My Generation Quotes

I want to be one of those people, be they writers, poets, musicians, who leaves clues for the next generation. The really good people leave clues that help feed the human race. That's my aspiration.

This nation, this generation, in this hour has man's first chance to build a Great Society, a place where the meaning of man's life matches the marvels of man's labor.

A lot of youth today have become very narrow and conservative in a way, whereas we in the older generation are kind of living it.

Our generation was supposed to be about trying to deal with nuclear concerns and environmental disasters.

Wisdom is a living stream, not an icon to be preserved in a museum. Only when a practitioner finds the spring of wisdom in his or her own life can it flow to a future generation

There's an older generation that feels like they know what the future should be. And then there's your generation that may have an idea of what the future should be, but that could evolve.

Discovering the beauty and joy of faith is a path that every new generation must take on its own.

Justice needs money; it always has . . . whether for abolition of slavery and early women's rights movements or the civil rights and environmental drives of our generation.

Youngsters of this generation seem not quite so hazardous except in the way of mechanical speed, bad liquor and venereal diseases.

I think this generation can play a very important role. If we act now, this could be the first generation to witness universal education.

Elevation of today's generation, if I can make them listen. Prisons ain't what we need, no longer stuck in greed.

You are the hybrids of golden worlds and ages splendidly conceived.

We often hear about stepping outside ourselves, but rarely about stepping outside our generation.

Every new generation believes its own period to be absolutely superior intellectually - greater than all past cultures yet equal among its modern cultures.

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

I think the new generation is much more demanding about respect for the environment than we have ever imagined.

A John Updike is a once-in-a-generation phenomenon, if that generation is lucky: so comfortable in so many genres, the same lively, generous intelligence suffusing all he did.

I think documentaries are the greatest way to educate an entire generation that doesn't often look back to learn anything about the history that provided a safe haven for so many of us today.

Let's give some substance to patriotism. It may take a generation.

I think that to acknowledge a new generation is to acknowledge some degree of obsolescence in yourself, and that is very hard to do and often comes with undeniable anger.

I don't think for this generation, but for my generation and my father's generation, men had difficulty in accessing emotion and then being able to talk about it.

The greatest discovery of my generation is that we are unique. The greatest discovery of the next generation, I pray, is that we are one.

I don't want this music to die.The older people are passing it on to the younger generation so the younger generation can pass it on to the next generation.

We are all fixing what is broken. It is the task of a lifetime. We'll leave much unfinished for the next generation.

I don’t want the next generation to fight the same fight as I did.

I saw the best minds of my generation who threw their watches off the roof to cast their ballot for Eternity outside of Time, & alarm clocks fell on their heads every day for the next decade.

A man must be sacrificed now and again to provide for the next generation of men.

[T]he presence of feminism in our lives is taken for granted. For our generation, feminism is like fluoride. We scarcely notice we have it - it's simply in the water.

More and more good actors are now transmigrating into the videogame space and playing roles there because it's where my generation of kids get stories from.

I'm getting more towards that point where I'm ready to kind of pass the torch on and see the next generation succeed behind me.

Science chases money, and money chases its tail, and the best minds of my generation cannot make bail.

I think the leadership of a company should encourage the next generation not just to follow, but to overtake.

I think eventually I want to become a teacher, like my father wanted to be, and hopefully positively influence the next generation.

Is it possible that my sons-in-law will do toilets? If we raise boys to know that diapers need to be changed and refrigerators need to be cleaned, there's hope for the next generation.

Most African Americans, especially the men and women from my generation, would accept the nationalist gambit that says only European Americans can be racists, which is an interesting gambit.

The next generation will remake the world in a way that allows us to live in a more sustainable way, both personally and globally.

If I want to build wealth to transfer to the next generation, I can let it grow on a tax-free basis.

Have we forgotten about the children, and thus forsaken the next generation?

Why are the architects of the family-values agenda so eager to punish into the next generation? What is being served by seeking, quite literally, a tooth for a tooth?

It is our generation's task, then, to reignite the true engine of America's economic growth - a rising, thriving middle class.

To break our addiction to oil is one of the greatest challenges that our generation will have to master.

As soon as the recovery is well under way, we need to set up a long-term plan to reduce the structural deficit and make sure we are not leaving a mountain of debt for the next generation.

It's time to put country ahead of party. It's time to put the next generation ahead of the next election.

Every ten years there is a new generation of actors.

I like to see what future generations are thinking about.

I look at other members of my generation who have basically done one thing, and one thing well, and have been handsomely rewarded for it.

It's sometimes comical to hear the younger generation ask their peers to repeat themselves.

There are a lot of people, especially the younger generation who don't feel that they need to support the artists by buying their music because they grew up learning that record companies are evil.

I want to reach a new generation. That's why I am Twittering now. I have a BlackBerry, an iPhone and a Mac.

Everyone of my generation who preached free love is responsible for AIDS.