Generation Quotes
- Page 5I'm optimistic that we are actually seeing the opportunity of a generation being created in this.
Peter Mandelson
When you're a caregiver, you need to realize that you've got to take care of yourself, because, not only are you going to have to rise to the occasion and help someone else, but you have to model for the next generation.
Naomi Judd
I think eventually I want to become a teacher, like my father wanted to be, and hopefully positively influence the next generation.
Ann Curry
Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience... from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
And because he knows that we don't have an ounce of talent to waste, the president took action to lift the shadow of deportation from a generation of young, law-abiding immigrants called dreamers.
Julian Castro
A characteristic of older folksongs, in most cases, is that we don't know their composers or authors. Older folksongs were written often with no commercial purpose in mind. They were passed down by word of mouth, from generation to generation.
Tom Glazer
The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records, to absorb its lessons and relate them to its own problems, history, too, would lose its meaning.
George F. Kennan
These companies know that at their current size they're not going to be big enough to have the necessary capital, and they don't have enough spectrum to get to the third generation.
Steve Largent
Well, the big elephant in the whole system is the baby boomer generation that marches through like a herd of elephants. And we begin to retire in 2008.
Lindsey Graham
I think singing traditional country is wonderful, because I'm bringing it to my generation and to the younger kids.
LeAnn Rimes
The Greatest Generation got to save old tires, dig a Victory Garden and forgo sugar. The Richest Generation is being asked to shop.
Margaret Carlson
I want to be able to look back and say, 'I've done everything I can, and I was successful.' I don't want to look back and say I should have done this or that. I'd like to change things for the younger generation of swimmers coming along.
Michael Phelps
We must work together to save and strengthen Social Security not just for my father's generation but also for my daughters' generation.
John Thune
Each generation wants new symbols, new people, new names. They want to divorce themselves from their predecessors.
Jim Morrison
I wish to share and pass down some of my generation's traits, and encourage young people to create their own art, music, and literature.
David Amram
When I get my hands on painting materials I don't give a damn about other people's painting... every generation must start again afresh.
Maurice de Vlaminck
In our generation, the role models were Gandhi and Nehru. We revered them. They were venerated personalities. I read almost every speech of Nehru.
Pranab Mukherjee
All in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and dedicated to flight, I was disappointed by the wrinkle in history that had brought me along one generation late. I had missed all the great times and adventures in flight.
Neil Armstrong
I always say, 'Man, the Creator is preparing me for something. He's keeping the sun on me for some reason. He's keeping me aligned with that generation.' Because I genuinely love people, I love hip-hop, and I love using it as a tool to communicate and to create a better vibration.
Doug E. Fresh
Today's younger generation is no worse than my own. We were just as ignorant and repulsive as they are, but nobody listened to us.
Al Capp
I believe we need to attract a new generation of the best and brightest to public service and I believe that government can be a source of inspiration, not degradation.
Andrew Cuomo
Politicians all too often think about the next election. Statesmen think about the next generation.
Linda Lingle
I didn't fully realize it at the time, but the goal of my life was profoundly molded by this experience - to help produce, in the next generation, more Mother Teresas and less Hitlers.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
I do think that some of us began to realize that this was going to be a long struggle that was going to go on for decades, and you'd have to knuckle down. A lot of people in our generation did that. They didn't drop out and run away.
Julian Bond
The first generation of CDs sounded terrible. Any chance to remaster would make the music sound better than what was already out there.
Lou Reed