Generation Quotes · Page 17

Democracy has to be born anew every generation, and education is its midwife.

— John Dewey

I'm of a generation that doesn't expect automatic happiness, so I feel incredibly lucky.

— Prunella Scales

You are all a lost generation. [with credit to Gertrude Stein]

— Ernest Hemingway

You went to Woodstock and all that trash, your generation is fading fast.

— Rod Stewart

The dissenting opinions of one generation become the prevailing interpretation of the next.

— Burton J. Hendrick

Coaches around the country are influencing the next generation of men in a positive way.

— Bob Stoops

“The memoirs of call girls are much in demand these days - a millennial craze.”

— Dimitra Ekmektsis

We cannot inherit a fixed, unmoving view of life and of art from the past generation.

— Asger Jorn

I was born 20 years after World War II had ended, and people of my generation mostly thought of it as a…

— Christine Leunens

There is a whole other generation that knows me from "Arrested Development" "Scream" and, of course, "Happy Days."

— Henry Winkler

I come from a generation which definitely treated anyone older and more successful with reverence. But it's much more democratic nowadays.

— Diana Rigg

“Gen Y's work best in groups, collaboratively, transparently, interactively and entrepreneurially - and have already created positive change in many local communities…

— Charlie Caruso

The biggest benefit of Apollo was the inspiration it gave to a growing generation to get into science and aerospace.

— Buzz Aldrin

“I guess it's the curse of our generation, having to put aside our lives to do the right thing.”

— Allan Dare Pearce

“We are soon approaching a refined holiday, "Merry Mas," where Christ will be taken out of its context.”

— Anthony Liccione

For she was of that generation who, having found nothing in religion, had formed themselves through literature.

— Doris Lessing

“What is possible when a generation stops assuming that someone else will take care of the brokenness in the world - or…

— Alex Harris

I cannot stress a greater importance than to teach the young generation about the risks of unhealthy eating. A great way to…

— Marcus Samuelsson

It is a quirk of American culture that each generation of nonconservatives sees the right-wingers of its own generation as the scary…

— Rick Perlstein

What wakes me up at night is this next generation and what's happening to them. And they're invariably excited about the science…

— Francis Collins

Our generation, we grew up in being prepared for a career physically and ability wise, but it wasn't there mentally. It was…

— Darren Fletcher

While they believe the pursuit of profit is important to sustaining a business, millennials also say that pursuit must be accompanied by…

— Punit Renjen

For years now, Chinese parents and teachers have lamented what's known as the 'xiao huangdi' - or little emperor - phenomenon, a…

— Jeffrey Kluger

I've struggled so much, growing up, with just feeling that my life is valid because it's not filled with these hyper-dramatic moments,…

— Ellar Coltrane

I look at Lil Wayne as being from my generation.

— Timbaland

I'm the most successful person in my generation of family members, and that sucks.

— Ice Cube

Luckily, each generation brings forth great writers, actors, directors, and designers.

— Harriet Walter

F. Scott Fitzgerald is the first of the last generation.

— Gertrude Stein

Perhaps I was born too early. I was more the painter of your generation than of mine.

— Paul Cezanne

Every generation welcomes the pirates from the last.

— Lawrence Lessig

This generation doesn't understand the real meaning of love!

— Anonymous

The training of younger generations is very close to my heart.

— Fabiola Gianotti

Public service is a core value for people of my generation.

— Stephen A. Schwarzman

A lot of times, older people don't get the new generation.

— Mike Will Made It

I'm known as a voice for a generation of people that don't have a voice.

— Machine Gun Kelly

I'd like to be remembered as good person and as one of the best comedians of my generation.

— Hannibal Buress

I highly dislike the generation I've been growing up in. I wish things were different.

— Anonymous

A generation which ignores history has no past — and no future.

— Robert A. Heinlein

The experience of our generation: that capitalism will not die a natural death.

— Walter Benjamin

Every generation brings its own presentation of what hip-hop is to them.

— KRS-One