Generations Quotations

We're all like little ants who scurry around with the materials that are at hand right now. Each generation finds new materials. Its just evolution, isn't it?

By providing students in our Nation with such an education, we help save our children from the clutches of poverty, crime, drugs, and hopelessness, and we help safeguard our Nation's prosperity for generations yet unborn.

I pray every day for my little girls. It's hard out there for the younger generation.

A whole generation of veteran composers has never taken a stand or provided an example and has produced in the music academies generations of docile workers for the music industry. What can you expect from downtrodden workers who see music as a type of profession, like stenography, and not an act of creation that by its nature is subversive?

I'm 100% Norwegian. Three generations removed and all continuous inbreeding of Norwegian of Minnesota and Iowa, so I traveled to Norway before.

You have to have a canon so the next generation can come along and explode it.

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.

I have come to the conclusion that none of us in our generation feels as guilty about sin as we should or as our forefathers did.

There is such a thing as food and such a thing as poison. But the damage done by those who pass off poison as food is far less than that done by those who generation after generation convince people that food is poison.

The power to mould the future of the Republic will be in the hands of the journalists of future generations.

On Earth Day, we celebrate all the gifts the world and nature make available to us. We recognize our complete dependence on its bounty. And we acknowledge the need for good stewardship to preserve its fruits for future generations.

I think my broadcast partner Mike Gorman said it best. He said there's a generation of fans who know me as a player and there's a generation of fans who know me as a coach and now there's a generation of fans who think I'm Shrek!

With our next generation hardware, polygon rendering will probably be an area we'll get more heavily into.

Each generation must recreate liberty for its own times.

I remember being awed by it - the uniqueness and nicety of style - and I suspect I was a bit jealous because we were more or less of the same generation.

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

I belonged to the generation that grew up under National Socialism, and was blinded and led astray - and allowed itself to be led astray.

My dad was a doctor and surgeon. He was the fifth generation of his family to become a doctor.

My big advantage was to have my father accept me as first-generation.

From Watergate we learned what generations before us have known; our Constitution works. And during Watergate years it was interpreted again so as to reaffirm that no one - absolutely no one - is above the law.

Women gain social influence through their roles as mothers, transmitters of culture, and parents for the next generation.

It definitely wasn't like, 'Hey, I'm going to steal that, and nobody's going to know.' The original 'T.R.O.Y.' came out in 1992, and it was like a 20th anniversary kind of thing. All of those intentions were there for it to be resurrecting a classic for a new generation. I tried to honor it.

Most of my friends between 21 and 31 are at different stages of figuring out what the hell they are going to do with their lives. It's a big part of our generation. What is the next step?

The Constitution of the United States was made not merely for the generation that then existed, but for posterity- unlimited, undefined, endless, perpetual posterity.

The creation of a world view is the work of a generation rather than of an individual, but we each of us, for better or for worse, add our brick to the edifice.

We all have a responsibility to protect endangered species, both for their sake and for the sake of our own future generations.

Politicians all too often think about the next election. Statesmen think about the next generation.

Each generation of scientists stands upon the shoulders of those who have gone before.

Nobody in America, in the modern generation, has read their mythology or legends.

As you know, Social Security functions under the premise that today's workers will help finance benefits for retirees and that these workers will then be supported by the next generation of workers paying into the same system.

Every ten years there is a new generation of actors.

The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of opinion and detail, is the one that must rule all observation.

Wherever you are, design your life. Live the values of your generation.

I grew up in a physical world, and I speak English. The next generation is growing up in a digital world, and they speak social.

It is up to us to live up to the legacy that was left for us, and to leave a legacy that is worthy of our children and of future generations.

Social Security is not just another government spending program. It is a promise from generation to generation.

Married people from my generation are like an endangered species!

I joined the Safe Climate Caucus because I believe in leaving a safer planet for future generations.

Many young Muslims see no opportunities for themselves and do not feel they have control over their lives or a stake in their nation's future. Such pessimism leads to disengagement. We risk losing a generation of young Muslims to apathy and extremism.

I believe that movies are fast becoming antique and dinosauric as a medium. Film is a medium for the over-40s and television has gone the same way. If you're going to look towards the new generation, then of course you're going to have to be a lot more random, spontaneous, irreverent and provocative with your programming.

With Star Wars fans, there's so much enthusiasm, and it's a completely different generation now.

It is, I believe, the greatest generation any society has ever produced.

Traditional marriage between a man and a woman has been a cornerstone of our society for generations. If we are going to change that, it ought to be done by the will of the people.

Let us make future generations remember us as proud ancestors just as, today, we remember our forefathers.

Every writer is a writer of the generation before.

Every generation tries to put its doctrine on a high shelf where the children can not reach it.

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

Speakers are not supposed to waste time on platitudes, but the capacity of this generation for ignoring the obvious and concentrating on the negative and the obscure is immense.

Be kind, don't judge, and have respect for others. If we can all do this, the world would be a better place. The point is to teach this to the next generation.

The death tax punishes the American dream - making it virtually impossible for the average American family to build wealth across generations.

I noticed in the late 1990s that my friends and I were already nostalgic for the 1980s, and by the turn of the century, VH1's 'I Love the '80s' gave all of us an accelerated nostalgia for our generation.

I don't know anything more piggish - I don't know anything more un-American than saying, 'Oh, I'm worried about my own little handout or my own little program or my own little economy and we'll kick this can down the road and let some future generation deal with it.

We owe at least this much to future generations, from whom we have borrowed a fragile planet called Earth.

I think I'm part of a generation of crime writers all of whom woke up independently and recoiled with horror at the fact that we'd chosen this very conservative genre.

Because the truth is, today's immigrants, as they have for generation after generation, work the longest hours at the hardest jobs for the lowest pay, jobs that are just about impossible to fill.

We know that the next several generations need a better world to live in, which can only be a post-Obama World.

With artists of my own generation there was at first no group identity - and never a clique.

You can try to reach an audience, but you just write what comes out of you and you just hope that it is accepted. You do not write specifically to a generation.

I'm Korean-American. Not Colombian. My parents are first-generation, and I'm like in-between, because I moved over here when I was four or five.

Entrepreneurs have the flexibility and the ability to do things that large companies simply cannot. Could a large company pull off a trick like Amyris, going from anti-malaria medicine to next-generation fuel?

If more politicians in this country were thinking about the next generation instead of the next election, it might be better for the United States and the world.

First, the firearms industry has been around and has been respected for generations. They provide a valuable service and a highly desirable product to millions of sportsmen and supporters of those second amendment rights.

The ukulele has always appealed to the older generation.

The thing that's been exciting about 'Superman' is to see how the character has developed through generations.

Like some kind of particularly tenacious vampire the short story refuses to die, and seems at this point in time to be a wonderful length for our generation.

Each new generation is a fresh invasion of savages.

We are seeing healing among the stolen generations, and initiatives which are enabling Indigenous people to make their distinctive contribution to our national life.

If we intend to provide a better life, and a better world, for future generations, we can't ignore the quality of the environment we leave them.

Obviously all of us have thought about Vietnam, particularly in my generation in Australia that were part of conscription and fought there. Our friends came back, forever changed. So there were a lot of questions.

Leadership is not about the next election, it's about the next generation.

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.

Friction and misunderstandings often occur when communicating across generations. It gets even more challenging when working across virtual settings.

My studio is a laptop. Everybody I work with is the same. We make computer music, we're the laptop generation.

We are the first generation of human beings to have substantial insights into the origin of our cosmos and of human life in it.

The next generation of innovators, who need neutrality the most, are not at the bargaining table. They're hard at work in their labs or classrooms, dreaming of the next big thing, and hoping that the Internet is as open to them as it was to the founders of Google.

I have no influence with the rising generation. All my arguments have failed to induce them to set bounds to their wants.

Great authors are admirable in this respect: in every generation they make for disagreement. Through them we become aware of our differences.

I'm getting more towards that point where I'm ready to kind of pass the torch on and see the next generation succeed behind me.

According to the Small Business Administration, more than 70 percent of all family businesses do not survive through the second generation, and 8 percent do not make it to a third.

Every movement that slays its gods creates new ones, of course. I loathe talk of the sixties and seventies being a 'Greatest Generation' of artists, but if we're going to use such idiotic appellations, let this one also be applied to the artists, curators, and gallerists who emerged in the first half of the nineties.

Each generation of the church in each setting has the responsibility of communicating the gospel in understandable terms, considering the language and thought-forms of that setting.

Marginal tax rates are the lowest they've been in generations, and all we can talk about is tax cuts.

My family for several generations have been members of the Unitarian Church.

Hardly any generation wants to take the whole of the last generation, it just wants to take its best bits.

The forces that are in play on climate change essentially revolve around the generation of power, the transportation of goods and services and people, and the sorts of materials that we use to fuel the whole of our civilisation.

My generation fought very hard for feminism, and we fought very hard to not be labeled as you had to have a husband or you had to be in a relationship, or you were somehow not a cool chick.

A theater is being given over to market forces, which means that a whole generation that should be able to do theater as well as see it is being completely deprived

When today's generation reads Jack's books or they listen to the music created by some of us, I believe that they see there is a different way of approaching today's life and today's sometimes seeming hopelessness that can provide answers.

Everyone always tells you that you're the only one that can do this or that role right, and if you say no, they go to somebody else and tell them that they're the only one that can do it right. But when they're talking to you, you're always the 'Best Actor of Your Generation.'

Demography is changing us as we are older societies, we're living longer. How the generations balance each other out, how that affects education and health care.

New gene pools are generated in every generation, and evolution takes place because the successful individuals produced by these gene pools give rise to the next generation.

It's hard to compare actors from different generations.

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.

Maybe you are the "cool" generation If coolness means a capacity to stay calm and use your head in the service of ends passionately believed in, then it has my admiration.

I'm really looking forward to a time when generations after us look back and say how ridiculous it was that humans were driving cars.

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

The modern minds in each generation are the critics who preserve us from a petrifying world, who will not leave us to walk undisturbed in the ways of our fathers.

It is a wonderful honor to receive the Audubon Medal from the National Audubon Society, which for more than a century has fought tirelessly to protect and preserve our natural resources and environment for future generations.

Parents who wonder where the younger generation is going should remember where it came from.

In a single generation, the Internet has given to virtually every person on the face of the earth the ability to communicate with fellow human beings on virtually any topic, at any time, and in every nook and cranny on the globe. This magnificent invention has done this without succumbing to government control.