Generation Quotes

We're all so clogged with dead ideas passed from generation to generation that even the best of us don't know the way out.

This generation should entertain this generation. It's only fair. When I was a kid, I mowed the lawn. Now, somebody else's kid can mow the lawn.

I've always said, since I got to know him and wrote about him, that he's the generation he least appeals to is his own and I think in many ways he was born middle-aged and that's become apparent in recent years.

If Iran becomes a nuclear weapon state it is the end of non-proliferation as we know it. If Iran gets a nuclear weapon you are likely to see Saudi, Egypt and other countries follow suit and we will bequeath to the next generation a nuclear arms race in the world's most unstable region.

When the painting is hanging on your wall for a long time, you don't notice it. You get tired of it, even if it's a Picasso. When the next generation inherits the painting, they sell it. I don't want to be sold.

My idea is always to reach my generation. The wise writer writes for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterward.

Medicare and Social Security have created the healthiest and most financially secure generation of senior citizens in American history.

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

The awareness that health is dependent upon habits that we control makes us the first generation in history that to a large extent determines its own destiny.

I believe that political correctness can be a form of linguistic fascism, and it sends shivers down the spine of my generation who went to war against fascism.

Every generation needs a new revolution.

What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!

No art that is not in the end understood by the People can live or ever did live a single generation.

Of course, I'm drawn to a place like Iraq because It's the biggest story of our generation.

Bringing an end to the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians may help the young Arab generation to realise their aspirations. Israel is more than willing to offer our experience in building a modern economy in spite of limited resources to the whole region.

One has to nurture a new generation, to raise children in the spirit of Islam.

I'm showing the younger generation your career doesn't have to be over when you're 16-years-old.

Led Zeppelin has been there through three generations of teenage angst. And there's a generation of kids now who won't know it, post-Linkin Park.

My friends and I took songwriting very, very seriously. My hero was and still is Bob Dylan, but also people like Leonard Cohen and Joni Mitchell and that whole generation.

In my opinion, Al Moritz may be the best poet of his generation in Canada.

I think the new generation is much more demanding about respect for the environment than we have ever imagined.

As a consequence of the terms of the Treaty of Versailles, the officer corps of the old army became part of this class, as did that part of the younger generation who, in the old Germany, would have become officers or civil servants.

Our hope is to deliver an incredibly fun and compelling game that will give the fans more than what they've been waiting for, and show a whole new generation of gamers how much fun it is to live the life of a pirate!

Each generation should be made to bear the burden of its own wars, instead of carrying them on, at the expense of other generations.

When the target audience is American teenage kids, you can have problems. My generation prized really fine acting and writing. Sometimes you have to go back to the basic principles which underpin great visual comedy.

I never got away from the war. Not because I was obsessed with it in those years, but because it was the event of my generation and I started out covering it so I stayed with it.

Only a generation of readers will span a generation of writers.

Generation X is dead. It has come to mean anyone aged 13 to 55 years old.

The White House isn't the place to learn how to deal with international crisis, the balance of power, war and peace, and the economic future of the next generation.

I'm an independent. I'm a centrist. A new generation is arriving that has grown up with a multiplicity of choice in every aspect of their lives, and yet politics is the last place that they are told that they should be satisfied with a choice between brand A and brand B. It doesn't fit the way they think. It doesn't fit the way they live.