Generation Quotes

Barack Obama is the most antibusiness president in a generation, perhaps in American history.

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

Most of the suicide hijackers came from Saudi Arabia, a place not lacking in wealth. But due to rapid population growth, the wealth per capita has fallen by about half in a generation.

A whole generation of Americans will retire in poverty instead of prosperity, because they simply are not preparing for retirement now.

I think these days a lot of the younger generation feels that the world owes them something. But you've got to get off your backside and you've got to do all the crap stuff, too.

Some people accuse the new generation of being ignorant, maybe ignorant for the old generation, but it's a new language.

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

My father belongs to the generation that fought the war in the 1940s. When I was a kid my father told me stories - not so many, but it meant a lot to me. I wanted to know what happened then, to my father's generation. It's a kind of inheritance, the memory of it.

Fortunately, right now 'entrepreneurship' is one of the business world's biggest buzz words and so many young people in our country are looking up to this new generation of CEO's as their modern day rock stars. Whenever you have that effect, it makes the job of promoting entrepreneurship much easier.

I really have a generation gap about modern clothes.

I hate organized religion. I think you have to love thy neighbor as thyself. I think you have to pick your own God and be true to him. I always say 'him' rather than 'her.' Maybe it's because of my generation, but I don't like the idea of a female God. I see God as a benevolent male.

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

From one generation to the next, The Beatles will remain the most important rock band of all time.

My parents gave up a lot to bring me up in the little house on the prairie, and I wasn't prepared to make those sacrifices, nor was the generation before me and the generation after.

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

The problem is that resuscitating old labels doesn't work anymore. I think it is very important to give hope to a new generation of designers, so that one day they really can put their own names out there.

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.

What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren't supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown - watch the raindrops coming down the window pane?

If our language, our programs, our creations are not strongly present in the new media, the young generation of our country will be economically and culturally marginalized.

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

A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.

Jewish persecution is a historical memory of the present generation and people fear it in the present day, and that's why those references are so much more powerful. I just understand that better now.

We learned in the university to consider Wordsworth and Keats as Romantics. They were only a generation apart, but Wordsworth didn't even read Keats's book when he gave him a copy.

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

It's a struggle but that's why we exist, so that another generation of Lesbians of color will not have to invent themselves, or their history, all over again.

In the Rodgers and Hammerstein generation, popular hits came out of shows and movies.

Our fathers had their dreams; we have ours; the generation that follows will have its own. Without dreams and phantoms man cannot exist.

The young generation has a different curiosity that is more visual.

Your environment doesn't define you. I don't have a lot of money, but I can help train people and I can talk to people. We can all be mentors to the next generation.

Women will only have true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation.