Generations Quotes · Page 68

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

— Eric Fischl

I am continually influenced by the feeling that music culture captured in the late 60s - for my generation, it was a…

— Renzo Rosso

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

— Buzz Aldrin

We have seen the best minds of our generation destroyed by boredom at poetry readings.

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Those of us who witness the degraded state of the environment and the suffering that comes with it cannot afford to be…

— Wangari Maathai

When a generation talks just to itself, it becomes more filled with folly than it might have otherwise.

— Stewart Brand

Freedom is a fragile thing and is never more than one generation away from extinction. It is not ours by inheritance; it…

— Ronald Reagan

The man who thinks only of his own generation is born for few.

— Seneca the Younger

Thus the sum Forever is replenished, and we live As mortals by eternal give and take. The nations wax, the nations wane…

— Lucretius

Each generation, as it seeks to advance the common good, must ask anew: 'What are the requirements that governments may reasonably impose…

— Pope Benedict XVI

Most of us are in this more than just for playing soccer. We're in it for the bigger goal - to move…

— Landon Donovan

I have always wanted to make a film about my parents' generation, which tried every way to escape from the deadly shadow…

— Mabel Cheung

The power of nonviolence is not circumstance-specific. It is as applicable to the problems that confront us now, as to problems that…

— Marianne Williamson

My family came over from Spain about nine generations ago. I was born in San Diego, but by the time I was…

— Bitsie Tulloch

It's a wonderful feeling to be a bridge to the past and to unite generations. The sport of baseball does that, and…

— Vin Scully

One of the sad realities today is that very few people, especially young people, read books. Unless we can find imaginative ways…

— Nelson Mandela

“A mistake, committed for a few generations, becomes a tradition.”

— Nitya Prakash

The most essential characteristic of scientific technique is that it proceeds from experiment, not from tradition. The experimental habit of mind is…

— Bertrand Russell

I believe the history of American music is just as important as anything political because it's changed generations of people.

— Dave Grohl

HIV/AIDS has been a big epidemic for my generation, it's been around for as long as I've been alive.

— Rihanna

I look at other members of my generation who have basically done one thing, and one thing well, and have been handsomely…

— Billy Corgan

If people wake up, think critically, and get angry, we get connected to that courage that the founding generation meant us to…

— Naomi Wolf

Every war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it.

— Simone de Beauvoir

Our history has moved in that direction slowly at times but unmistakably thanks to generations of Americans who refused to give up…

— Hillary Clinton

I believe that this could very well be looked back on as the sin of our generation...I believe that our children and…

— Richard Stearns

Cheers to the albums written fortunes earned lives touched in the millions and generations defined by one lonely person placing an ad…

— Dallas Clayton

[The Internet generation is] not fighting that battle about who gets to speak; they all get to speak.

— Jennifer Pahlka

When secularization has had its full sway, it will leave a generation devoid of shame. And if you show me a generation…

— Ravi Zacharias

Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.

— Lewis Mumford

“Beauty is what we have seen and what we are going to see in the future. It is the totality of physical,…

— M.F. Moonzajer

A young painter who cannot liberate himself from the influence of past generations is digging his own grave.

— Henri Matisse

The nature of human beings never changes; it is immutable. The present generation of children and the present generation of young adults…

— Taylor Caldwell

I believe that, seven generations beyond us, those who look back on our time will find that it was the cry of…

— Robert Moss

I think in other generations, the 50s, the 60s, people went into religion and they were really involved with religion. I found…

— James Van Praagh

Civil rights happened because youth got involved. The youth stood up and helped to break the pattern that their parents had got…

— Octavia Spencer

As founder and co-chair of the upper Mississippi River Congressional task force, I have long sought to preserve the river's health and…

— Ron Kind

My generation had Doris Day as a role model, then Gloria Steinem--then Princess Diana. We are the most confused generation.

— Erica Jong

I know, for me, you know, my generation - I never would have known anything about Robert Preston's performance in 'The Music…

— John Lloyd Young

The most powerful way to change the world is to secretly commit little acts of compassion. You must behave as if your…

— Thom Hartmann

I wish to share and pass down some of my generation's traits, and encourage young people to create their own art, music,…

— David Amram