Generation Quotes

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.

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

Married people from my generation are like an endangered species!

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.

There is one candidate in this election who will protect that dream. One leader who will fight hard to keep the promise of America for the next generation. And that's why we must stand up and make Mitt Romney the next president of the United States.

Maybe our generation is more about sex, but it feels like romance is dying out.

The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generation.

It's a younger generation running the show, and I miss the generation we had in the '70s. They were really very honorable guys, like Neal Bogart and Bill Graham, people who will never be around again.

The rise to prominence of the Saudi novel in Arabic is the great man-bites-dog of recent world literature. Saudi Arabia is a country without a free press, where European styles and forms are distrusted and where the female half of the population became literate only in this generation.

It does not have to be that the greatest generation is behind us. It does not have to be that our children will have a lower standard of living. It will be that way if we choose to believe that. I choose not to believe that.

The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind.

Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But many in the world lack these luxuries. How do you practice without such tryout venues?

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.

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.

One of the most special things about the city of New Orleans is how diverse a people we really are. There's been a new generation of individuals that have all grown up together, so I don't really see myself as a White mayor. I've never seen New Orleans as a Black city.

Genius is the very eye of intellect and the wing of thought; it is always in advance of its time, and is the pioneer for the generation which it precedes.