Generations Quotes

We have a new generation of very rich people who want to do more with their money than buy a lot of expensive toys. They want to live meaningful lives.

The ethic behind songs of conscience doesn't change, even though the issues are altered from generation to generation.

We've created the best indoor winter facility in the world. Having set that benchmark, it could inspire a whole new generation throughout the world.

Just because many modern academics are very secular does not mean that we should ignore those factors in earlier generations - and by that, I don't just mean five or six centuries ago.

Most influential of all is the philosopher Stanley Cavell, and a younger generation of philosophers who have attempted to follow his pioneering work in thinking about literature philosophically.

With technology, we can achieve universal access to secondary education within a generation.

I think there's a whole older generation that will go to movies still. People like me; people over 45.

There is something frightful in the way in which not only characteristic qualities, but particular manifestations of them, are repeated from generation to generation.

There are still generations of people, older people, who were born and bred and marinated in it, in that prejudice and racism, and they just have to die.

The gospel of Jesus Christ must be defended in every generation. It is always the center of attack by the forces of evil.

We have a generation of people who think they can stand before the judgment seat of God despite their sins.

I'm the fourth generation to be in show business. It's pretty neat; it's nice to have that family history.

Overhead the sanctities of the stars shine forever-more... pouring satire on the pompous business of the day which they close, and making the generations of men show slight and evanescent.

It is just possible that the tensions in a novel of murder are the simplest and yet most complete pattern of the tensions on which we live in this generation.

There's a new television generation coming in every five or 10 years, and the classic stories stand up to being redone.

There is so much that is fake about our society. My generation is craving something that is real, honest and true. The Message is straight up! It's modern, relevant, and direct.

A generation ago, the image was that you had to trample everyone else down to succeed; but I don't believe that makes good business sense.

The history of science has been one long series of violent brainstorms, as successive generations have come to terms with increasing levels of queerness in the universe.

The World War II generation believed the United States could do anything - anything... And Vietnam was a shattering experience for everyone.

We have been maintaining a standard of living by putting things on the debt of the next generation.

So many people of my generation all grew up with that shock theater package on television of 'Frankenstein,' 'Wolfman,' 'Dracula,' 'Mummy,' all the Universal stuff.

I believe in America. I believe in her purpose and her promise. I believe her best days have not yet been lived. I believe her greatest deeds are reserved for the generations to come.

Audie Murphy remains a shining example for anyone who believes in the importance of service, for generations now and into the future.

The point is it is amazing that the generations have joined in the Beatle madness and love the music. Who knew?

I think that when a poem can move readers across generations and across its specific class or race then it becomes truly classic.

Generations pass while some tree stands, and old families last not three oaks.

Some ways of naming a generation are fruitful and some are not. Postmodernism is not. It doesn't really say anything.

Everybody's not going to like jazz, let's just be honest about it. Everybody doesn't like everything. There's a disconnect in generations and some people just aren't going to feel that music.

When different generations of cars are combined into one train, it messes with the loudspeaker system.

The generations that were exposed to sitcom have the people actually saying the line, saying the joke, whereas sort of before that you have much more observational humor.

William Dalrymple has superseded Mark Tully as the voice of India… He may well be the greatest travel writer of his generation.

You went to Woodstock and all that trash, your generation is fading fast.

Nobody can be rich and stupid for more than one generation.

You know, it was only a generation ago that actors couldn't be buried in the churchyard.

We may be the generation that sees Armageddon.

My generation never experienced (fortunately) that type of collective tragedy, where everybody goes totally crazy and turns the world into a gigantic nightmare.

Rock is young music, it is youth oriented. It just speaks for a generation.

Every generation thinks the cultural rot during their time is worse than it's ever been. That's not true.

The public school system doesn't get everybody. Every generation has its rebels.

Our basic fundamental desires are overly stimulated. A friend of mine said, "you have a generation of people that have been accidentally marketed to."

My generation was somewhat between things, neither free nor much supported by whatever held us in.

I think as time goes on that generation of rappers who's making it now is gonna face the same thing that my generation was facing, which is the decrease of sales. The decrease of hard-copies.

I am the age of the some of the grandparents that are bringing their young grandchildren to hear the music. I have been fortunate enough to see multiple generations of families come see my shows.

And for him [Kurt Cobain] to do that [suicide] - I didn't like that. I thought that was just wrong. It just sent a bad message to a troubled generation.

Their virtues lived in their children. The family changed its persons but not its manners, and they continued a blessing to the world from generation to generation.

Take hints from other women in the office. We are very fortunate to be in a generation where there are a lot of older women in the office. Take a look at what they're wearing.

Your library teacher would say, "What happens to a generation that doesn't read the Classics?" Me, I'm not your library teacher. But I have some of the same questions and concerns, you know?

Niggy Tardust' is the voice of a generation, a generation that does not define itself simply by what it's born into.

A next-generation innovation writer and thought leader worth watching.

To be appreciated by a whole 'nother generation of fans, all of a sudden discovering you, it's kind of what I did with the classic bands I love - the ones that influenced me.