great champions in every generation.

I think there will always be a particular generation of actors who think that they're going to be replaced by robots. But certainly the emerging actors understand that that's part of the craft.

I'm getting more towards that point where I'm ready to kind of pass the torch on and see the next generation succeed behind me.

I think the leadership of a company should encourage the next generation not just to follow, but to overtake.

In literary history, generation follows generation in a rage.

I'm of a generation that romanticizes and maybe even over-romanticized things that were painful, that hurt others. I feel that. But I don't know if I have any regrets.

My parents' generation's benchmark was simple: Fat Equals Bad.

The next generation will remake the world in a way that allows us to live in a more sustainable way, both personally and globally.

I'm sure there were plenty of loving, attentive mothers in the 'me generation,' but none of them lived at my house.

History had a slow pulse; man counted in years, history in generations

We know that virtue does not matter to history, and that crimes remain unpunished; but that every error had its consequences and venges itself unto the seventh generation.

If I want to build wealth to transfer to the next generation, I can let it grow on a tax-free basis.

Every generation of children has its private hero.

I think with vampires, you can't really go wrong. For generations, vampires have been a hit because they're unobtainable, mysterious, sensual, dangerous, kind of sexy.

Have we forgotten about the children, and thus forsaken the next generation?

Why are the architects of the family-values agenda so eager to punish into the next generation? What is being served by seeking, quite literally, a tooth for a tooth?

This union may never be perfect, but generation after generation has shown that it can always be perfected.

We can lead this world and make it safer and more secure for our children and our grandchildren, for generations to come.

[The generation engaged, inspired, worked for change] that generation, it's coming. They're not the majority yet but they're gonna be the majority soon.

There's a whole generation coming up behind us that was engaged, inspired, worked for change during the course of my presidency, saw what was possible.

The job is never done and every generation has to fight again.

Ineluctably, the insults inflicted in one war call forth new wars of retaliation, which may be waged within months of the original conflict or generations later.

Every generation reinvents the wheel - and in the process it often adds to rather than subtracts from a woman's burdens.

Things which matter cost money, and we've got to spend the money if we do not want to have generations of parasites rather than generations of productive citizens.

The last generation's worst fears became the next one's B-grade entertainment.

Every ten years there is a new generation of actors.

Art is the signature of a generation; artists have a way of defining the times.

Remote from human passions, remote even from the pitiful facts of nature, the generations have gradually created an ordered cosmos [mathematics], where pure thought can dwell in its natural home.

A generation educated in fearless freedom will have wider and bolder hopes than are possible to us

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.

NY is the city it is today in part because of the contributions from generations of artistic visionaries

Until it's understood to involve justice for those in poverty, a future for generations yet unborn, and a commitment to the rest of creation, it's unlikely we'll be able to overcome the status quo.