Generation Quotes

#1. Sometimes I want to yell on this track; I want to yell the whole song, and I don't think nothing's wrong with that, but the older generation feel like you can't.

Slim Jimmy

#2. And I dreamed down at the clouds, and thought that when I was a kid I had dreamed up at them, and having dreamed at the clouds from both sides as no other generation of men has done, one should be able to accept his death very easily.

Saul Bellow

#3. Each new generation of children grows up in the new environment its parents have created, and each generation of brains becomes wired in a different way. The human mind can change radically in just a few generations.

Alison Gopnik

#4. My father was an immigrant from Russia and my mother was first generation.

Arthur Rock

#5. That was the moment we understood that things can go terribly wrong in our world - not because life is unfair or moral progress impossible but because we have failed, generation after generation, to abolish the delusions and animosities of our ignorant ancestors.

Sam Harris

#6. I think everybody in my generation, we wanted to be Elvis.

Chris Isaak

#7. We don't need another Woody. Even Bob Dylan knew he couldn't be Woody Guthrie ... I like Woody Guthrie fine, but I don't need the 50th generation version of it.

Buzz Osborne

#8. I think teenage impatience is just plain human nature! I think every generation has to cope with different circumstances, different problems. But it's the world that's changed. Human nature hasn't.

Loretta Young

#9. I don't think for this generation, but for my generation and my father's generation, men had difficulty in accessing emotion and then being able to talk about it.

Liam Neeson

#10. The ameliorating march of the last few centuries has been initiated by the heretics of each age, though I concede that the men and women denounced and persecuted as infidels by the pious of one century are frequently claimed as saints by the pious of a later generation.

Charles Bradlaugh

#11. Truth had hanged the way the landscape had changed to accommodate progress, altered by each generation to its purpose. He had learned from the talk of old men that there was no such thing as truth, truth was always shaded by perception and expectation.

William Gay

#12. a generation:
the black night gave me black eyes
still I use them to seek the light

Gu Cheng

#13. The next generation of women will enter a world in which they are perceived to have more opportunities for creating fulfilling lives than women have ever had before.

Elizabeth Debold

#14. Every generation of converts threshes over the same old straw.

Susan B. Anthony

#15. Every generation has its own Goran. So I was the Goran of this generation.

Goran Ivanisevic

#16. For me, it's not just about blessing my generation, I've done that already, I also have to be a father to the fatherless.

Onyi Anyado

#17. And for its part, what was life? Was it perhaps only an infectious disease of matter - just as the so-called spontaneous generation of matter was perhaps only an illness, a cancerous stimulation of the immaterial?

Thomas Mann

#18. Every generation's breakthroughs are proven false by the next generation's
Technology

Dan Brown

#19. I've led this empty life for over forty years and now I can pass that heritage on and ensure that the misery will continue for at least one more generation.

Larry David

#20. Under the Assads, Kurds were forbidden from learning their own language at school, or even from speaking it in the military. The result is a generation of Syrian Kurds, many now in late middle age, who can't write their own language.

Luke Harding

#21. Prayer is powerful! It fills the earth with mercy, it makes the Divine clemency pass from generation to generation; right along the course of the centuries wonderful works have been achieved through prayer.

Frances Xavier Cabrini

#22. When you hit the things that are relevant to the next generation, - it's a way for young people to feel like "Somebody understands me. Church is not irrelevant. I feel that my hurts are being addressed. Things that I am concerned about are being talked about."

Patricia Mauceri

#23. The "unchurching" of the next generation is happening right under our noses, even in the very churches that pride themselves on reaching the unchurched.

Michael S. Horton

#24. How can you squander even one more day not taking advantage of the greatest shifts of our generation? How dare you settle for less when the world has made it so easy for you to be remarkable?

Seth Godin

#25. I've always had great respect for Paddington because he is amusingly English and eccentric. He is a great British institution and my generation grew up with the books and then Michael Horden's animations.

Stephen Fry

#26. I cry looking at our reality, through slave eyes. I bet they would say our generation has crossed the line.

Delano Johnson

#27. I think Serena Williams is the best tennis player of this generation, if not the best ever. It is amazing for her to be playing as well as she is at the age of 31.

Samantha Stosur

#28. Attention deficit is no longer the supposed domain of Generation Y's who were brought up on a diet of social media and new technology. A recent study revealed 65 percent of 55-64 year olds surf, text and watch television simultaneously.

Kevin Kelly DO The Pursuit Of Xceptional Execution

#29. The younger generation gives me more respect than I could ever hope for.

Daryl Hall

#30. I feel bad for the kids that are in school right now and the young people all across America who don't realize that the grownups who are supposed to be running this country are the verge of leaving them as the first generation of Americans worse off than the generation before.

Marco Rubio

#31. Word that is not actively used by one generation will not be heard by the next generation and will then be lost forever.

Guy Deutscher

#32. Education is one of the main ways that communities pass on their values and traditions from one generation to the next.

Ken Robinson

#33. Grandmother belongs to the generation of women who were satisfied to have men retain their vices, if they removed their hats.

Margaret Deland

#34. We were granted the right to exist by the God of our fathers at the glimmer of the dawn of human civilization nearly 4,000 years ago. For that right, which has been sanctified in Jewish blood from generation to generation, we have paid a price unexampled in the annals of the nations.

Menachem Begin

#35. My generation must have despair. - Leonard Bernstein Ch 40/Dog Water Free, A Memoir

Michael Jay

#36. A generation ago there were a thousand men to every opportunity, while today there are a thousand opportunities to every man.

Henry Ford II

#37. Our generation has an incredible amount of realism, yet at the same time it loves to complain and not really change. Because, if it does change, then it won't have anything to complain about.

Tori Amos

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

Owen Chamberlain

#39. Standardized personality differences between the sexes are of this order, cultural creations to which each generation, male and female, is trained to conform.

Margaret Mead

#40. (I'm a child of the wired generation, unlike some of the suits hereabouts who have their secretaries print everything out and dictate their replies for an audio-typist to send.)

Charles Stross

#41. For more than 20 years, Camfed has supported a generation of African girls and women with access to secondary and higher education, employment opportunities, and, ultimately, into positions of leadership.

Ann Cotton

#42. Is it possible to covet a much longer life for one's self and be as devoted to the well-being of the next generation? It's a long argument.

Leon Kass

#43. My parents were both first-generation Irish Catholics raised in Brooklyn.

Alice McDermott

#44. Within your own generation-the same songs, the same wars, the same attitudes toward those wars, the same rules and radio shows in the air-you can gauge the possibilities and impossibilities. With a person of another generation, you are treading water, playing with fire.

John Updike

#45. Building capacities for the young generation is going to make a better generation and a better future tomorrow for Africa.

Corneille Ewango

#46. Nothing belongs to us. Everything is something that is rented out. Our very heads are filled with rented ideas passed on from one generation to the next.

Thomas Ligotti

#47. To want a job that exercises a man's capacities in an enterprise useful to society, is utopian anarcho-syndicalism; it is labor invading the domain of management. No labor leader has entertained such a thought in our generation. Management has the "sole prerogative" to determine the products.

Paul Goodman

#48. The experience of our generation:
that capitalism will not die a natural death.

Walter Benjamin

#49. The modern minds in each generation are the critics who preserve us from a petrifying world, who will not leave us to walk undisturbed in the ways of our fathers.

Edith Hamilton

#50. The notion that Playboy turns women into sex objects is ridiculous. Women are sex objects. If women weren't sex objects, there wouldn't be another generation. It's the attraction between the sexes that makes the world go 'round. That's why women wear lipstick and short skirts.

Hugh Hefner

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

Tinie Tempah

#52. 'Saturday Night Fever,' Paula Abdul, 'Fame,' Debbie Allen ... all affected me and the generation before me.

Laurieann Gibson

#53. When we've defined femininity for their generation so narrowly, in such a sexualized, commercialized, heteroeroticized way, where is the space, the vision, the celebration of other ways to be a girl?

Peggy Orenstein

#54. I want to do what I can to give the next generation of athletes added advantages in the game.

Abby Wambach

#55. I am proud of the hip hop generation. They are good business people and, actually, good people.

Nikki Giovanni

#56. My grandfather pioneered exploration of what he called 'our water planet,' then my father sought to understand the human connection, and now, as part of the third generation, I'm dedicated to not only raising awareness but also to empowering people to take action.

Philippe Cousteau Jr.

#57. Mutter Erde ist keine Maschine
Henry Red Cloud is the direct 5th generation descendant of Chief Red Cloud

Henry Red Cloud

#58. Music's cyclical. There's always that next generation that always comes along.

Eric Church

#59. In our generation, the role models were Gandhi and Nehru. We revered them. They were venerated personalities. I read almost every speech of Nehru.

Pranab Mukherjee

#60. It is preposterous to suppose that the people of one generation can lay down the best and only rules of government for all who are to come after them, and under unforeseen contingencies.

Ulysses S. Grant

#61. Growing up in stable, happy, and secure households may end up killing ambition, which leads to downward social mobility. The most extreme examples of this are found in aristocratic families, in which the amount of inherited wealth tends to decline with every generation.

Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic

#62. When the generation after me started getting on the cut, a lot of them would call me over to hang out or go jam and scratch and they were always separate from each other.

Eric San

#63. What Kant refers to as depression is simply this stark realization: that thought is only incidentally human. It would take a later generation of philosophers to derive the conclusion of this: that thought thinks us, not the reverse. Legend

Eugene Thacker

#64. I shall be as tender to you as my father was not to me. For what's the point of breeding children, if each generation does not improve on who went before?

Hilary Mantel

#65. At the beginning, I really wanted to be home with my kid. I was a product of my generation. But in the suburbs, you are very isolated, really alone.

Susan Isaacs

#66. The combinatory agility of words," he wrote in "Not-Knowing," "the exponential generation of meaning once they're allowed to go to bed together, allows the writer to surprise himself, makes art possible, reveals how much of Being we haven't yet encountered.

Donald Barthelme

#67. Men get tired of everything, of heaven no less than of hell; and that all history is nothing but a record of the oscillations of the world between these two extremes. An epoch is but a swing of the pendulum; and each generation thinks the world is progressing because it is always moving.

George Bernard Shaw

#68. There is something about this generation living now, that we don't accept death.

Elena Anaya

#69. My parents' generation's benchmark was simple: Fat Equals Bad.

Arabella Weir

#70. History can't tell us. Each generation must define itself.

Geoffrey Ward

#71. In most sciences one generation tears down what another has built and what one has established another undoes. In mathematics alone each generations adds a new story to the old structure.

Hermann Hankel

#72. The destructiveness of the tar sands is not inevitable. But Canadians and Albertans have become too tolerant of the politicians who compromise the nation's energy security as well as the next generation's future.

Andrew Nikiforuk

#73. Times change. Every generation has a new set of problems. Human nature is unmoved.

David Harsanyi

#74. Hey, I'm just trying to become the Michael Caine/Gene Hackman of my generation.

John C. Reilly

#75. The upward revision of import duty, from 1 per cent to over 4 per cent on steam coal imports, will adversely impact the industry, as it will lead to increase in cost of power generation.

Gautam Adani

#76. The present generation finds itself the heir of a vast patrimony of science; and it must needs concern us to know the steps by which these possessions were acquired, and the documents by which they are secured to us and our heirs for ever.

William Whewell

#77. After a Polish Pope, whose country was first to be invaded by the Germans in World War Two, we now have someone from the generation drafted at the close of the war.

Horst Koehler

#78. Let a new earth rise. Let another world be born. Let a bloody peace be written in the sky. Let a second generation full of courage issue forth; let a people loving freedom come to growth.

Margaret Walker

#79. Like a baseball game, wars are not over till they are over. Wars don't run on a clock like football. No previous generation was so hopelessly unrealistic that this had to be explained to them.

Thomas Sowell

#80. Sometimes I fear that, if Harvard does not give up trying to turn itself from an Institution of Learning into an Educational Institution, we may have a generation of professors whose duty it will be to disseminate information which they have not the time to acquire.

Edwin Boring

#81. The impact today from the latchkey generational signpost is that Generation Xers tend to be highly independent workers. After

Meagan Johnson

#82. Kids today are much more independant than their parents were. We're really into getting jobs and we mature sexually much earlier than a generation ago. Or, at least, we are involved in sex earlier.

Phoebe Cates

#83. Each generation has its own dream of beauty. I have lived long enough to watch it change. Just then, he was what all sculptors were reaching after, and only the great achieved.

Mary Renault

#84. Graduates, I'm asking each of you, at some point, to act up, be misbehaved. Buck the system. Fight for what you believe in. This is the time to do it. You're the ones to do it. Your world, is like no other generation, you actually get to create the world that you can imagine.

Mark Ruffalo

#85. Let it never be said of this generation of Americans that we became so obsessed with failure that we refused to take risks that could further the cause of peace and freedom in the world.

Ronald Reagan

#86. That one generation of men in civil society have no right to make acts to bind another, is a truth that cannot be confused.

Thomas Jefferson

#87. I'm always made a little uncomfortable by studies that assert that Millennials are the most narcissistic generation in history. To me, being young has always meant being self-absorbed; in many ways, that's what youth is for.

Robin Marantz Henig

#88. A parent's experience is an unknowable one. How, after all, can a child fathom what it means to be a parent, let alone a parent of a certain generation, with a certain personal history, with a certain spouse, with even a certain child? I get ready for my meeting with

Deb Caletti

#89. The application of collective guilt, running from one generation to another, is a dangerous doctrine which would leave few modern nations unscathed.

Margaret Thatcher

#90. Everything is for the eye these days - TV, Life, Look, the movies. Nothing is just for the mind. The next generation will have eyeballs as big as cantaloupes and no brain at all.

Fred Allen

#91. Generally the younger generation are not hard working. They will have to put in more effort to achieve results in tournaments. most of them can perform well but they cannot deliver when they play abroad.

Jahangir Khan

#92. No generation is interested in art in quite the same way as any other; each generation, like each individual, brings to the contemplation of art its own categories of appreciation, makes its own demands upon art, and has its own uses for art.

T. S. Eliot

#93. I think that new communications are wonderful and I am delighted to be a part of the Internet generation.

Judy Collins

#94. It's obviously tricky to convert cellulose to a useful biofuel. I think actually the most efficient way to use cellulose is to burn it in a co-generation power plant. That will yield the most energy and that is something you can do today.

Elon Musk

#95. Countless people ... will hate the New World Order ... and will die protesting against it ... we have to bear in mind the distress of a generation or so of malcontents ...

H.G.Wells

#96. The millennial generation in the US is the first that has reduced expectations from those of their parents. And I think there is something decadent and declinist about that.

Peter Thiel

#97. Especially for people of our generation, who really celebrated certain attitudes - the outsider, the loner - it can have a real impact on the art when they realize, I have friends, I'm married, or I have kids. That's certainly happened to me.

Adrian Tomine

#98. Maybe you are the 'cool' generation If coolness means a capacity to stay calm and use your head in the service of ends passionately believed in, then it has my admiration.

Kingman Brewster Jr.

#99. God needs people like this in the church, who will perform feats amidst their own generation

Sunday Adelaja

#100. I WILL SPARK A GENERATION OF THINKERS WHO WILL QUESTION TRADITIONAL THOUGHT UNTIL THEY FIND THE ABSOLUTE TRUTH

Kanye West