Generations Quotes

The generation of youth in the early 21st century has no way of grasping if they will ever be free from the gnawing sense of the transience, indefiniteness, and provisional nature of any settlement.

Really, the values under which my generation was raised in the '50s were immigrant values even though we weren't immigrants. The greatest thing you could be was a college-educated Negro.

Why does every generation have to think that he lives in the period with the greatest turbulence?

There is a whole other generation that knows me from "Arrested Development" "Scream" and, of course, "Happy Days."

Through its interpretation of the Constitution, the Supreme Court hugely shapes the fabric of our society for us and for future generations.

Truly every generation discovers the world all new again and knows it can improve it.

Time is made up of various ages; and each thinks its own a novelty.

For what's the point of breeding children, if each generation does not improve on what went before.

When I began to read as an adult, my first big enthusiasm was Evelyn Waugh. I read almost exclusively novelists of a generation back. I did the Russians, then I started getting more up to date.

I think the monarchy today is. . . mildly interesting and largely harmless. I can't find I can get very heated about it. In the next couple of generations, it is bound to go.

Everything that you are taking advantage of, inventing and using, is still a generation or two behind when it comes to the U.S. government.

This is a very connected, tolerant, creative generation, but a lot of them feel really constrained because they've got this big debt.

Senator Kennedy inspired so many with his decades of service, so I can't think of a more fitting tribute then working to educate and motivate future generations of citizens and public servants alike.

Believe it, future generations.

This is the first generation in all of recorded history that can do something about the scourge of poverty. We have the means to do it. We can banish hunger from the face of the earth.

Given that we are all descended from Adam and Eve, genetic defects as a result of intra-family marriage would not begin to crop up until after the first few dozen generations.

I'm the most successful person in my generation of family members, and that sucks.

I'm not good at texting because I'm an older generation, old school. And nobody ever listens to the answering machine anymore. It's terrible.

When you believe you have a future, you think in terms of generations and years. When you do not, you live not just by the day — but by the minute.

You've got first-generation Americans here who are going to be poorer than their parents. That's never happened in the States before, and it's going to have massive social repercussions here.

My generation of writers has been prone to premature illness and death, especially the women. When Black male writers meet it's like a session of the American Diabetic Association.

For generations comedians have made jokes about Scots-Irish in the South inter-breeding. "I am my own grandpa" and all that stuff; you know, because they all were marrying their first cousins.

A Century of Wisdom is universal and will enrich readers for generations to come.

Formation of a new race takes place when, over several generations, individuals in one group reproduce more frequently among themselves than they do with individuals in other groups.

I had no new ideas on the physics we might learn, and I could not compete with the younger generation.

The 2012 London Olympic Games fostered a generation of hope. I witnessed women participating for the very first time, representing every nation.

The ukulele has always appealed to the older generation.

The story of dance in the Western world is as much an alternative vision of the events of history as is the folk history told for generations by primal people.

It seems to be typical of life in America ... that the second generation has no time to talk to the first.

War is devastating, and it leaves its scars for generations.

A politician thinks about the next elections - the statesman thinks about the next generations.

Fairytales are stories that span every generation and they've been around for a long time.

I don't agree with the whole 'my mother's my friend' approach, because you're their mum and there has to be a difference between the generations.

Tina Fey is part of a generation of women who have changed the face of comedy at 'Second City,' 'SNL,' in sitcoms and in film.

Librarians are teaching the next generation how to use digital media responsibly.

Doesn't every generation feel like the one that's coming up behind them doesn't know how to grow up? I'm not sure if we're progressively getting worse or if your perspective shifts.

Transferring successfully to the next generation means producing work that's as good as or better than the work of the first generation that founded the agency.

I love dancing in general and making girls dance. My generation doesn't do it enough.

Ah! How I hate the crimes of the new generation: they are dry and sterile as darnel.

[The Internet generation is] not fighting that battle about who gets to speak; they all get to speak.

Every generation has their favorite Spider-Man television show.

We are facing a generation of young singers who are much more diminutive in their approach to singing.

Part of what I'm doing with generations is that I try to express in my work pieces of my growing up years that I can look back on with great fondness - specifically, a sense of family.

In one generation, my family went from extermination simply because of how they pray to God to this ridiculously privileged life I live today. So how can I not love America?

[Invading Iraq] would create generations that hated the USA.

Everybody feels like they need a photograph because we're in a generation where, if you don't document it, it didn't occur. So you've got to stop and take a picture with everybody.

Women hand sight down through the generations. Mother to daughter.

We call for a bailout for an entire generation that is basically held hostage by unpayable student-loan debt.

I get to be one of the torch-bearers for a new generation.

I grew up watching all the great Disney animated films and to be able to carry that torch and know that I'm contributing to the same magic and wonder for a whole new generation is a great thing.