Generation Quotes

A generation of children has been betrayed.

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

I do feel part of that generation of people who were rather idealistic in the '70s and became disillusioned in the '80s. Not just about social services issues, but the world.

I think the younger generation, the people poised to dominate the workforce, are more socially conscious. They are more demanding in terms of environment and how that environment contributes to their life.

There is nothing I'm any more passionate than empowering the next generation.

It's the same thing now. When I go onstage the young people scream and holler as much as the older generation.

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.

Every generation is gonna keep changing, and you just have to embrace the change.

I believe the destiny of your generation - and your nation - is a rendezvous with excellence.

No member of our generation who wasn't a Communist or a dropout in the thirties is worth a damn.

I want to be the bridge to the next generation.

We will be remembered only if we give to our younger generation a prosperous and safe India, resulting out of economic prosperity coupled with civilizational heritage.

We've unveiled the most comprehensive reform budget people have seen in a generation.

Appropriation was the language of my generation in many ways. It came out of Duchamp, Warhol, Johns, Lichtenstein.

Coming out as a Barbra Streisand fan was way more embarrassing than coming out as a lesbian. To be an artist of my generation willing to be unhip - artists were supposed to be like cowboys.

We are enmeshed in a lineage that came from somewhere and is going to make way for the next generation.

I took on the sins of everybody, of a generation, really.

In my parents' generation, rebellion was pop culture. It's not anymore.

The British playwright Nina Raine is one of her generation's most promising talents.

I don't want to live in a bubble, in my craft or in the world...I can't, I would be cheating myself out of my generation and the world we live in.

These companies know that at their current size they're not going to be big enough to have the necessary capital, and they don't have enough spectrum to get to the third generation.

We were all on this ship in the sixties, our generation, a ship going to discover the New World. And the Beatles were in the crow's nest of that ship.

Each generation should be made to bear the burden of its own wars, instead of carrying them on, at the expense of other generations.

We have a complex system of government. You have to teach it to every generation.

Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.

My generation of the Sixties, with all our great ideals, destroyed liberalism, because of our excesses.

The generation that migrated to the West in the 1970s or 1960s has now lived more in the West than India, and India has changed so much. My parents fall into that category.

Never will the doctrine of spontaneous generation recover from the mortal blow struck by this simple experiment.

I think we're the first generation to successfully integrate American society.

Every generation is equidistant from God.

There is a wealth of twentieth century music that is being re-discovered by a generation that hasn't heard it.

This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.

There is a mysterious cycle in human events. To some generations much is given. Of other generations much is expected. This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.

Of course, I'm drawn to a place like Iraq because It's the biggest story of our generation.

And my generation in Brazil was influenced by Cinema Novo. So we're echoing what's been done way in the past.

Every movement that slays its gods creates new ones, of course. I loathe talk of the sixties and seventies being a 'Greatest Generation' of artists, but if we're going to use such idiotic appellations, let this one also be applied to the artists, curators, and gallerists who emerged in the first half of the nineties.

Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.

Every generation that comes from this family has to do better than the last.

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.

I could never have imagined that firing 67 people on national television would actually make me more popular, especially with the younger generation.

I feel like I'm a product of this generation where everybody listens to charts with diverse music.

Never before has a civilization reached such a degree of a contempt for life; never before has a generation, drowned in mortification, felt such a rage to live.

'General Hospital' was so massive in the 80s and that's when people my age or even younger watched that show. A generation grew up on that show, Luke and Laura, I came in on the cusp of that so there's still a lot of 'Frisco.'

One thing that was passed on from generation to generation in my family, over seven generations in 200 years, was never give up. That's the way we live.

It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous.

Many in Taiwan believe that Hu Jintao is much more sophisticated than his predecessors in understanding Taiwan. He represents a different generation of leaders, more pragmatic, less ideological.

That generation of Germans, along with volunteers from Denmark, Holland, even England and the Free India division and so on, we Europeans were alert and awake to the danger of Bolshevism.

My mind-set is Munich. Most of my generation's is Vietnam.

Each generation must recreate liberty for its own times.

Each new generation is a fresh invasion of savages.

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

I believe in my heart that 'Avatar' is going to be the revolutionary sci-fi movie for this generation, in this era.

I am part of a vast generation of people who perpetually live as if they just graduated from college.

Sacrifice still exists everywhere, and everywhere the elect of each generation suffers for the salvation of the rest.

There's a new generation of entrepreneurs in the Valley who have arrived since 2000, after the dotcom bust. They're completely fearless.

I was a TV junkie as a kid. I am the Sesame Street generation.

Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But many in the world lack these luxuries. How do you practice without such tryout venues?

I have no influence with the rising generation. All my arguments have failed to induce them to set bounds to their wants.

Schultz is not a Nazi. I see Schultz as the representative of some kind of goodness in any generation.

I know too much to be a sceptic and too little to be a dogmatist.

I think my whole generation's mission is to kill the cliche.

As a teacher, as a propagandist, Mr. Shaw is no good at all, even in his own generation. But as a personality, he is immortal.

Nothing is more singular about this generation than its addiction to music.

Maybe our generation is more about sex, but it feels like romance is dying out.

Being spokesman for a generation is the worst job I ever had.

This is the generation whose first cry of life was the Hungarian uprising.

It is, I believe, the greatest generation any society has ever produced.

In 2005 we have a once in a generation opportunity to deliver a modern Marshall plan for the developing world.

That's maybe the most important thing each generation does, is to break a lot of rules and make up their own way of doing things.

You can take as much as you can from the generation that has preceded you, but then it's up to you to make something new.

I've heard though that there is a younger generation of tonal French composers who are reacting with vigour.

This wired generation is kind of cool.

German militarism and Nazism have devastated twice in our generation the lands of German neighbors.

Our grandfathers had to run, run, run. My generation's out of breath. We ain't running no more.

In this generation, the issue pressing that question on our consciences is the issue of abortion.

Each generation of scientists stands upon the shoulders of those who have gone before.

My generation is under-entertained.