Generations Quotes
Don't listen to the cynics. They were wrong about my generation and they were wrong about yours.
The transmission of values from one generation to the next is the single most important task of the society. ...What am I doing to shape the values of the society?
For with all our pretension to enlightenment, are we not now a talking, desultory, rather than a meditative generation?
Young people in my generation were sort of in lockstep, and it wasn't just the '40s, either. In the '30s and in the '50s it was the same. No one ever dropped out unless he got sick or got kicked out.
Now all of us in our thirties are the first generation that get to say, "I don't know how I feel about that system, I don't know if I want kids, I don't know if I want to get married."
I have a lot of heroes. I don't think people give enough of a tribute to their mentors. They try to act like they're spontaneous generations - they are faking liars.
I believe it is my obligation to tell the story of the civil rights movement to the next generation.
If we can ... get them to understand that saying 'no' to drugs is rebelling against their parents and the generations of the past, we'd make it an enormous success.
The President says, "We are in the fight for a way of life. This is the greatest battle of our generation, and of the generations to come."
A whole generation was raised to learn about comedy from The Simpsons. To get to be in a booth with Homer and Marge and be in Springfield - it was unimaginable the emotions that I felt.
It only takes twenty generations of selective breeding to create large differences or appearance and behavior in other mammals.
I'm not too embarrassed to say I'm the definition of the target audience. This is my generation, the one of exalting music in album form.
We eat as sons and daughters, as families, as communities, as generations, as nations, and increasingly as a globe. We can't stop our eating from radiating influence even if we want to.
On the floor, and hanging on to the bar, squatted an old man, immobile as an object. His years had reduced and polished him as water does a stone or the generations of men do a sentence.
No span of steel will tolerate...neglect. But if service by generations who use it and spared manmade hazards, such as war, it should have life without end.
We had the great good fortune and shortcomings of character that marked every generation that had never seen war.
There is the expectation that a younger generation has the opportunity to redeem the crimes and failings of their elders and would have the strength and idealism to do so.
It was a damned good thing men couldn’t have children. Gregory took no shame in admitting that the human race would have died out generations earlier.
Donald Trump really has, truly has motivated the Latino community more than any other presidential candidate, I think, in generations, and motivated them in a negative way.
There are generations of people who have never seen a big plate painting in person. And they don't know what the hell they look like, they don't know what it feels like to stand in a room with them.
The generation of women who came before us did much of our shouting. They laid the groundwork and now we can be calm and constant and steady.
I was in that generation where I was torn if you should put it on the web because you're giving it away for free but you also want people to see your work.
The first novel that I wrote was because I was having very interesting sorts of experiences, for Indians of my generation.
What I learned in my time isn't necessarily being taught now, and I'd like to help impart that knowledge to a new generation of players.
I'm from a generation of fantastic actresses. It's a big pool of really wonderful actresses, and so many of them we never even get to see on the screen anymore.
I suppose my biggest concern would be if the planet is going to be in good enough shape for the next generation to have the privileges that we've had.
There are generations of women who left the workforce to be moms, and their kids grow up, and they think, "Well, what now?"
I think I take my style from all walks of life, and all generations and decades of life as well. I love mixing '50s with '80s and classic with punk.
My dad was a doctor and surgeon. He was the fifth generation of his family to become a doctor.
It is hard to compare over generations. I think a lot of the top talent is choosing other fields. We look pretty hard - we put a lot of time and effort into finding talent.
We know that the next several generations need a better world to live in, which can only be a post-Obama World.
I think my generation has grown up knowing that you don't pay attention to trolls because trollin's what they do.
This younger generation that's around, that's tweeting, Facebooking and Vine-ing, the fans appreciate that because they feel like they can get to you.
I think every entrepreneur in Canada owes the next generation a road map of how to do it again.
If you have done well in whatever business you are in, it is your duty to send the elevator back down and try to help bring up the next generation of undiscovered talent.
I have had much to learn from Sweden's poetry and, more especially, from her lyrics of the last generation.
Tony Blair is a very able politician; he's perhaps one of the best of his generation. He made a major contribution in many areas, but in Iraq I believe he got it wrong. He got it wrong.
This is what happens under capitalism - as long as corporations and the super rich own the economy and the politicians, every new generation has to fight hard just to defend itself.
To a new generation of butterflies, hopefully less stupid than last. Maybe they were burgeoning even now in fat little cocoons. Or maybe not.
What is well rooted cannot be pulled up. What is firmly grasped will not slip loose. It will be honoured from generation to generation.
It is clear that our society can improve only if the next generation is given the chance, through loving and intelligent education, to be better developed than the present one.