Generations Quotes

Even if Bill McKibben were to become dictator, future generations would suffer because of the carbon we had already emitted.

For many Native Americans across the land, the name of the Washington football team is a deeply personal reminder of a legacy of racism and generations of pain.

I'm of the generation of kids where the G.I. Joe's developed Kung Fu Grip right around the same time I did.

We did really well for a generation after 1989 and the fall of communism. Our liberal values expanded in the world, our prosperity expanded.

I was a TV junkie as a kid. I am the Sesame Street generation.

To me the central premise is about friendships within people of different generations when you take out the idea how age creates a barrier - to me, that's what the show is about at it's core.

I'm not the comic of the generation, I'm not even the funniest guy in my family.

My generation is under-entertained.

Those cultural wars, Sexual Revolution issues are fading from the scene, and the coming generation has basically settled them.

The world economy is more stable than for a generation ... Our hugely sophisticated financial markets match funds with ideas better than ever before.

Keep in mind that every single generation before us has worked under the assumption that they possessed all the major tools for understanding the universe, and they were all wrong, without exception.

No ancient story, not even Homer's Iliad or Odyssey, has remained as popular through the course of time. The story of Rama appears as old as civilization and has a fresh appeal for every generation.

My studio is a laptop. Everybody I work with is the same. We make computer music, we're the laptop generation.

It's hard for a Jew of my generation, an American Jew, who is philo-Zionistic, not to romanticize Israel.

Each generation, we peel back biases that have blinded those before us. The more we know about the past enables us to ask richer and more provocative questions about who we are today.

Torturous advances won over generations can be lost by a single stroke of a myopic president's pen or a vainglorious general's sword.

One generation's idea of fast pace might be different from a later generation's.

Viola [Davis] is one of the great actors of her generation. She has one of these moments in the theater that I don't even know how to describe.

I was the only male of the Arnaz family in my generation.

One of the greatest gifts we can give to another generation is our experience, our wisdom.

It's always been the children who have saved the universe from the previous generation and remade the universe in their own image.

My generation of director has no illusions that we are going to be fed and cared for by subsidized theater in America.

I get little kids who recognize me from 'Mary Poppins,' and it just delights me because it's our third generation.

Barack Obama is the most antibusiness president in a generation, perhaps in American history.

Mathematics is a vast adventure; its history reflects some of the noblest thoughts of countless generations.

He doesn't translate well into our generation.

German people get very uptight if you mention World War II. Germans today feel that what's past is past, new generations don't really remember it.

I have always been able to move on musically. I've always been able to make all generations dance and love.

For she was of that generation who, having found nothing in religion, had formed themselves through literature.

How can I be a part of the 1960s generation when I don't even remember any of it?

Discussions of generations only go downhill. There's no point in having them.

We're able to influence younger generations on design and art. They might not have realized they were an artist.

I grew up on Nickelodeon.On All That and Are You Afraid of the Dark, and Salute Your Shorts and Rocco's Modern Life and all that. That was my generation.

That definitely I feel is part of my generation: social networking, communication over the Internet, whether it's Skype or IRC or some form of text-based chat, text messaging.

In the end ... success or failure will come down to an ethical decision, one on which those now living will be judged for generations to come.

We have multi-generations coming to our show.

The world is no longer closed to us in the way it was in the past - present generations have unparalleled access to pretty much all corners of the globe.

[W]ords are fine, but it has to be what a generation reads into those words.

The work of a generation is beginning here, with your hearings, and you have the full measure of my gratitude and support.

It takes more than a few generations to change a human nation. Those who are intent to bring (change) will do so.

The books I have read were composed by generations of fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, teachers and disciples. I am the sum total of their experiences, and so are you.

The very worst impulses of humankind can survive generations, centuries, even millennia. And the best of our individual efforts can die with us at the end of a single lifetime.

Youth is always an enemy to the old.

We all have an interest, and a duty to future generations, to ensure that the benefits of mobility that we now take for granted, do not place an intolerable burden on our environment

each age stands on the shoulders of the one that has gone before, and out of the revolt of the old is fashioned the new.

So much as I enjoy big novels of epic sweep, I often find, say, if they follow several generations, by the third generation, I'm not caring about the people anymore.

it takes as long as three generations of hard work, three generations of sacrifice to correct the wrong!

Every kid Grade 6 and up carries a cellphone - with that they can access the world. They are the most connected, aware generation that's ever existed.

My generation of young female writers discovered that we could dictate the form and content of our own fiction.

You are all a lost generation. [with credit to Gertrude Stein]