Generation Quotes · Page 40

Gen. David Petraeus, commander of U.S. troops in Iraq, Afghanistan and at Centcom, is probably the most decorated officer of his generation.

— David Ignatius

There are few countries in the world where you can go in one generation from immigrant to parliamentarian.

— Kemi Badenoch

Maybe President Trump will turn out to be a fabulously successful president who will endear the millennial generation to the Right anew.

— Kristen Soltis Anderson

I was in a Printing-house in Hell, and saw the method in which knowledge is transmitted from generation to generation.

— William Blake

My parents' generation grew up high on the Arab nationalism that Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser brandished in the 1950s.

— Mona Eltahawy

I do care what my daughter thinks and what the future generation of whoever is down the line will think.

— Lee Isaac Chung

Perhaps every generation thinks of itself as a lost generation and perhaps every generation is right.

— Erica Jong

“Every generation gets stuck in own youth and then scolds succeeding generations for sticking in their youth.”

— Bryanna Reid

People often refer to bygone days as a simpler time. Perhaps, more accurately, my grandparents' generation focused better on what mattered. Traffic…

— Kristina McMorris

We believe that the next generation of powerful mobile companies have a deep understanding of the world as a unified whole, where…

— Evan Spiegel

The young generation can influence their elders and can make them understand the environmental problems that are faced by us today. The…

— Oren Lyons

The talk-box thing that T-Pain does is something new and different for this generation because they don't know about Zapp or Teddy…

— Keith Sweat

The things I learned from my parents, what was deeply ingrained in their generation, is this idea of opportunity and the freedom…

— Sebastian Stan

I am concerned that Millennials are stressed out. They have a higher suicide rate than other generations at their same age. They…

— Chip Espinoza

For some in my generation, Sept. 11th was a moment of political awakening. For others, the Iraq War or the financial crisis…

— Kristen Soltis Anderson

It's really exciting to get the Paralympic sport out there and inspire the next generation - I remember watching the Athens 2004…

— Ellie Simmonds

For me, I really enjoy telling stories and helping the younger generation, young actors to have the same opportunity I did.

— Michael B. Jordan

No single crisis shapes a generation; but a succession of events, each one bringing its shaping blows to bear.

— Han Suyin

Every so often, you come across a member of the younger generation who makes you think, 'Well, perhaps the future's going to…

— Allison Pearson

We have to understand what the older generation has dealt to us, what mess they have created that we have to clean…

— Greta Thunburg

I remember watching Argentina beat the U.S. in 2004 and I think maybe the same story that Argentina wrote with the 'Gold…

— Ricky Rubio

It's all about sustainability, it's all about teaching the next generation as to what they should be doing and what they can…

— Jay Blades

The problem is that my generation was pacified into believing that racism existed only in our history books.

— Chance The Rapper

If we think long term, the younger generation here is better about embracing the world. Not seeing countries boundaries kind of an…

— Bill Gates

Artists of my generation were not educated. We were not given the equipment because it was generally believed to be irrelevant.

— Eric Fischl

It took an entire generation of critical thinking for Douglas Sirk's films to be really appreciated.

— Todd Haynes

One of the reasons The Bullet Club is what it is, while it may be kind of a wink and a nod…

— Eric Bischoff

As far as stand-up, a lot of Asians and Chinese are not as apt to stand-up, especially the older generation since they…

— Jimmy O. Yang

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

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

“Our nation Nigeria CAN & MUST become a great place to live, otherwise we will have to answer to more than just…

— Fela Durotoye

I am a member of the 'sandwich' generation, that group that must simultaneously care for elderly parents and support children.

— Sandra Tsing Loh

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

— Marianne Williamson

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

— Brandon Webb

My generation will actually be the first generation that is tamer than the one that came before it, and it will probably…

— Shia LaBeouf

I wouldn't say they're neglected, but everybody is going to grow old and we should be looking after the older generation more…

— Alan Hansen

President Trump's record of tax reform and deregulation powered the American economy to the fastest real wage increases in a generation.

— Scott Bessent

The youth are very important to me, they're the next generation, but I want to instill in kids, even in playing, that…

— Sheila E