Generations Quotes · Page 47

F. Scott Fitzgerald is the first of the last generation.

— Gertrude Stein

We want to raise a generation of kids who have a mouse in one hand and a book in the other,

— Henry Jenkins

I am part of a vast generation of people who perpetually live as if they just graduated from college.

— Jonathan Ames

Perhaps I was born too early. I was more the painter of your generation than of mine.

— Paul Cezanne

I'm the most successful person in my generation of family members, and that sucks.

— Ice Cube

With Star Wars fans, there's so much enthusiasm, and it's a completely different generation now.

— Peter Mayhew

We cannot inherit a fixed, unmoving view of life and of art from the past generation.

— Asger Jorn

Never experiencing the life of the mind scars entire families for generations.

— Joe Bageant

You may learn sooner than most generations the hard lesson that you must always make the path for yourself...There is no secret…

— Stephen Colbert

The most important question of the 21st century is not what or how much, it is 'How?' How do you propose to…

— William J. Clinton

Transferring successfully to the next generation means producing work that's as good as or better than the work of the first generation…

— Jay Chiat

With faith and courage, generations of Armenians have overcome great suffering and proudly preserved their culture, traditions, and religion and have told…

— Jerry Costello

In the end ... success or failure will come down to an ethical decision, one on which those now living will be…

— Anonymous

Dance, which displays the body in public, is one of the channels of communication used to pass along important social skills from…

— Gerald Jonas

So that the new generation that will be born can enjoy happiness. To pay the cost we will have to shoulder corpses…

— Anonymous

What one generation finds ridiculous, the next accepts; and the third shudders when it looks back on what the first did.

— Peter Singer

A quality education has the power to transform societies in a single generation, provide children with the protection they need from the…

— Audrey Hepburn

Today's a great time to be any creative type of person, I think, and in just about every aspect of creativity, this…

— Joseph Gordon-Levitt

I want to build a bridge to the 21st century in which we create a strong and growing economy to preserve the…

— William J. Clinton

I wasn't into fairytales when I was little. I was of the generation of the earlier Disney films where many of the…

— Angelina Jolie

From the sexual, or amatorial, generation of plants new varieties, or improvements, are frequently obtained; as many of the young plants from…

— Erasmus Darwin

Our ideals, laws and customs should be based on the proposition that each generation in turn becomes the custodian rather than the…

— Alberto Moravia

If children have an interest in nature, they will understand. I want them to become people who appreciate the consequences the next…

— Tamae Watanabe

Once I was in New York, I completely had no interest for a long time in what happened in China because I…

— Ai Weiwei

California has often led the country, indeed the world, in the technology, consumption, trends, lifestyles, and of course, mass entertainment. It is…

— Fareed Zakaria

According to Shiva, life is in the end about fixing holes. Shiva didn't speak in metaphors. fixing holes is precisely what he…

— Abraham Verghese

Here's what I mean by the miracle of language. When you're falling into a good book, exactly as you might fall into…

— Anthony Doerr

Mankind, transmitting from generation to generation the legacy of accumulated vengeances, and pursuing with the feelings of duty the misery of their…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Martin Luther King challenged the conscience of my generation, and his words and his legacy continue to move generations to action today…

— John F. Kerry

They say that each generation inherits from those that have gone before; if this were so there would be no limit to…

— Eugene Delacroix

“The foundation of morality on the human sentiments of what is acceptable behavior versus repulsive behavior has always made morals susceptible to…

— Criss Jami

So long as the man with ambition is a failure, the world will tell him to let go of his ideal; but…

— Christian D. Larson

The generation that had information, but no context. Butter, but no bread. Craving, but no longing.

— Meg Wolitzer

The future of this nation, with the present generation, You must admit is nothing but a joke

— Ira Gershwin

Democracy has to be born anew every generation, and education is its midwife.

— John Dewey

“All of our ancestors live within each one of us whether we are aware of it or not.”

— Laurence Overmire

You are all a lost generation. [with credit to Gertrude Stein]

— Ernest Hemingway

What the younger generation didn't understand was that the grass was greenest where it's watered..

— Nicholas Sparks

A generation of the unteachable is hanging upon us like a necklace of corpses.

— George Orwell

Unless we take action on climate change, future generations will be roasted, toasted, fried and grilled.

— Christine Lagarde