Generation Quotes

I don't need a successor, only willing hands to accept the torch for a new generation.

As major orchestras around the world are gripped in various kinds of crises and upheaval, we need to be sure that we are bringing up this new generation.

I was raised with those principals and values and ethics that came out of the men and women that served. But this generation doesn't quite know; they haven't been tested.

Every generation deals with the breaking down of its tradition, and I think that they rediscovered the film.

The young very seldom lead anything in our country today. It's been quite some time since a younger generation pushed an older one to a higher standard.

Looking back 25 years later, what I may say is that the facts have been far better than the dreams. In the long course of cell life on this earth it remained, for our age for our generation, to receive the full ownership of our inheritance.

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

The amazing fact is that America is founded on a document. It's a work in progress. It can be tested by each generation.

If you assume that it was a valid experiment, then its disintegration reveals a very substantial part of what has been found since then, including the fact that you can get heat generation at high temperature.

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

The most enduring legacy of President Barack Obama is going to be a new generation of leaders standing up for liberty.

If our country is serious about reducing our dependency on foreign oil, we need to get serious about mobilizing the infrastructure necessary to distribute and dispense the next generation of fuels.

I'm a feminist, but I think that romance has been taken away a bit for my generation.

Is the minor convenience of allowing the present generation the luxury of doubling its energy consumption every 10 years worth the major hazard of exposing the next 20,000 generations to this lethal waste?

Further, the next generation of terrorists will grow up in a digital world, with ever more powerful and easy-to-use hacking tools at their disposal.

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

The age in which we live, this non-stop distraction, is making it more impossible for the young generation to ever have the curiosity or discipline... because you need to be alone to find out anything.

Hardworking Americans are fighting every day to provide for themselves and their families, and leave a more prosperous country for the next generation.

So the experts think we could have an AIDS-free generation in Africa by 2015, even if the mothers are positive.

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.

There is good news in the data the strongest support for priests is to be found among the younger generation.

A generation of children has been betrayed.

My generation had to be taken seriously because we were stopping things and burning things. We were able to initiate change, because we had such vast numbers. We were part of the baby boom, and when we moved, everything moved with us.

I think the biggest problem in the world is that we have a generation of young people, and maybe two, who don't think it's going to get any better.