Generations Quotes · Page 24

'Saturday Night Fever,' Paula Abdul, 'Fame,' Debbie Allen... all affected me and the generation before me.

— Laurieann Gibson

Do we want to be remembered as the generation that saved the banks and let the biosphere collapse?

— George Monbiot

Every generation thinks their music is the ultimate. But there's great stuff from every generation.

— Delbert McClinton

I'm the fourth generation to be in show business. It's pretty neat; it's nice to have that family history.

— Rachel Bilson

I thought that all generations were lost by something and always had been and always would be

— Ernest Hemingway

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

— Fiona Shaw

I have overlived the generation with which mutual labors & perils begat mutual confidence and influence.

— Thomas Jefferson

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

— Laurence Overmire

As soon as the recovery is well under way, we need to set up a long-term plan to reduce the structural deficit…

— Barack Obama

When you touch the life of a man of this generation, that influence is felt through generations yet to come.

— Gordon B. Hinckley

The point is it is amazing that the generations have joined in the Beatle madness and love the music. Who knew?

— Ringo Starr

In the process of natural selection, then, any device that can insert a higher proportion of certain genes into subsequent generations will…

— E. O. Wilson

Just as the baby boom generation seemed to believe it was the first to discover sex, many of its members also seemed…

— Mona Charen

The most important business of one generation is the raising of the next generation. Nothing else you do in life will be…

— George Will

The World we all share is given to us in trust. Every choice we make regarding the earth, air, and water around…

— August Busch III

Science progresses not by convincing the adherents of old theories that they are wrong, but by allowing enough time to pass so…

— Max Planck

You know how it always is, every new idea, it takes a generation or two until it becomes obvious that there's no…

— Richard P. Feynman

Church is missing transcendence. My generation was raised on a religion of moral control. Do this. Don't do that. And a lot…

— Matt Chandler

“We have begun a fight that it may be will take many a generation to complete...but you know that men are not…

— Woodrow Wilson

Many years after animating Ariel, I continue to draw her, doodling as I talk on the phone, absent-mindedly passing time in a…

— Glen Keane

The generation of consumers who swallow this pessimistic sentiment can't see past the product to its debased morality. Instead, their excitement about…

— Armond White

One of the most special things about the city of New Orleans is how diverse a people we really are. There's been…

— Mitch Landrieu

Feminists of my mother's generation argued that both mom and dad should work a little less and each do some of the…

— Emily Oster

All the struggles that were fought for here in the United States for African Americans, you now enjoy the privileges of. You…

— Danai Gurira

I believe we're at the verge of the greatest time to be alive in this world. But Washington is holding us back.…

— Jeb Bush

Ere many generations pass, our machinery will be driven by a power obtainable at any point of the universe. This idea is…

— Nikola Tesla

Human rights are not the preserve of Western activists: The definition must extend to encompass the right to the dignified life; the…

— Paul Kagame

There are only two possible explanations as to how life arose: Spontaneous generation arising to evolution or a supernatural creative act of…

— George Wald

We all accuse Vladimir Putin of Cold War nostalgia, but Washington's elites - politicians and intellectuals - miss the old days as…

— Fareed Zakaria

[M]y conception of liberty does not permit an individual citizen or a group of citizens to commit acts of depredation against nature…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Three or four million heads of households don't turn into tramps and cheats overnight, nor do they lose the habits and standards…

— Harry Hopkins

I do think it's interesting when people are born into families that at one point had huge amounts of money and that…

— Lawrence Douglas

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

— Jim Cummings

Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation.

— Gertrude Stein

The reason people blame things on the previous generation is that there's only one other choice.

— Doug Larson

I think we're seeing that the way we've done parenting cannot be sustainable in this generation, for sure.

— Shefali Tsabary

It was both Abraham's and the Jews' privilege also that they should have this promise to all generations.

— Thomas Goodwin

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

— D. A. Carson

I want to keep on doing 'Girls' Generation' forever. Please let me do so.

— Kim Tae-yeon

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

— Robert E. Lee