Generations Quotes

I think that Rachel Maddow is probably the most assertive, politically motivated and accurate voice of my generation.

It is perfectly possible that a grandfather can have a more scientific mind than his grandchildren! Societies do not always go forward! Sometimes old generations are much luckier!

I'm a first-generation Canadian.

The Earth swirls down through the ominous moons of preconsidered generations.

You're always going to need those folks that introduce certain things to the next generation and I fit in that sense.

Honestly, I'm a firm believer in the next generation of filmmakers. It's very important to keep things fresh, new, current. They have a pulse on what's important today.

I've never really acquired any facility for working on the computer, though one day I think I would like to. My generation just barely missed it, which I don't think is a good thing or a bad thing.

Every generation loses the Messiah it has failed to deserve.

The history of second-generation actors isn't great in our industry.

If we create a generation of men who aren't getting an education, that's bad for women.

All my life I believed I became an athlete through my own determination, but it's impossible to think that being descended from slaves hasn't left an imprint through the generations.

Stop the bullsh*t. Stop drawing lines in the sand like previous generations [have done].

I'm a first-generation American, so I had friends from several cultures while growing up, including Indian and Iranian friends.

One gets used to success very quickly. The surprise was how deep and enduringly I was touching people, in such different places and throughout generations.

A new generation of more educated people started to be active. Then society required freedom, society demanded freedom.

It is a wise provision that youth cannot see what it owes the previous generation. This is a chicken that comes back to roost in heavier years.

Is this a generation of orphans who are going to the improv to do stand-up?

I think future generations will say the late 20th century and the early 21st century was a time of great convulsions and upheavals.

It has been said that each generation must win its own struggle to be free. -Robert F. Kennedy

We must build an agenda for speedy yet sustainable economic growth that is inclusive of all, is respectful of individuals, responsive to innovation and responsible towards the future generations.

I am not doing any favour, only performing a duty; this victory is a result of struggle of five generations.

Those who think only for a year, they sow food grains; those who think for a decade, they plant fruits; But those who think for generations, they prepare humans.

We want to change the identity of Delhi from Generator Capital to Power Generation Capital.

The young generation of today is globally connected. They want to live in an equitable and efficient India. We have to be ready for this, and work for this.

With the young generation, there are even more women than men making movies right now.

I want people to think about the connection between mothers and daughters. I like the idea of continuity of life and generations.

I want to be able to infuse some youthful energy and comedy while appreciating the generations before.

History and the generations to come will judge our leaders by the decisions they make in the coming weeks.

Our generation had been told that life had seriousness, and we came in (to politics) with purpose. We were serving history.

America's education system has become less a ladder of opportunity than a structure to transmit inequity from one generation to the next.

What the younger generation didn't understand was that the grass was greenest where it's watered.

I think 75% of the population of Great Britain are probably still de-churched. It's the younger end, the 25%, the merging generation, who have no church background at all.

You want to take some responsibility for you choices so that it sets the groundwork for that next generation of actresses.

Today's Democrats are pretty much what used to be called moderate Republicans a generation ago.

Drugs have taught an entire generation of kids the metric system

Greatest generation came through some stuff that we can't even imagine - the Depression, World War I - and all they wanted after that was a breather and a calm and a quiet life, and they get us.

In a lot of ways I was a generation ahead of my generation; I had a working mother wheneveryone else’s mother was staying at home.

Perhaps I was born too early. I was more the painter of your generation than of mine.

What a great time to be born! What a great time to be alive! Because this generation gets to essentially completely change the world.

When I was nine I spent a lot of my time reading books about the history of comedy, or listening to the Goons or Hancock, humour from previous generations.

We want American families to feel more confident in life. We want the next generation to know that yes, the best days of this country are still ahead of us.

I was looking for people who didn't have any preconceptions about films, what I call the "post-rules" generation.

Our campaigns have always been based on what we consider music icons that transcend generations and they're not of the moment - they continue to evolve.

Daft Punk and I belong to the Generation 75. We were born in 1975, so we are somewhat in the middle of the rebellion and freedom of the 70s and the consumer culture of the 80s.

The moon of Mahomet Arose, and it shall set; While, blazoned as on heaven's immortal noon, The cross leads generations on.

A business enterprise must continue beyond the lifetime of the individual or of the generation to be capable of producing its contributions to economy and to society.

This is the rollcall of evolution happening in the space of a few generations, the greatest loss of living things that make up our biodiversity since the disappearance of the dinosaurs.

A whole new generation is looking at the videos, and going to the video shop and buying the re-release of the complete trilogy, which you can buy at a reasonable price.

Art teachers are always the doormats of the previous generation.

What one generation finds ridiculous, the next accepts; and the third shudders when it looks back on what the first did.