Generation Quotes - page 72

I always love working with young actors, because there's always something to learn. It's always exciting to see the next generation and how they approach things and what's great about them and what's not so great about them. (Helen Mirren)
I was part of the first generation of girls and women to be educated and go to grammar school even if we didn't have much money. Then that generation went, 'OK, great', and went into medicine or the police, and hit this wall of discrimination from older men who hadn't caught up. View quote
Helen Mirren
We cannot afford enemies any more ... Within a generation or two human society will be in total destructive disarray. View quote
Isaac Asimov
I think we're the first generation to successfully integrate American society. View quote
Ted Rall
Masculinity is what you believe it to be. I think masculinity and femininity is something that's very old-fashioned. There's a whole new generation of people who aren't defined by their sex or race or who they like to sleep with. View quote
Johnny Weir
You can take as much as you can from the generation that has preceded you, but then it's up to you to make something new. View quote
Jackson Browne
That's maybe the most important thing each generation does, is to break a lot of rules and make up their own way of doing things. View quote
Jackson Browne
Why does every generation have to think that he lives in the period with the greatest turbulence? View quote
Henry Mintzberg
Perhaps I was born too early. I was more the painter of your generation than of mine. View quote
Paul Cézanne
I think the new generation is much more demanding about respect for the environment than we have ever imagined. View quote
Carlos Ghosn
When and under what conditions is the black man to have a free ballot? When is he in fact to have those full civil rights which have so long been his in law? When is that equality of influence which our form of government was intended to secure to the electors to be restored? This generation should courageously face these grave questions, and not leave them as a heritage of woe to the next. (Benjamin Harrison)
The Iraq War was the biggest issue for people of my generation in the West. It was also the clearest case, in my living memory, of media manipulation and the creation of a war through ignorance. View quote
Julian Assange
It seems to me that we're in danger of losing sight of certain basic civic values in society by allowing the growth of a whole generation of people who really have no sense of attachment to society. View quote
Alexander McCall Smith
What keeps the world from reverting to the Neandertal with each generation is the continuing, ongoing mythos, transformed into logos but still mythos, the huge body of common knowledge that unites our minds as cells are united in the body of man. To feel that one is not so united, that one can accept or discard this mythos as one pleases, is not to understand what the mythos is. View quote
Robert M. Pirsig
The mythos-over-logos argument points to the fact that each child is born as ignorant as any caveman. What keeps the world from reverting to the Neandertal with each generation is the continuing, ongoing mythos, transformed into logos but still mythos, the huge body of common knowledge that unites our minds as cells are united in the body of man. To feel that one is not so united, that one can accept or discard this mythos as one pleases, is not to understand what the mythos is. View quote
Robert M. Pirsig
Most men desire to leave some work behind them that may outlast their own day and brief generation. View quote
Albert Pike
I honestly believe that people of my generation despise authenticity, mostly because they're all so envious of it. View quote
Chuck Klosterman
I was surprised by the response of young people because there is a perception that those younger than the 1988 generation are not interested in politics. View quote
Aung San Suu Kyi
I wear jeans and a T-shirt sometimes. I just like clothes - since the first time I can remember, like age ten or eleven; I was just obsessed with music and clothes. Just like a lot of people in England from my generation. View quote
Paul Weller (singer)
We're in danger of losing the ship generation. View quote
Ken MacLeod
The perpetuity by generation is common to beasts; but memory, merit, and noble works, are proper to men. And surely a man shall see the noblest works and foundations have proceeded from childless men; which have sought to express the images of their minds, where those of their bodies have failed. (Francis Bacon)
There is a part of my generation that is not on social media because they have happy lives and they're not trying to connect with anybody. And there are other people who are on social media because they need to connect. View quote
Patton Oswalt
This is the Generation of that LEVIATHAN, or rather (to speake more reverently)of that Mortall God, to which we owe under the Immortal God, our peace and defence. View quote
Thomas Hobbes
To me, they're the greatest generation. My parents and their friends, to me, have qualities that I don't have, my children don't have. They're very imaginative, hardworking people. They created so much. My mother could teach all day, and then she could come home and cook a perfect dinner, and her house always looked perfect. They had qualities, I think, that are just so admirable. View quote
Adrienne Kennedy
My mother was religious; she was knowledgeable about mythology and scriptures; she could tell the metaphysical nuances and make the story come to life with their deeper significance. The current generation is missing out on this. View quote
Vilayanur S. Ramachandran