Generation Quotes

We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go.

Our mothers' generation fought so hard to change things and we're the first generation to benefit. And now you get girls in their twenties who say they're not feminists.

Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered.

Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.

This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.

My studio is a laptop. Everybody I work with is the same. We make computer music, we're the laptop generation.

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.

I want to be the bridge to the next generation.

And I think of that again as I've written in several of my beauty books, a lot of health comes from the proper eating habits, which are something that - you know, I come from a generation that wasn't - didn't have a lot of food.

I think there is a generation gap. I personally look forward to, as our generation becomes the leaders, you are gonna see a change, and I think hopefully gay marriage will be a part of that country.

Every writer is a writer of the generation before.

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.

When you look around right now, Nashville is kind of going through another changing of guard; you're watching the Martina McBrides and the Faith Hills and all of them that have been the big stars for the last however many years, and the next generation is coming in: Miranda Lambert, Carrie Underwood, those girls.

This is a generation weaned on Watergate, and there is no presumption of innocence and no presumption of good intentions. Instead, there is a presumption that, without relentless scrutiny, the government will misbehave.

The reproduction of mankind is a great marvel and mystery. Had God consulted me in the matter, I should have advised him to continue the generation of the species by fashioning them out of clay.

My father's generation gave to my generation a land of wealth and purpose and world economic dominance.

Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors.

We don't have a prayer of defeating the Red Threat of our generation without a long boom of almost unprecedented duration.

I am going to produce a movie of my own. I am not going to stick to the time-tested formulae of Hindi cinema. I want to make a film for the present generation. So there will be a lot of new faces in the film.

I will go down as the voice of this generation, of this decade, I will be the loudest voice.

The '60s was one of the first times the power of music was used by a generation to bind them together.

A man must be sacrificed now and again to provide for the next generation of men.

Being spokesman for a generation is the worst job I ever had.

Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.

There have been great champions in every generation.

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

Tina Fey is part of a generation of women who have changed the face of comedy at 'Second City,' 'SNL,' in sitcoms and in film.

I started when I was 8 years old, which is obviously nowadays pretty late, but I guess in my generation it was all right. I had plenty of other interests and I didn't do only tennis.

After 1929, so many people had been traumatized by the stock market crash that there was a lost generation.

My daddy expected that my brothers and I and our generation would make the world a better place. He had lived in an America of continual social progress.