Generations Quotes · Page 18

Every generation of children offers mankind the possibility of rebuilding his ruin of a world.

— Eglantyne Jebb

No art that is not in the end understood by the People can live or ever did live a single generation.

— Frank Norris

I'm a poet born in the era of Andy Warhol and a generation that wanted to be famous.

— Eileen Myles

It's all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.

— George Bernard Shaw

A dose of poison can do its work but once. A bad book can go on poisoning minds for generations.

— William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield

I am living with a rising generation which talks like people coming out of ether.

— Margaret Halsey

My father comes from a generation of film that actors my age don't even know about, which is really sad

— Amber Tamblyn

If you narrow the playing field, the next generation has less to put out, to eat and regenerate from.

— M.I.A

The record results for the third quarter once again demonstrate the ability of GE's diverse mix of leading global businesses to deliver…

— Jack Welch

The Republicans are looking at a country that is going to be a majority minority country in just over a generation. And…

— Mark Shields

Dear young people, let me now ask you a question. What will you leave to the next generation? Are you building your…

— Pope Benedict XVI

My own view is that being a vegetarian or vegan is not an end in itself, but a means towards reducing both…

— Peter Singer

I feel it is our inherent duty as a humane society, above any intangible responsibility, to invest in our world's children's potential,…

— Masiela Lusha

Never before has a civilization reached such a degree of a contempt for life; never before has a generation, drowned in mortification,…

— Raoul Vaneigem

The TV generation is postliterate and retribalized. It seeks by violence to scrub the old private image and to merge in a…

— Marshall McLuhan

If you know what you do well and stick to that, I think you can appeal to the different generations. You can…

— Angus Young

I want to inspire people to be better, to do better, to dance better, and I want to help to grow this…

— Vivian Nixon

I was supposed to be a real Thatcherite. Just by dint of being a first-generation immigrant and having not had money, and…

— George Michael

I can assume that the younger generations will no longer know what vinyl was. Maybe some kids will take their CD back…

— Mike Rutherford

We shall be remembered in history as the most cruel, and therefore the most unwise, generation of men that ever yet troubled…

— John Ruskin

It's only been in the past two generations that we truly understood the impact our civilization has had on the natural world.…

— Annalee Newitz

Make the wrong choices now and future generations will live with a changed climate, depleted resources and without the green space and…

— Tony Blair

Organic life beneath the shoreless waves Was born and rais’d in Ocean’s pearly caves First forms minute, unseen by spheric glass, Move…

— Erasmus Darwin

We need to preserve programs like Social Security and Medicare for our seniors of today and tomorrow. But we need to strengthen…

— Joni Ernst

I regard sex as the central problem of life. And now that the problem of religion has practically been settled, and that…

— Havelock Ellis

For nothing is fixed, forever and forever and forever, it is not fixed; the earth is always shifting, the light is always…

— Anonymous

My hair would continue to gray, and then one day, it would fall out entirely, and then, on a day meaninglessly close…

— Gary Shteyngart

That was one of the most fundamental and sacred duties good friends and families performed for one another! They tended the flame…

— Dean Koontz

The presence of the blacks is the greatest evil that threatens the United States. They increase, in the Gulf States, faster than…

— James Bryce

And while I'm on the subject, let me say something about Harry Potter. [Gravels her voice.] Warlocks are enemies of God!! [Back…

— Becky Fischer

Over the course of the millennia, all these ancestors in your tree, generation upon generation, have come down to this moment in…

— Laurence Overmire

For more than two generations, my family had never achieved their ambitions. Their talents were unappreciated and unused. They deserved better. They…

— Marco Rubio

Whatever comes next for this generation, that's going to be the greatest voice.

— Clancy Brown

I feel like the Kurt Cobain of my generation, but people just don’t understand me,

— Justin Bieber

The next generation of interesting software will be done on the Macintosh, not the IBM PC.

— Bill Gates

Stop the bullsh*t. Stop drawing lines in the sand like previous generations [have done].

— Michael Skolnik

The immense profundity of thought in vulgar locutions, like holes dug by generations of ants.

— Charles Baudelaire

I feel like as a generation, we sell ourselves short. I just expected more from us.

— Kelly Clarkson

We have been through four and five generations of technology since the PATRIOT Act.

— Carly Fiorina

As patients and consumers, we are better informed today about our health care than any previous generation.

— Patricia Hewitt