Generation Quotes

What has been forgotten is that there were major intellectual breakthroughs in the 1960s, thanks to North American writers of an older generation. There was a rupture in continuity, since most young people influenced by those breakthroughs did not enter the professions.

I was raised in a time where children were still seen and not heard basically, so I think a lot of us in my generation went the other way and just tried to be as much more liberal and open and we're still paying for it.

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.

In Finland, we learned quite a lot from our own civil war. The wounds were visible when I was a boy, but my generation went into the Second World War and it united the Finnish nation, so I do not see any more wounds.

Well, I grew up around the magazine and was part of a generation that was embracing our sexuality.

I had heard so much negative talk about our generation, that we're slackers and young fogies, that I knew wasn't true of the people I know.

I pray every day for my little girls. It's hard out there for the younger generation.

Because the truth is, today's immigrants, as they have for generation after generation, work the longest hours at the hardest jobs for the lowest pay, jobs that are just about impossible to fill.

Parents who wonder where the younger generation is going should remember where it came from.

We can't understand when we're pregnant, or when our siblings are expecting, how profound it is to have a shared history with a younger generation: blood, genes, humor. It means we were actually here, on Earth, for a time - like the Egyptians with their pyramids, only with children.

Every American born today owes $43,000 to the federal government the day she or he is born. And we are transferring a tremendous amount of debt to the new generation, much of it owed to overseas creditors who expect to be repaid by our children with interest.

I was the Marlon Brando of my generation.

Without significant reform, the Social Security Administration will be legally and financially unable to pay full promised benefits within a generation.

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

It just blows me away that I am on, I don't know what generation of fans.

I'm very proud of Space 1999. Its success paved the way for other sci-fi shows to follow. My hope is that the DVD release will help it reach a new generation of fans.

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

There are many women who came before me who didn't really have the same opportunities that I have had. That's why I always wanted to be a great ambassador - not only today's generation - but for the women who really didn't have a voice, but who paved the way for me.

Hardly any generation wants to take the whole of the last generation, it just wants to take its best bits.

New gene pools are generated in every generation, and evolution takes place because the successful individuals produced by these gene pools give rise to the next generation.

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

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.

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

I had always loved expressionist painting, like every European. In fact I admired it all the more because these were precisely the paintings despised by my father's generation.

I had seen the films out of World War II, the great 82nd Airborne, the 101st, and all of those of you in the greatest generation and the service that you had provided.

Ambient Devices develops a new generation of consumer electronic products.

It's very important for men to look downward, to the next generation.

Whether the prayer of Seneca was granted we do not know; but, as we do not again hear of Marcus, it is probable that he died before his father, and that the line of Seneca, like that of so many great men, became extinct in the second generation.

It's shortsighted not to view the education of a future generation of Americans as a priority for all Americans.

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.