My Generation Quotes

I grew up believing my generation would be better. We would be kinder, we would be more level-headed. We would be more loving. And so many people are missing.

Most of us are in this more than just for playing soccer. We're in it for the bigger goal - to move it along for the next generation.

Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn't have anything to do with it.

My generation was not only maligned in book reviews and attacked in graduate school but we lived to see our adored and adorable daughters wonder why feminism had become a dirty word.

He that confesseth not that Jesus has come in the flesh and sent Joseph Smith with the fullness of the Gospel to this generation, is not of God, but is anti-christ

A lot of filmmakers from my generation were lucky enough to have their work more or less perpetuated by people who saw them originally on TV and on HBO and certainly on home video.

This generation, our generation of people who benefited, must always be the pioneers who look to younger people and say mediocrity is not accommodated in what we do.

One way or another, the choice will be made by our generation, but it will affect life on earth for all generations to come

The rise of childhood obesity has placed the health of an entire generation at risk.

A science is any discipline in which the fool of this generation can go beyond the point reached by the genius of the last generation.

The number one problem in today's generation and economy is the lack of financial literacy.

One of the sad things, I think, about the younger generation, quite frankly, is they have less sense of yesterday. And if you don't know who you were, you don't really know who you are.

George Orwell said, "Whoever controls the past controls the future," by which he meant that history is incredibly important in shaping the world view of the next generation of people.

My generation is now the door to memory. That is why I am remembering.

This generation lacks true knowledge of how the past has trapped you with psychological lassos over Adam's apples.

It's not our fault our generation has short attention spans, Dad. We watch an appalling amount of TV.

Our [generation] people have the worst diet of anybody. I'm ready to put a farmer on my payroll. We've got to get back to growing our own food. You are what you eat!

Before this generation goes on to its ancestors, we should, we must, do our level best to pass on our lessons, so that they live in our people's minds and lives.

I created Punk for this day and age. Do you see Britney walking around wearing ties and singing punk? Hell no. That's what I do. I'm like a Sid Vicious for a new generation.

I don't give a damn about my reputation. You're living in the past, it's a new generation.

The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap.

A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.

We will be remembered only if we give to our younger generation a prosperous and safe India, resulting out of economic prosperity coupled with civilizational heritage.

Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.

Like all artists, I want to cheat death a little and contribute something to the next generation.

This generation must know that the total truthfulness of the bible is under continual assault.

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

I really have a generation gap about modern clothes.

My generation has failed miserably. We've failed because of lack of courage and vision. It requires more courage to keep the peace than to go to war.

Politicians all too often think about the next election. Statesmen think about the next generation.

It is the rare and strong person that can carry their trauma without having it spill into the next generation.

There is a winner in you. You were created to be successful, to accomplish your goals, to leave your mark on this generation. You have greatness in you. The key is to get it out.

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

The ambition of the greatest men of our generation has been to wipe every tear from every eye. That may be beyond us, but so long as there are tears and suffering, so long our work will not be over.

We have a complex system of government. You have to teach it to every generation.

The guys who won World War II and that whole generation have disappeared, and now we have a bunch of teenage twits.

Our generation is wonderful generation, full of wonder. It's very hard to find an example of it in all our history. Composed of contradictions — light and darkness mixed.

I’m a Republican who embraces science and understands we have to work with the next generation of Millennials to have the innovation and technology so that we can grow a 21st century economy.

To some generations much is given. Of other generations, much is expected.

This generation can only reach this generation.

No member of our generation who wasn't a Communist or a dropout in the thirties is worth a damn.

If more politicians in this country were thinking about the next generation instead of the next election, it might be better for the United States and the world.

This idea of helping the next generation is a very intrinsic part of photojournalism. We need to continue to build this new group of photographers that come in and tell these stories.

I grew up in a physical world, and I speak English. The next generation is growing up in a digital world, and they speak social.

Those of us who have been privileged to receive education, skills, and experiences and even power must be role models for the next generation of leadership.

It would be absolutely useless for any of us to work to save wildlife without working to educate the next generation of conservationists.

Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.

I want kids of this generation to see that everything is cool, that there's some kind of unity in hip-hop. We all found something that's really important to us, and music is all we've really got.

The case for freedom, the case for our constitutional principles the case for our heritage has to be made anew in each generation. The work of freedom is never done.

Science is the one human activity that is truly progressive. The body of positive knowledge is transmitted from generation to generation.