Generation Quotes

Are things getting better with each generation? Yes. It's quite interesting to be living in these times, for me to witness an African-American being elected president. It's quite extraordinary.

The truth of the matter is, all of those guys on Star Trek: The Next Generation actually want to be me. These impersonations they do are just some way of trying to feel what it must be like to be me. And I understand that! Because it feels really good to be Patrick Stewart!

In Sweden, I went to an English school, where there was a mishmash of people from all over the world. Some were diplomatic kids with a lot of money, some were ghetto kids who came up from the suburbs, and I grew up in between. There's a community of second generation immigrants, and I became part of that because I had an American father.

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

Our generation has an incredible amount of realism, yet at the same time it loves to complain and not really change. Because, if it does change, then it won't have anything to complain about.

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.

And my generation in Brazil was influenced by Cinema Novo. So we're echoing what's been done way in the past.

Nothing is more singular about this generation than its addiction to music.

All of the generations go to what is chic for them, and theater seems to be an older generation's art form.

That's why this generation is the least racist generation ever. You see it all the time. Go to any club. People are intermingling, hanging out, having fun, enjoying the same music. Hip-hop is not just in the Bronx anymore. It's worldwide. Everywhere you go, people are listening to hip-hop and partying together. Hip-hop has done that.

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.

South Central is just who I am. Even though I have a nice house, nice family, the rest of my generation is still in South Central L.A. My cousins, my brothers, my sisters, they don't wanna move out.

In the end, the American dream is not a sprint, or even a marathon, but a relay. Our families don't always cross the finish line in the span of one generation. But each generation passes on to the next the fruits of their labor.

Grandchildren are the dots that connect the lines from generation to generation.

The recent riots in France demonstrate the problem European countries face where second and third generation immigrants still do not consider themselves French, German, or English.

You need to be naive enough to do things differently. No big publishing house would have allowed us to co-create a fully designed, four color business book in landscape format - because it was contrary to the publishing industry logic. However, we thought of Business Model Generation as a product, not just a book - similar to Apple products.

Maybe there are three or four really good poets in a generation.

The information that is passed from person to person and from generation to generation is the primary factor that gives humans a competitive advantage over other animals.

Lucky individuals in each generation find technology appropriate to their needs.