Generations Quotes · Page 7

Every generation thinks that they invented sex.

— Andy Grove

One generation cannot bind another.

— Thomas Jefferson

Every generation wants to be the last.

— Chuck Palahniuk

He plants to benefit another generation.

— Caecilius Statius

Every generation throws a hero up the pop charts.

— Paul Simon

Every generation of children has its private hero.

— Arthur Smith

Each new generation is a fresh invasion of savages.

— Hervey Allen

Each generation has to reinvent spirituality.

— Susan Sontag

Bill Proxmire represents almost the last of one of America's most remarkable generations.

— Walter F. Mondale

Television has dried up for my generation, so its plays and films.

— Michael Gambon

From one generation to the next, The Beatles will remain the most important rock band of all time.

— Dave Grohl

Each generation makes it's own accounting to its children.

— Robert Kennedy

What this generation was bred to at television's knees was not wisdom, but cynicism.

— Pauline Kael

There was a big question as to whether or not different generations have grown up differently

— Melissa Joan Hart

Each generation is responsible to make the future of the next.

— Nancy Pelosi

On our toughest estates, generations pass with the same experience of worklessness and educational failure.

— Chris Grayling

The ambition of the greatest men of our generation has been to wipe every tear from every eye. That may be beyond…

— Jawaharlal Nehru

If you watch animals objectively for any length of time, you're driven to the conclusion that their main aim in life is…

— David Attenborough

There is a mysterious cycle in human events. To some generations much is given. Of other generations much is expected. This generation…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

When the history of this period is written, [William Jennings] Bryan will stand out as one of the most remarkable men of…

— William Howard Taft

“GenerationS is not just reaching My Generation or even the Next Generation. But it is reaching many GenerationS.”

— Cecilia Chan

Sometimes film is just the family business. Some families are generations of carpenters or farmers, or they make clothes, or they're all…

— Danny Huston

Gadgets are usually the last thing I think about, and if there's something new, I'll get to the store for the final…

— William Gibson

These kids [of the current generation] have no fear of technology ... sort of like I have no fear of a refrigerator.

— Don Tapscott

"A Tale of Three Cities" is a tribute to our parents' generation, who escaped from city to city in search of their…

— Mabel Cheung

I think a lot of people of my generation are discomfited by the assertion of neutrality in the mainstream media, this idea…

— Rachel Maddow

It is to them I look, to the rising generation, and not to the one now in power, for these great reformations…

— Thomas Jefferson

There is a need in every generation to study the past, to absorb its spirit, to preserve its messages...it's a collaboration of…

— Christopher Tunnard

But an opinion that it is possible for the present generation to seize and use the property of future generations has produced…

— John Taylor of Caroline

My dad's side of the family ... they're a real bizarre bunch, going back to the original colonies. That side's got a…

— Sam Shepard

In your generation, everybody is constantly bombarded with all kinds of different input from different cultures, and that's a strength, that's a…

— Barack Obama

Not one example of significant self-generation or self-organization can be found in the entire realm of nature… Without causation, nothing happens and…

— Hugh Ross

We paid for this instead of a generation of health insurance, or an alternative energy grid, or a brand-new system of roads…

— Matt Taibbi

An intelligent man said that the world felt Napoleon as a weight, and that when he died it would give a great…

— Randall Jarrell

With whomsoever or wheresoever may rest the present causes of difficulty that apparently exist towards either the completion of the old engine,…

— Ada Lovelace

Life is a continuous flux. Our nonhuman ancestors bred, generation after generation, and incrementally begat what we now deem to be the…

— Sam Harris

Looking back, if I had to live my life over, there are things I would do differently, but the one thing I…

— Ted Turner

Society of leisure perhaps? Indeed, the most remarkable aspect of the transition we are living through is not so much the passage…

— Henri Lefebvre

Are we on the tail-end of a generation that is enamored with the novelty of these devices and will younger people coming…

— Astra Taylor

Evie hadn’t always felt that way. For a year after James had died, she’d cupped his half-dollar pendant between her pressed palms…

— Libba Bray