Generation Quotes · Page 21

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

— Emile M. Cioran

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

— Ken Starr

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

— Anthony Kennedy

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

— Caroline Ghosn

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

— Syd

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

— D. A. Carson

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

— Abigail George

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

— Ted Rall

I'm a second-generation migrant. My parents came to this country from Pakistan, just like the Windrush generation.

— Sajid Javid

Appropriation was the language of my generation in many ways. It came out of Duchamp, Warhol, Johns, Lichtenstein.

— Deborah Kass

I have seen incredible bravery from very young guys, the young generation that people write off.

— Ross Kemp

For the first time in the history of mankind, one generation literally has the power to destroy the past, the present and…

— Hubert H. Humphrey

“Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to…

— John F. Kennedy

Millennials are much more informed than they get credit for, and many are more politically knowledgeable than older generations.

— Cenk Uygur

Conservatives recognize that college campuses and their frames of reality have an outsized impact on the culture, training the next generation of…

— Ben Domenech

If every nation gets the government it deserves, every generation writes the history which corresponds with its view of the world.

— Elizabeth Janeway

I think every writer of detective fiction writing today has been influenced by Mr. Parker. I'm of a generation that followed Robert…

— Robert Crais

Every generation must find its mission and fulfill it, as Fanon said - or betray it. So it is not something that…

— Chinua Achebe

Every movement that slays its gods creates new ones, of course. I loathe talk of the sixties and seventies being a 'Greatest…

— Jerry Saltz

Magoo's appeal lies in our hostility toward an older generation. But he's not only nearsighted physically. His mind is selective of what…

— Jim Backus

We come from a generation where the music was very innovative, a lot of it coming out of blues and influenced by…

— Paul Rodgers

From the coffee bars of Camden to the gin joints of Norfolk - across Britain, a revolution is brewing. And no, it's…

— Liz Truss

The strong emergence of pro-feminine values in highly masculine societies signals that traditional masculine structures will continue to be challenged as the…

— John Gerzema

The generation of youth in the early 21st century has no way of grasping if they will ever be free from the…

— Henry Giroux

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

— Jay Baer

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

— Christian Cage

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

— Robert E. Lee

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

— Geoffrey Ward

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

— Tinie Tempah

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

— Gustav Niebuhr

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

— Sunday Adelaja

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

— Luke Timothy Johnson

Our generation has been described as a golden generation. I hate that term.

— Vincent Kompany

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

— Laurence Overmire

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

— Fiona Shaw

I get to be one of the torch-bearers for a new generation.

— Jim Cummings

People from my father's generation didn't have the luxury to be unhappy in their job.

— Dulquer Salmaan

I get a kick out of helping the next generation of founders.

— Taavet Hinrikus

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

— Tom Brokaw

It is not obligatory for a generation to have great men.

— Jose Ortega y Gasset