Generation Quotes

What motivates me is the desire to bring up a whole new generation of active citizens who believe in peace and social justice and will work for it.

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

I'm not good at texting because I'm an older generation, old school. And nobody ever listens to the answering machine anymore. It's terrible.

My generation of writers has been prone to premature illness and death, especially the women. When Black male writers meet it's like a session of the American Diabetic Association.

They were like the man with the dungeon stone and gloom, rising from the underground, the sordid hipsters of America, a new beat generation that I was slowly joining.

I had no new ideas on the physics we might learn, and I could not compete with the younger generation.

The ukulele has always appealed to the older generation.

We must teach the next generation to not just learn languages, but whole cultures and belief systems. We will then make more of an effort to understand people and their different cultures.

Librarians are teaching the next generation how to use digital media responsibly.

The soil is actually the greatest technology we have for adapting to climate change. And I feel it's our generation's duty to build it back up.

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

I love dancing in general and making girls dance. My generation doesn't do it enough.

Ah! How I hate the crimes of the new generation: they are dry and sterile as darnel.

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

I grew up watching all the great Disney animated films and to be able to carry that torch and know that I'm contributing to the same magic and wonder for a whole new generation is a great thing.

For my generation I must have the oracles of God in fresh terms.

Don't listen to the cynics. They were wrong about my generation and they were wrong about yours.

A child of the new generation Refused to learn multiplication. He said 'Don't conclude That I'm stupid or rude; I am simply without motivation.'

Hey, I'm just trying to become the Michael Caine/Gene Hackman of my generation.

It is time for a new generation of leadership, to cope with new problems and new opportunities. For there is a new world to be won.

Young people in my generation were sort of in lockstep, and it wasn't just the '40s, either. In the '30s and in the '50s it was the same. No one ever dropped out unless he got sick or got kicked out.

I believe it is my obligation to tell the story of the civil rights movement to the next generation.

I want to be the first guy from my generation who doesn't just represent one record but the promise of a lot of them.

Barack Obama is the New Generation and the hot light of a dawn that goes way beyond clever talk of morning in America.

I think that young people understand me perfectly. I think that's the luckiest thing about my career, that I get older and they get younger, and it didn't stop with my generation.

The President says, "We are in the fight for a way of life. This is the greatest battle of our generation, and of the generations to come."

I'm not too embarrassed to say I'm the definition of the target audience. This is my generation, the one of exalting music in album form.

The interesting thing writing about [Buckminster] Fuller is really to attempt to resurrect all of that and to do so for a new generation that has not grown up with him.

There is the expectation that a younger generation has the opportunity to redeem the crimes and failings of their elders and would have the strength and idealism to do so.

The first novel that I wrote was because I was having very interesting sorts of experiences, for Indians of my generation.

What I learned in my time isn't necessarily being taught now, and I'd like to help impart that knowledge to a new generation of players.

I suppose my biggest concern would be if the planet is going to be in good enough shape for the next generation to have the privileges that we've had.

People fall out of love, or get married for the wrong reasons. People change. The older generation - they got married and had a kid when they were 20. How do you know who you are when you're 20?

I believe this generation, particularly the younger people don't really like labels.

I think my generation has grown up knowing that you don't pay attention to trolls because trollin's what they do.

This younger generation that's around, that's tweeting, Facebooking and Vine-ing, the fans appreciate that because they feel like they can get to you.

I think every entrepreneur in Canada owes the next generation a road map of how to do it again.

If you have done well in whatever business you are in, it is your duty to send the elevator back down and try to help bring up the next generation of undiscovered talent.

If you look at this generation of selfies and selfies and selfies, it seems a little bit scary. I like to see a driven kid, somebody who wants to come from the ground up.

The kingdoms' people were at the mercy of the natures of those who rose to be their rulers. It was a gamble, and the current generation did not make for a winning hand.

This is what happens under capitalism - as long as corporations and the super rich own the economy and the politicians, every new generation has to fight hard just to defend itself.

To a new generation of butterflies, hopefully less stupid than last. Maybe they were burgeoning even now in fat little cocoons. Or maybe not.

I don't think anybody else from my generation had federal agents standing at their door with a badge and a gun, saying: 'You are going to answer my questions'.

It is clear that our society can improve only if the next generation is given the chance, through loving and intelligent education, to be better developed than the present one.

I believe in my heart that 'Avatar' is going to be the revolutionary sci-fi movie for this generation, in this era.

I think singing traditional country is wonderful, because I'm bringing it to my generation and to the younger kids.

Schooling, by definition, must be conservative. It is naturally dependent on an older generation’s level of knowledge and sense of values.

My parents were married for sixty-five years, and I was married for about ten minutes, my first year at Yale Drama School. Something, somehow, didn't get passed on to my generation.

Of all the poetry written in our generation, Frost's is most likely to stand the test of time

I'm 33, my generation, when I was young, we'd go out into the woods for the entire day and come back for dinner. I was definitely a kid of the '80s, who was out and about.