Generation Quotes - page 10

One's teachers all belonged to that generation who were imperialists, and the whole narrative throughout my adolescence was of countries leaving the empire. I find it extraordinary that this purpose which drove how we viewed the world is now considered to be something that has no effect upon us. (Jeremy Paxman)
The modern individual is committed to being successful, not to being a person. He belongs rightly to the 'action generation' whose motto is 'do more but feel less.' View quote
Alexander Lowen
No other generation but ours can evangelize the present generation. View quote
John Mott
I cannot tell you what it means when children recognize. This is about the third generation for me. And when kids that small recognize me, it really pleases me, very gratifying. View quote
Dick Van Dyke
There's a whole generation of young people who are faced with the so-called 'jobless recovery.' Necessity is the mother of invention. They are out there, all around the world, creating new companies. View quote
Don Tapscott
I was raised in Arizona, and I went to public school, and the extent of my knowledge of the civil-rights movement was the story of Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King, Jr. I wonder how much my generation knows. View quote
Emma Stone
It is as the father of the Encyclopedia that Denis Diderot merits eternal recognition. Guilty as he was in almost every relation of life towards the individual, for mankind, in the teeth of danger and of infidelity, at the ill-paid sacrifice of the best years of his exuberant life, he produced that book which first levelled a free path to knowledge and enfranchised the soul of his generation. View quote
Evelyn Beatrice Hall
I was a TV junkie as a kid. I am the Sesame Street generation. View quote
Darren Aronofsky
And the political system is changing rapidly in this country, and we better realize that. The elephants or donkeys are not what younger people look to. They look at individual candidates' philosophy, and I think it's a different time and a different generation. View quote
Richard M. Daley
A politician thinks of the next election; a statesman of the next generation. View quote
James Freeman
On my US tour maybe three out of 30 shows there was an Elvis impersonator in the crowd but that's it. I usually get younger fans, and those that come that are of an older generation end up walking out because it's too loud. (Lisa Marie Presley)
Whatever comes next for this generation, that's going to be the greatest voice. View quote
Clancy Brown
The men who followed Him were unique in their generation. They turned the world upside down because their hearts had been turned right side up. The world has never been the same. View quote
Billy Graham
Text messaging is just the most recent focus of people's anxiety; what people are really worried about is a new generation gaining control of what they see as their language. View quote
David Crystal
I don't think it's going to be possible for the next generation of writers to tell stories without telling stories about telling stories. View quote
Dan Harmon
It's always been the children who have saved the universe from the previous generation and remade the universe in their own image. View quote
Diane Duane
With artists of my own generation there was at first no group identity - and never a clique. View quote
Kenneth Noland
I feel like I'm part of a generation of people who are stuck in the past and are really self-absorbed. I mean, we're actually taking pictures of ourselves and posting them on Facebook, and keeping in touch with people that should have been out of our lives 15 years ago. View quote
Diablo Cody
Every American born today owes $43,000 to the federal government the day she or he is born. And we are transferring a tremendous amount of debt to the new generation, much of it owed to overseas creditors who expect to be repaid by our children with interest. View quote
Mark Kirk
A whole new generation is looking at the videos, and going to the video shop and buying the re-release of the complete trilogy, which you can buy at a reasonable price. View quote
Peter Mayhew
There is a wealth of twentieth century music that is being re-discovered by a generation that hasn't heard it. (Helen Reddy)
As the baby boomers like me are retiring and getting ready to retire, they will spend whatever it takes - and theyre the wealthiest generation in our country - to make themselves live an enjoyable life in their retirement years. View quote
David Rubenstein
The response to 'The Greatest Generation' and the books that followed has been one of the most satisfying experiences of my life. View quote
Tom Brokaw
A woman's love is quick to turn into a passion for revenge--an obsession that becomes an endless river of blood, flowing on from generation to generation. View quote
Fumiko Enchi
I'm doing research for a large comic book on the Beat Generation guys - Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac and those guys. View quote
Harvey Pekar