Generations Quotations | Page 2

You want to teach the next generation so they can learn a little bit faster and a little bit more so everything becomes that much better.

Democracy is something that you must learn each generation. It has to be taught.

It is possible to lead astray an entire generation, to strike it blind, to drive it insane, to direct it towards a false goal. Napoleon proved this.

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.

Hardworking Americans are fighting every day to provide for themselves and their families, and leave a more prosperous country for the next generation.

Every generation renews itself in its own way; there's always a reaction against whatever is standard.

I believe that whoever is successful should help ensure that the next generation can be successful, too.

Music is not supposed to be nationalist. It is supposed to surpass language barriers. It is about generations communicating with each other.

The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability. Our business in every generation is to reclaim a little more land, to add something to the extent and the solidity of our possessions.

I've been pitching a show of five female stand-up comedians through the generations, from Phyllis Diller to Amy Schumer, so when I got an e-mail asking me if I would participate in the Women in Comedy Festival, I was thrilled.

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked.

Social Security is a program that should be strengthened and preserved for future generations.

Really, each era has its own false nostalgia. We all put a picket fence up around something. For my generation it was the '50s, and for other generations it will be something else. Change is scary for everyone, as is complexity, contradiction, and an uncertain future.

War is devastating, and it leaves its scars for generations.

It was both Abraham's and the Jews' privilege also that they should have this promise to all generations.

The bottom line: if you want a happier family, create, refine and retell the story of your family's positive moments and your ability to bounce back from the difficult ones. That act alone may increase the odds that your family will thrive for many generations to come.

As the Constitution endures, persons in every generation can invoke its principles in their own search for greater freedom.

Unaware of the absurdity of it, we introduce our own petty household rules into the economy of the universe for which the life of generations, peoples, of entire planets, has no importance in relation to the general development.

Each generation of pilots hopes that they will leave their profession better off than they found it.

As patients and consumers, we are better informed today about our health care than any previous generation.

I forever felt that I've fallen right between the crack of way too young for the first generation of classic rock 'n' roll and too old to be brand-new. It's hard.

Our grandfathers had to run, run, run. My generation's out of breath. We ain't running no more.

Every generation is gonna keep changing, and you just have to embrace the change.

Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience... from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation.

I absolutely refuse to accept the fact that any country in the world goes into a kind of film-making crisis. What happens is they lose confidence, they lose focus and the young film-makers of any particular generation can very easily get lost in that mix. It's happened in Italy, happened in France, happened in the U.K. during my lifetime.

When William the Conqueror commissioned a great survey of his English realm at Gloucester in 1085, the result was a work so thorough, fair, dispassionate, and wide-ranging that it seemed to the succeeding generations to have come from another world.

In 2005 we have a once in a generation opportunity to deliver a modern Marshall plan for the developing world.

After all, the universe required ten billion years of evolution before life was even possible; the evolution of the stars and the evolving of new chemical elements in the nuclear furnaces of the stars were indispensable prerequisites for the generation of life.

I knew I could never match my father as a violinist, and there were already four generations of outstanding cellists in the family.

I'm part of that generation that grew up watching TV, and being an actor was all about being on TV or being in films.

This society in which we live is radically changing. What previous generations saw as evil is now embraced as being good. It is a dangerous and slippery slope upon which we stand when we reject what Solomon called the beginning of wisdom - the fear of God.

While it may take generations of nurturing, nations founded on and grounded in freedom will eventually overcome and prosper. Once free, folks rarely accept anything less, and that includes Iraqis.

An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.

The evidence that I see around me in society indicates that not only is thinking very much out of favor, but I'm not sure that the last couple of generations - Generation X and Generation Next, or whatever you want to call them - even know what a thought is, having been raised to be women.

All social workers want is to get everyone involved in a programme. Because a programme provides full employment for three generations of social workers. And they mess up.

It's a great pleasure having survived six generations of TV critics

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

The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure - if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to the generation which says if you don't like it, you don't understand and you ought to find out.

I have had much to learn from Sweden's poetry and, more especially, from her lyrics of the last generation.

Investing in women's lives is an investment in sustainable development, in human rights, in future generations - and consequently in our own long-term national interests.

If you hide information from people, don't want people to see the Ten Commandments or don't want people to hear about Darwin, aren't we hiding things that we know from our future generations? I just think that that's incorrect.

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.

How should we begin to make amends for raising a generation obsessed with the pursuit of material wealth and indifferent to so much else?

Hopefully, generations after us will continue to protect, preserve, and look after this wonderful land.

From Dickens's cockneys to Salinger's phonies, from Kerouac's beatniks to Cheech and Chong's freaks, and on to hip hop's homies, dialect has always been used as a way for generations to distinguish themselves.

I would love to expose multiple younger generations to Frank's music. It's not an easy task because It's not ever going to be plastered all over the radio for the masses.

Architecture has always been a very idealistic profession. It's about making the world a better place and it works over the generations because people go on vacation and they look for it.

But the history of the changes produced by a universal idea is not a history of changes in the individual, but of changes brought about by the successive efforts of millions of individuals in the course of many generations.

All around us are the consequences of the most significant technological, and hence cultural, revolution in generations.

Sometimes we deny being worthy of praise, hoping to generate an argument we would be pleased to lose.

I think I'm the most positive guy still going in my generation, and I'm out there to prove that.

My sister and my brother, of whom I have not spoken before, were considerably older than I; it seemed almost as if we belonged to different generations.

I had heard so much negative talk about our generation, that we're slackers and young fogies, that I knew wasn't true of the people I know.

If you're from a certain generation, you basically learn to read with 'Peanuts.' It's sort of the template for the modern strip. Its influence ceased to be noticed because it's in everything.

The World War II generation believed the United States could do anything - anything... And Vietnam was a shattering experience for everyone.

After 1929, so many people had been traumatized by the stock market crash that there was a lost generation.

For in this century, within the next decades, will be decided for generations whether all mankind is to become Communist, whether the whole world is to become free, or whether, in the struggle, civilization as we know it is to be completely destroyed or completely changed.

There have been great champions in every generation.

Items of interest will be located, identified, monitored, and remotely controlled through technologies such as radio-frequency identification, sensor networks, tiny embedded servers, and energy harvesters - all connected to the next-generation internet using abundant, low-cost, and high-power computing.

One of the things I want to do as an artist is to connect generations.

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.

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

If we create a generation of men who aren't getting an education, that's bad for women.

Every new generation of SF writers remakes cyberpunk - a genre often laced with dystopian subtexts - in its own image.

A whole new generation is looking at the videos, and going to the video shop and buying the re-release of the complete trilogy, which you can buy at a reasonable price.

Despite its enormous power and wealth, China's ruling elite remains absolutely petrified that the free flow of information will undermine its political legitimacy, particularly among China's younger generation.

This is a generation weaned on Watergate, and there is no presumption of innocence and no presumption of good intentions. Instead, there is a presumption that, without relentless scrutiny, the government will misbehave.

My generation is having its midlife crisis in its 20s.

Being spokesman for a generation is the worst job I ever had.

My parents' generation's benchmark was simple: Fat Equals Bad.

I'm sure there were plenty of loving, attentive mothers in the 'me generation,' but none of them lived at my house.

Isn't it a shame that future generations can't be here to see all the wonderful things we're doing with their money?

I took on the sins of everybody, of a generation, really.

The most basic task of any museum must be the protection of works of cultural significance entrusted to its care for the edification and pleasure of future generations.

You know, I come from six generations of college graduates.

Thus the sum of things is ever being reviewed, and mortals dependent one upon another. Some nations increase, others diminish, and in a short space the generations of living creatures are changed and like runners pass on the torch of life.

Every generation deals with the breaking down of its tradition, and I think that they rediscovered the film.

Who will take responsibility for raising the next generation?

My efforts in Congress are guided by the belief that environmental preservation and restoration are a critical part of the legacy we leave to future generations.

Everybody's not going to like jazz, let's just be honest about it. Everybody doesn't like everything. There's a disconnect in generations and some people just aren't going to feel that music.

There is a mysterious cycle in human events. To some generations much is given. Of other generations much is expected. This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.

I want to be the bridge to the next generation.

I think my whole generation's mission is to kill the cliche.

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

Second-generation Hispanics marry non-Hispanics at a higher rate than second-generation Irish or Italians. Second-generation Hispanics' English language capability rates are higher than previous immigrant groups'.

That sense of sacredness, that thinking in generations, must begin with reverence for this earth.

If baking is any labor at all, it's a labor of love. A love that gets passed from generation to generation.

But there is a need to explore ways we can preserve the promise of Social Security for future generations.

Rock is young music, it is youth oriented. It just speaks for a generation.

I'd love to be the political voice of my generation, but that's not my gift.

It is very remarkable, that in the book of life, we find some almost of all kinds of occupations, who notwithstanding served God in their respective generations, and shone as so many lights in the world.

Education can counteract the natural tendency to do the wrong thing, but the inexorable succession of generations requires that the basis for this knowledge be constantly refreshed.

Over many generations, fortunes in the business world were made through buying and selling products in physical stores. Internet fortunes have been made buying and selling products online.

I believe in my heart that 'Avatar' is going to be the revolutionary sci-fi movie for this generation, in this era.

This nation is never finished. It has to be re-created in each generation.

I think that any wealth creates a sense of trusteeship... it is characteristic of the new generation which has created wealth to have some amount of responsibility for it.

My parents always went to rallies and demonstrated against certain things; my generation, we often have a political conscience, but we're not that involved.

Specifically, I am concerned about the long-term condition of Social Security. I am committed to ensuring that current beneficiaries and those nearing retirement face no reduction in benefits, while preserving this vital program for future generations.

I'm interested in themes that endure from generation to generation.

Civil rights happened because youth got involved. The youth stood up and helped to break the pattern that their parents had got accustomed to living. The next generation has to take that stand for whatever it is, socially, that they are involved in.