Generations Quotations | Page 4

I see the whole concept of Generation X implies that everyone has lost hope.

I was the Marlon Brando of my generation.

That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.

I was actually away in Africa doing 'Generation Kill' while everyone was auditioning for Twilight. They all had, like, five different auditions: I was so lucky that I came back from Africa just in time and the actor who was playing Emmett fell through, lucky for me!

Education is the investment our generation makes in the future.

Deficits mean future tax increases, pure and simple. Deficit spending should be viewed as a tax on future generations, and politicians who create deficits should be exposed as tax hikers.

When I was growing up, I, like many Jews, cheered what appeared to be the receding of faith from everyday life. The further religion got from our lives the better our lives would get, I thought, because persecution had been such a burden to Jewish families for generations.

A song is only as strong as its foundation, and when it comes so naturally in any setting, those are the songs that will hopefully outlive you, maybe even outlive the next generation of You.

We need to remember across generations that there is as much to learn as there is to teach.

A lot of people from my generation of music are so focused on playing things correctly or to perfection that they're stuck in that safe place.

For so many generations, a woman's only career path was to marry well and to marry up. Those days have changed.

I didn't realize there are generations who do not know about the origins of film.

The premise of 'The Originals' are places that have been open 50, 60, 75, 100 years or longer that are still doing it right that maybe a lot of people, particularly the younger generations, have not even thought about.

What has been forgotten is that there were major intellectual breakthroughs in the 1960s, thanks to North American writers of an older generation. There was a rupture in continuity, since most young people influenced by those breakthroughs did not enter the professions.

I've always had great respect for Paddington because he is amusingly English and eccentric. He is a great British institution and my generation grew up with the books and then Michael Horden's animations.

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.

I want to be able to infuse some youthful energy and comedy while appreciating the generations before.

The thing that makes my generation The Greatest is our ability to hang out. We're spectacular at it. If you take somebody from my generation and sit them on a couch and bring them food and plumbing, they'll sit there and talk to you about anything you want until the day you die.

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

I don't need a successor, only willing hands to accept the torch for a new generation.

To me, the failure of liberalism - the tradition I come from - was not recognizing there has to be justice across the generations.

If you grew up in my generation, you're going to be influenced by Run DMC, the Beastie Boys and also listen to Metallica - it wasn't segregated anymore.

Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.

All that self-expression has just created a generation of morons, hooked on an endless appetite for rubbish.

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

There really have only ever been a few people in each generation who step out, are willing to put themselves on the line, and risk everything for their beliefs.

No member of our generation who wasn't a Communist or a dropout in the thirties is worth a damn.

Previous generations understood about death, and undoubtedly would have seen a reasonable amount of death. Once you get into the Victorian era, you might well have seen the funerals of many of your siblings before you were very old.

When punk came along, I found my generation's music. I grew up listening to the Beatles and the Rolling Stones and Pink Floyd, 'cause that was what got played in the house. But when I first saw the Stranglers, I thought, 'This is it.'

We will be remembered only if we give to our younger generation a prosperous and safe India, resulting out of economic prosperity coupled with civilizational heritage.

We wonder if we will be the first generation in American history to leave our children with fewer opportunities and a less prosperous nation than the one we inherited.

The only way you can invent tomorrow is if you break out of the enclosure that the school system has provided for you by the exams written by people who are trained in another generation.

It's obviously tricky to convert cellulose to a useful biofuel. I think actually the most efficient way to use cellulose is to burn it in a co-generation power plant. That will yield the most energy and that is something you can do today.

The whole slacker generation totally didn't apply to us musically.

It changed me more than anything else. You don't want to get to that place where you're the adult and you're palpably in the next generation. And, this shoved me into that.

Bordeaux would be naive not to recognize that Robert Parker was driving the brand equity. If the next generation doesn't care about Chateau Pichon-Lalande, then you have a problem.

What I love about sci-fi is that every generation's films are based on what we know at that point in time. We make movies about the future, but it's always based on what we have. Then, as science grows and we discover new things, so do our ideas.

My father was like the Old Testament. I am the New Testament. I am part of a new generation. In time, people will realize this.

I feel like I'm a product of this generation where everybody listens to charts with diverse music.

My only problem with fans is when they turn pro. For example, when all the professional writers were fired by DC in the '60s, they brought in a generation of comic book fans who would have paid to have written these stories.

Each generation has a backlash against the generation before.

I begin to feel like I was in the last generation of Americans who took a civics class.

The hippie movement politicized my generation. When it ended, we all started looking back at our own history, looking, in my case, for motives of rebellion.

There's a generation of children who don't like black and white movies. There's a level of impatience or intolerance.

Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.

I was part of a generation that changed the world, and it was taken over by posers.

My family's lineage is five generations of artists who never made it.

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

I always love working with young actors, because there's always something to learn. It's always exciting to see the next generation and how they approach things and what's great about them and what's not so great about them.

My generation of the Sixties, with all our great ideals, destroyed liberalism, because of our excesses.

My mind-set is Munich. Most of my generation's is Vietnam.

I did go to Wellesley, a women's college. And I am of a kind of strange generation which is transitional in terms of women who wanted to go out and get jobs.

It's hard for a Jew of my generation, an American Jew, who is philo-Zionistic, not to romanticize Israel.

Who's to say that there is any more support for Freud's psychoanalytic concept of the superego than there is for that old time religion that asserted that there is a God who ordains what is right and wrong, and that His righteousness endures for all generations?

When I do my shows, it's really cross-generational. Sometimes there's three generations there.

Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans - born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace.

The public school system doesn't get everybody. Every generation has its rebels.

I want to reach a new generation. That's why I am Twittering now. I have a BlackBerry, an iPhone and a Mac.

We need the next generation to be motivated and to push technological boundaries, to seek out new innovations.

We have a new generation of very rich people who want to do more with their money than buy a lot of expensive toys. They want to live meaningful lives.

For conservatives, the issue is that for generations now, they have failed to make the case for their values. They haven't even conveyed conservative values to many of their children. And when they have, the university has often succeeded in undoing them.

I was surprised by the response of young people because there is a perception that those younger than the 1988 generation are not interested in politics.

I look at other members of my generation who have basically done one thing, and one thing well, and have been handsomely rewarded for it.

It's sometimes comical to hear the younger generation ask their peers to repeat themselves.

Sometimes, reading a blog, which I do infrequently, I see that generations of Americans have been wilfully crippled, and can no longer spell or write a sentence.

A first-generation fortune is the most likely to be given away, but once a fortune is inherited it's less likely that a very high percentage will go back to society.

Countries which receive aid do graduate. Within a generation, Korea went from being a big recipient to being a big aid donor. China used to get quite a bit of aid; now it's aid-neutral.

So there really was a whole series of things that took the women of my generation a little bit of time to push forward.

The only way to create a foundational document that could stand the test of time was to build in enough flexibility that later generations would be able to adapt it to their own needs and uses.

My generation is under-entertained.

We are raising a generation of young Americans who are, to a very large degree, historically illiterate. It's not their faults. There's no problem about enlisting their interest in history. None. The problem is the teachers so often have no history in their background.

Torturous advances won over generations can be lost by a single stroke of a myopic president's pen or a vainglorious general's sword.

We are watching the beginnings of the defiant self-assertion of a new generation of Americans, a generation who are looking forward to finishing their education with no jobs, no future, but still saddled with enormous and unforgivable debt.

Every breath is a sacrament, an affirmation of our connection with all other living things, a renewal of our link with our ancestors and a contribution to generations yet to come. Our breath is a part of life's breath, the ocean of air that envelopes the earth.

We are upsetting the atmosphere upon which all life depends. In the late 80s when I began to take climate change seriously, we referred to global warming as a "slowmotion catastrophe" one we expected to kick in perhaps generations later. Instead, the signs of change have accelerated alarmingly.

He plants to benefit another generation.

It is very common with artists who are of a generation that has already gone by to get overly concerned with, Oh my God I have to sell to the younger generation.

The smouldering eroticism of great European actresses like Jeanne Moreau demonstrated to my generations women's archetypal mystery and glamour, completely missing from the totalitarian world-view of the misogynist Foucault. For me, the big French D is not Derrida, but Deneuve.

Everyone of my generation who preached free love is responsible for AIDS.

But when I start to kiss someone - lust is the easiest emotion to generate.

If we raise a generation of students who dont believe in the process of science, who think everything that weve come to know about nature and the universe can be dismissed by a few sentences translated into English from some ancient text, youre not going to continue to innovate,

It is the generation of the unemphatic. Steal, kill, lie, fornicate, but beware of indulging with conviction.

A society like ours, which professes no one religion and has allowed all religions to decay, which indulges freedom to the point of license and individualism to the point of anarchy, needs all the support that responsible, cultivated homes can furnish. I hope your generation will provide a firmer shelter for civilized standards.

We're currently living with a generation of established novelists who are embarrassingly out of date with respect to social networking, internet skills, and so on.

If the church marries herself to the spirit of the times, she will find herself a widow in the next generation.

Noise is relative to the silence preceeding it. The more absolute the hush, the more shocking the thunderclap. Our masters have not heard the peoples voice for generations, Evey and it is much, much louder than they care to remember.

Our masters have not heard the people's voice for generations and it is much, much louder than they care to remember.

The number one problem in today's generation and economy is the lack of financial literacy.

The next generation product almost never comes from the previous generation.

In every generation the number of the righteous is small. Be sure you are among them.

A whole new generation of Christians has come up believing that it is possible to 'accept' Christ without forsaking the world.

It doesn't hurt to look 75 to 100 years out, That's a gift to future generations.

You know I've got a generator that's still popping.

Every generation must recognize and embrace the task it is peculiarly designed by history and by providence to perform.

Im mad keen on recycling because Im worried about the next generation and where all this waste were producing is going. It has to stop. I wash out my plastic containers and recycle envelopes, everything I possibly can.

The immense profundity of thought in vulgar locutions, like holes dug by generations of ants.

Every work of science great enough to be well remembered for a few generations affords some exemplification of the defective state of the art of reasoning of the time when it was written; and each chief step in science has been a lesson in logic.

I come from a long line of generations!

As a Green, my goal is to put a smile on the face of the coming generations.

The 2011 riots in England, which left five dead and caused more than $300 million in property damage, were fueled by a generation of young Brits who grew up without ever hearing the word No.