Generation Quotes

In the end, the American dream is not a sprint, or even a marathon, but a relay. Our families don't always cross the finish line in the span of one generation. But each generation passes on to the next the fruits of their labor.

Grandchildren are the dots that connect the lines from generation to generation.

The recent riots in France demonstrate the problem European countries face where second and third generation immigrants still do not consider themselves French, German, or English.

You need to be naive enough to do things differently. No big publishing house would have allowed us to co-create a fully designed, four color business book in landscape format - because it was contrary to the publishing industry logic. However, we thought of Business Model Generation as a product, not just a book - similar to Apple products.

Maybe there are three or four really good poets in a generation.

The information that is passed from person to person and from generation to generation is the primary factor that gives humans a competitive advantage over other animals.

Lucky individuals in each generation find technology appropriate to their needs.

I had no new ideas on the physics we might learn, and I could not compete with the younger generation.

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

The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

We must ensure that today's seniors' benefits are rock solid and find a solution that fixes Social Security for the next generation that is just entering the workforce.

Great men, unknown to their generation, have their fame among the great who have preceded them, and all true worldly fame subsides from their high estimate beyond the stars.

I was part of it, and I am still part of it today in terms of what it means to a whole new generation of people who are interested in the enduring energy, achievements, spirit and creativity that exemplified our era.

I'm trying to bring a new generation into the musical theater and to create a new audience.

Mathematical discoveries, small or great are never born of spontaneous generation.

And I'm so excited to remind people and even gain new fans who find out about Dharma - a new generation who could find out about Dharma and enjoy her and all the characters on the show.

The language of the younger generation has the brutality of the city and an assertion of threatening power at hand, not to come. It is military, theatrical, and at its most coherent probably a lasting repudiation of empty courtesy and bureaucratic euphemism.

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

Are things getting better with each generation? Yes. It's quite interesting to be living in these times, for me to witness an African-American being elected president. It's quite extraordinary.

The truth of the matter is, all of those guys on Star Trek: The Next Generation actually want to be me. These impersonations they do are just some way of trying to feel what it must be like to be me. And I understand that! Because it feels really good to be Patrick Stewart!

In Sweden, I went to an English school, where there was a mishmash of people from all over the world. Some were diplomatic kids with a lot of money, some were ghetto kids who came up from the suburbs, and I grew up in between. There's a community of second generation immigrants, and I became part of that because I had an American father.

There is a rising generation in this country who do not know God because of a general decay of religion.

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.

For a generation, terrorists learned they could make war on free nations without fear of war in return. On September 12, the terrorists got war in return.

The response to 'The Greatest Generation' and the books that followed has been one of the most satisfying experiences of my life.

There's a whole generation of women who never really heard the word investment before, when it came to fashion. They've been buying things because they were cheap.

My first generation of young readers now have not only children, but some of them have grandchildren to whom they're introducing their old passion.

There's so much talk about the drug generation and songs about drugs. That's stupid. They aren't songs about drugs; they're about life.

I believe the war on terror is the vital discussion of this decade and of our generation, probably. To win the war on terror, you need a good offense and a good defense. On defense, I regret to say, basically, this administration has not come close to doing what is necessary.

I have had much to learn from Sweden's poetry and, more especially, from her lyrics of the last generation.