Generations Quotes

I like to see what future generations are thinking about.

I look at other members of my generation who have basically done one thing, and one thing well, and have been handsomely rewarded for it.

It's sometimes comical to hear the younger generation ask their peers to repeat themselves.

The 2011 riots in England, which left five dead and caused more than $300 million in property damage, were fueled by a generation of young Brits who grew up without ever hearing the word No.

As a Green, my goal is to put a smile on the face of the coming generations.

We are a generation of men raised by women. I'm beginning to wonder if another woman is what we really need.

With "Taipei" Tao Lin becomes the most interesting prose stylist of his generation...

The character of a generation is moulded by personal character.

I want to reach a new generation. That's why I am Twittering now. I have a BlackBerry, an iPhone and a Mac.

As far as I know, we have never before decided to fight a war with borrowed money and ask generations that come after us to pay for it.

I come from an immigrant culture. I'm only a couple of generations away from having been a servant girl myself.

Everyone of my generation who preached free love is responsible for AIDS.

Ours is the first generation that has grown up with science-fiction ideas.

We don't need to be feminist in my generation.

We have been through four and five generations of technology since the PATRIOT Act.

This generation I'm a member of, we're sort of infected by this idea that you had to make the world a better place.

The challenge of today's generation of architects is the environment.

It is very common with artists who are of a generation that has already gone by to get overly concerned with, Oh my God I have to sell to the younger generation.

I feel like I'm a product of this generation where everybody listens to charts with diverse music.

But when I start to kiss someone - lust is the easiest emotion to generate.

I guess there was some Casper guy, like, 10 generations ago who I'm named after. I'm the 11th. My son is Casper the XII.

Just after the war, the liberation of 1945, [Albert] Camus was well known, well loved by [Jean-Paul ] Sartre and all the intellectuals of that generation.

The problems that agitate one generation are exstinguished for the next, not because they have been solved but because the general lack of interest sweeps them away.

A work settles nothing, just as the labor of a whole generation settles nothing. Sons, and the morrow, always start afresh.

Generations do not age. Every youth of any period, any civilization, has the same possibilities as always.

I come from a long line of generations!

Civilization could not exist until there was written language, because without written language no generation could bequeath to succeeding generations anything but its simpler findings.

Each generation of pilots hopes that they will leave their profession better off than they found it.

I think all of us are intrigued to imagine what we as individuals would become, if we were ever tested as hard as that golden generation was.

Like lycanthropy, the nerd gene can skip a generation. My maternal grandfather was a technophile.

I think everybody in my generation, we wanted to be Elvis.

To death we owe our life; the passing of one generation opens a way for another.

The message "Your body isn't good enough" translates in a little girls mind to "YOU aren't good enough." This becomes a core belief that gets passed on to the next generation.

It's really vital to have rock music because it connects the generations. It's important in that way.

I took on the sins of everybody, of a generation, really.

We lost so many talented artists and writers from the generations before ours that we're really lacking older figureheads.

Honestly, in retrospect, I would wish for future generations to have the ability to have a coming out process that was less alcohol-soaked than mine was.

We're the first generation that doesn't need to be afraid of the media. We will become the media

Every generation is more influenced by technology, which is always changing faster.

It's possible for me to imagine a generation of people maybe two generations removed from you who might decide that we have an adversarial relationship with technology.

Katherine Kenton remains among the generation of women who feel that the most sincere form of flattery is the male erection.

The poets of each generation seldom sing a new song. They turn to themes men always have loved, and sing them in the mode of their times.

It is our misfortune, as a historical generation, to live through the largest expansion in expressive capability in human history, a misfortune because abundance breaks more things than scarcity.

The chain of life runs smoothly from one generation to the next and none of the links stand out except here and there a link one sees by accident.

You want to teach the next generation so they can learn a little bit faster and a little bit more so everything becomes that much better.

History should be about every generation's will to power.

Sometimes to think about why some institutions are stable, it's interesting to go one generation back and look at the author of that stability.

Drew Dellinger is one of the most creative, courageous and prophetic poets of his generation. I love his spirit. Don't miss him!

The Brangwens had lived for generations on the Marsh Farm, in the meadows where the Erewash twisted sluggishly through alder trees, separating Derbyshire from Nottinghamshire.

We had a rule in Tibet that anyone proposing a new invention had to guarentee that it was beneficial, or at least harmless, for seven generations of humans before it could be adopted.