Generations Quotes

What connects me so strongly to Israel is the fact that I'm second generation.

Hunting is a family thing for me, and it's a Texas thing. We have a lot of land in Texas that's been in our family for 12 generations.

Every generation proclaims that each must lead his own life, but seldom grants the subsequent generation the right to lead theirs.

I want to inspire the next generation. I want to be in mission control with someone younger than me wanting to break my record.

Every generation is obsessed with the decade before they were born.

Knowing who you are is good for one generation only. You haven't the foggiest idea where you stand now or who you are

It is probably fair to estimate the frequency of a majority of mutations, in higher organisms, between one in ten thousand and one in a million per gene per generation.

I don't think that comedians have a tradition of trashing the next generation.

Ours is a lost generation, it may be, but it is more blameless than those earlier generations.

I learned about the benefits and the vast limitations of such types of exploration, as did all my generation.

We should not weep or cry or be upset when we see the generations pass, because all are forms of the infinite creation. They are not real, they are not eternal.

The other day, someone called me this generation's Bruce Dern - I'd never thought of that, and frankly, I don't know enough of Bruce Dern's work to comment on it, though he is an incredible actor.

I still feel my generation is split on their attitudes.

Really, each era has its own false nostalgia. We all put a picket fence up around something. For my generation it was the '50s, and for other generations it will be something else.

Every generation must re-win its own freedoms.

Bribes are the glue that's kept teenagers and parents connected for generations

History can't tell us. Each generation must define itself.

It is the privilege and duty of the present generation to pass on to its successors, unimpaired, the heritage of liberty bequeathed to it by the founders of the Republic.

You can rave about Stravinsky without the slightest risk of being classified as a lunatic by the next generation .

If we turn our heads and look away and hope that it will all disappear then they will - all of them, an entire generation of people. And we will have only history left to judge us.

Preventing the new generation from changing in any deep way is what most societies require of their educators.

Securing freedom has been a singular commitment of American presidents and patriots in and out of government for generations. But its perpetual continuation is not guaranteed.

I come from a different generation from my Dad.

I came to this office to solve problems, and not pass them on to future Presidents and future generations.

The most important business of one generation is the raising of the next generation. Nothing else you do in life will be as deeply satisfying.

I was ruined before I got started. I say ruined, but I could say blessed; I was too far gone to believe in it. And I'm shocked how generation after generation repeats the behavior.

I'm in my 10th generation of TV critic now.

The minority of one generation is usually the majority of the next.

A creator is so completely contemporary that he has the appearance of being ahead of his generation.

each generation has something different at which they are all looking.

F. Scott Fitzgerald is the first of the last generation.

The prophet and the quack are alike admired for a generation, and admired for the wrong reasons.

[Marxism will] in a generation or so [go] into the limbo of most heresies, but meanwhile it will have poisoned the Russian Revolution.

Each generation is converted by the saint who contradicts it most.

Nature is where I feel most comfortable; it's where I find my balance. I would like my kids and all future generations to have the chance to experience nature as I did.

A lot of my generation are living out the un-lived lives of our mothers.

One act of violence takes four generations to heal.

I think if we could raise one generation of kids without violence and shaming, we don't know what might be possible.

To save a girl is to save generations!

We recognize the universal power of music to touch the hearts of men and women everywhere and in all generations-to inspire and encourage, to sustain and lift, to comfort and bring peace.

I come from the highest class of all. I am a third-generation celebrity.

I think it jumps generations. You get a screwball in one, and then the next one is straight, then you get a screwball. My grandmother was goofy, my mother was straight.

The problem with legalization is we already have a dependent generation that's subsidized to oblivion. And will legal pot somehow slice another sliver of the population off of the productive world?

I'm afraid you gave up the right to pontificate on social mobility when you abolished educational maintenance allowance [EMA], trebled tuition fees and betrayed a generation of young people.

We seek a peaceful world, a prosperous world, a free world, a world of good neighbors, living on terms of equality and mutual respect, as Canada and the United States have lived for generations.

The thing is, our generation, we fight every day to get through life.

For so many generations, a woman's only career path was to marry well and to marry up. Those days have changed.

There is a wealth of twentieth century music that is being re-discovered by a generation that hasnt heard it.

Woe be to the generation that lets any higher faculty in its midst go unemployed.

One generation abandons the enterprises of another like stranded vessels.