My Generation Quotes

That is our generation’s task - to make these words, these rights, these values of life and liberty and the pursuit of happiness real for every American.

To restore America's competitiveness, we must recruit a new generation of science and technology leaders by investing in diversity.

Trade justice for the developing world and for this generation is a truly significant way for the developed countries to show commitment to bringing about an end to global poverty.

Like some kind of particularly tenacious vampire the short story refuses to die, and seems at this point in time to be a wonderful length for our generation.

If we think long term, the younger generation here is better about embracing the world. Not seeing countries boundaries kind of an "us versus them" thing.

Is it possible to covet a much longer life for one's self and be as devoted to the well-being of the next generation? It's a long argument.

I don't need a successor, only willing hands to accept the torch for a new generation.

The difference between my generation of actors and their generation is that they were bigger than life. We are not bigger than life

My generation of the Sixties, with all our great ideals, destroyed liberalism, because of our excesses.

We are enmeshed in a lineage that came from somewhere and is going to make way for the next generation.

The sooner the US puts a cap on our dangerous carbon pollution, the sooner we can create a new generation of clean energy jobs here in America.

Going out in Paris was like going out in the '30s dressed like the Andrews Sisters. It was everything I'd seen in books at my grandparents' house, only it was our generation.

It's the same thing now. When I go onstage the young people scream and holler as much as the older generation.

If anything is going to halt necessary investments in next generation networks it will be Congress dictating business models to companies.

I started when I was 8 years old, which is obviously nowadays pretty late, but I guess in my generation it was all right. I had plenty of other interests and I didn't do only tennis.

The younger generation can smell fakes - Authenticity trumps cool.

New gene pools are generated in every generation, and evolution takes place because the successful individuals produced by these gene pools give rise to the next generation.

Television has dried up for my generation, so its plays and films.

All of my peers died of AIDS, and I have no one to celebrate my past or my journey, or to help me pass down stories to the next generation. We lost an entire generation of storytellers with HIV.

Artists of my generation were not educated. We were not given the equipment because it was generally believed to be irrelevant.

Appropriation was the language of my generation in many ways. It came out of Duchamp, Warhol, Johns, Lichtenstein.

As major orchestras around the world are gripped in various kinds of crises and upheaval, we need to be sure that we are bringing up this new generation.

I don't want to live in a bubble, in my craft or in the world... I can't, I would be cheating myself out of my generation and the world we live in.

It's very important for men to look downward, to the next generation

These kids [of the current generation] have no fear of technology ... sort of like I have no fear of a refrigerator.

Further, the next generation of terrorists will grow up in a digital world, with ever more powerful and easy-to-use hacking tools at their disposal.

I don't consider this younger generation to be lost, quite the opposite, they must continue. It is up to them. The old political system no longer functions.

APL is a mistake, carried through to perfection. It is the language of the future for the programming techniques of the past: it creates a new generation of coding bums.

My generation is having its midlife crisis in its 20s.

I'm a feminist, but I think that romance has been taken away a bit for my generation.

The next generation of women will enter a world in which they are perceived to have more opportunities for creating fulfilling lives than women have ever had before.

My father comes from a generation of film that actors my age don't even know about, which is really sad.

My films have to do with justice and many, many other concerns. That's the sad part of coming from my generation, and having been boxed in by those words like "identity."

I received a beautiful welcome to the world of music. I want to give something back to the younger generation.

I don't know how many serious Christians exist here in America, but the Japanese, the younger generation is leaving the Buddhist religion mentality behind.

Serious harm, I am afraid, has been wrought to our generation by fostering the idea that they would live secure in a permanent order of things.

I don't want to freak you out, but I think I may be the voice of my generation.

For me, the meaning of life is the next generation.

The older generations have eaten the future of the younger ones.

Daniel Johnston is the purist and most unpretentious artist of our generation

A program whose basic thesis is, not that the system of free enterprise for profit has failed in this generation, but that it has not yet been tried!

I never thought that I would be labeled something like Generation X because of that movie ( Reality Bites ). I had no idea going into it, and it wasn't a label I could relate to.

I think that any wealth creates a sense of trusteeship... it is characteristic of the new generation which has created wealth to have some amount of responsibility for it.

It seems to me that the conquest of the air is the only major task for our generation.

I am sick of war. Every woman of my generation is sick of war. Fifty years of war. Wars rumored, wars beginning, wars fought, wars ending, wars paid for, wars endured.

The World is not ours to keep. We hold it in trust for future generations.

I think some of that hopelessness of my generation got passed on to later generations - the sense of uselessness.

Our generation must fulfill the most noble of duties by ensuring the survival of future generations through the most basic of survival mechanisms - adaptation.

Where else? I belong to a lost generation and am comfortable only in the company of others who are lost and lonely.

The challenge of our generation, whether it's young lawyers, young investment bankers, is to make capitalism work for people not just around the corner, but for people all around the world.