Generation Quotes · Page 30

Every generation is obsessed with the decade before they were born.

— Fiona Shaw

We are the last generation with a real opportunity to save the world.

— Laurence Overmire

Every generation that comes from this family has to do better than the last.

— Tinie Tempah

History can't tell us. Each generation must define itself.

— Geoffrey Ward

“Invest your evaporating time and leave a legacy behind for future generations.”

— Sunday Adelaja

“The terrorism has been a generation growing. It'll take a generation to knock it out.”

— Gustav Niebuhr

It is a form of generational narcissism to change texts to suit one's own needs.

— Luke Timothy Johnson

To assume the gospel in one generation is to lose it in the next.

— D. A. Carson

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

— Arthur Peacocke

I love his music because he was my generation. But then again, Elvis is everyone's generation, and he always will be.

— Margaret Thatcher

I think Afghanistan has turned into the Vietnam of my generation, only with a better homecoming.

— Brandon Webb

What interests me is the idea that classics is actually quite democratic. It isn't only the toff, upper-class subject it's often thought…

— Mary Beard

I'm sure it's why I'm such an odd duck in my feminist generation, because I've always been equally fair to men.

— Nancy Friday

That is what you are. That's what you all are...All of you young people who served in the war. You are a…

— Gertrude Stein

When I was in high school, in my generation, I thought that you got a logical, sensible job, or you got married.

— Vicki Lawrence

Generation after generation can't just be loaded with more and more nuclear weapons and not ultimately dance to that music.

— Marianne Williamson

With regard to electric vehicles, I am all for them because most of the incremental electricity needed to run those vehicles will…

— Aubrey McClendon

I think the Baby Boom does have a tendency to get its nose in everything. The Greatest Generation had a better tendency…

— P. J. O'Rourke

We want the next generation of products being innovated to reflect our users. And when women are not part of the equation,…

— Margo Georgiadis

All of us would like to have our children and their grandchildren grow up with at least the level of prosperity that…

— Henry Paulson

My daddy thought - no, he expected - that my brothers and I and our generation would make the world a better…

— Wynton Marsalis

Woe to the generation of sons who find their censers empty of the rich incense of prayer, whose fathers have been too…

— Edward McKendree Bounds

We are raising a generation that has a woefully small stock of ideas and interests and emotions. It must be amused at…

— Robert McCracken

We are raising today's children in sterile, risk-averse and highly structured environments. In so doing, we are failing to cultivate artists, pioneers…

— Darell Hammond

“They parade for us In zoos - in portraits Of every generation.”

— Abigail George

I want to say I hate my generation, but I don't.

— Syd

We must look to the rising generation for the restoration of the country.

— Robert E. Lee

Growing up, 'Mean' Gene was the voice of my generation.

— Christian Cage

95% of millennials say their friends are the most credible source of product information.

— Jay Baer

I think we're the first generation to successfully integrate American society.

— Ted Rall

It's wonderful to be with people of a younger generation. it really is.

— Sheila Hancock

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

— Don Tapscott

“The young generation is not here to push you OUT but to push you UP!”

— Cecilia Chan

I'm nicknaming millennials 'the purpose generation' because we're making so many decisions.

— Caroline Ghosn

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

— Anthony Kennedy

As you may know, I'm a native Texan. In fact I'm a fifth generation Texan.

— Ken Starr

Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors.

— Emile M. Cioran

How do you reach a generation that listens with its eyes and thinks with its feelings?

— Ravi Zacharias

Being on 'The Voice,' I have a voice. I'm speaking for my generation, and that's huge.

— Brynn Cartelli

I don't give a damn about my reputation. You're living in the past, it's a new generation.

— Joan Jett