Generations Quotes

Every generation welcomes the pirates from the last.

This nation is never finished. It has to be re-created in each generation.

The problem with the term "The New Fiction" is that the fiction will inevitably be old. The same could have been said about the work of any generation of writers.

I'm part of that generation that grew up watching TV, and being an actor was all about being on TV or being in films.

Schooling, by definition, must be conservative. It is naturally dependent on an older generation’s level of knowledge and sense of values.

I knew I could never match my father as a violinist, and there were already four generations of outstanding cellists in the family.

Of all the poetry written in our generation, Frost's is most likely to stand the test of time

In its revolt against congestion and sordor, a space-hungry generation has, I fear, developed eyes that are bigger than its stomach.

The ideal visions of one age eventually are seen as its excesses by the next.

I love creating stories, dreaming up characters and breathing life into them. From several generations of Irish storytellers, I think that's what I was born to do.

I'm 33, my generation, when I was young, we'd go out into the woods for the entire day and come back for dinner. I was definitely a kid of the '80s, who was out and about.

I don't know what you mean when you say 'the whole world' or 'generations before him.'I thought there was only us. I thought there was only now.

I write whatever shows up. That's good enough for me. I'm part of the first generation that wants to still do original material and not tour around as an oldies act.

I grew up in a generation that had exponential technological advances.

Now we are expected to be as wise as men who have had generations of all the help there is, and we scarcely anything.

Adolescents are the bearers of cultural renewal, those cycles of generation and regeneration that link our limited individual destinies with the destiny of the species.

You may complete as many generations as you please during your life; none the less will that everlasting death await you.

Walter's eyes were very wonderful. All the joy and sorrow and laughter and loyalty and aspirations of many generations lying under the sod looked out of their dark-gray depths.

The 2 timeless drivers that underpin the behavior of every generation: the need to belong and the need to be significant. The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.

I think I'm the most positive guy still going in my generation, and I'm out there to prove that.

If we become tow people-the suburban affluent and the urban poor, each filled with mistrust and fear of the other-then we shall effectively cripple each generation to come.

If you narrow the playing field, the next generation has less to put out, to eat and regenerate from.

I do think that one needs to have respect for people who are older. And I really do love the idea that one can respect generations.

So there really was a whole series of things that took the women of my generation a little bit of time to push forward.

I did go to Wellesley, a women's college. And I am of a kind of strange generation which is transitional in terms of women who wanted to go out and get jobs.

Ensuring a healthy future means investing in the generation who will carry that future.

Over many generations, fortunes in the business world were made through buying and selling products in physical stores. Internet fortunes have been made buying and selling products online.

I am living with a rising generation which talks like people coming out of ether.

We know of no culture that has said, articulately, that there is no difference between men and women except in the way they contribute to the creation of the next generation.

every generation has a conceit of itself which elevates it, in its own opinion, above that which comes after it.

No generation has a free hold on this earth. All we have is a life tenancy-with a full repairing lease.

Not to know what happened before you were born is always to remain a child. For what is a man’s life if it is not linked with the life of future generations by memories of the past?

Generation after generation can't just be loaded with more and more nuclear weapons and not ultimately dance to that music.

My story has been the story of my generation.

Everyone archetypally is a parent to future generations.

I do think that every generation has its unique story.

I had an experience that probably is shared by many parents. When my daughter was born, I felt viscerally connected to generations before and after me in a way that took me by surprise.

Most of us have achieved levels of affluence and comfort unthought of two generations ago. We've never had it so good, most of us. Nor have we ever complained so bitterly about our problems.

Mr. Bush is flaky, incompetent, and the most dangerous American president in a generation.

I joined the Safe Climate Caucus because I believe in leaving a safer planet for future generations.

Art is how a culture records its life, how it poses questions for the next generation and how it will be remembered.

The meaning of experience is typically one generation behind the experience. The content of new situations, both private and corporate, is typically the preceding situation.

A lot of people in this country right now are living with multiple generations under one roof, struggling to make ends meet.

We all grow on somebody's grave.

One life stamps and influences another, which in turn stamps and influences another, on and on, until the soul of human experience breathes on in generations we'll never meet.

When you save a girl, you save generations

After days and nights of incredible labor and fatigue, I succeeded in discovering the cause of generation and life. Nay, more, I became myself capable of bestowing animation upon lifeless matter.

This generation is frightened of ideas, or at least it's being suppressed.

Tax reform is a once-in-a-generation opportunity.

Listen carefully to what country people call mother wit. In those homely sayings are couched the collective wisdom of generations.