Generation Quotes - page 73

A lot of the fiction I read growing up was post-war American, and not all of it centers on Manhattan, but around people of the Mad Men generation, people like John Cheever and, in more modern times, Don DeLillo, who I always mention. (Dylan Moran)
Every generation, no matter how paltry its character, thinks itself much wiser than the one immediately preceding it, let alone those that are more remote. View quote
Arthur Schopenhauer
Teenagers give me hope. We write them off so often. But I'm seeing a lot of things in this generation that's coming up that gives me a lot of hope for the future. So I tell them when I'm in the old folks home, I think I can relax because I think you guys are going to do a great job. View quote
Angie Thomas
The world and history will take from Russia much more than Russian missiles will take from Ukraine. Every lost life is an argument for Ukrainians and other free nations to perceive Russia exclusively as a threat generation after generation. View quote
Volodymyr Zelenskyy
I am proud of the hip hop generation. They are good business people and, actually, good people. View quote
Nikki Giovanni
I think one of the nicest things that we created as a generation was just the fact that we could say, 'Hey, I don't like white people.' View quote
Nikki Giovanni
I'm a feminist, but I think that romance has been taken away a bit for my generation. I think what people connect with in novels is this idea of an overpowering, encompassing love - and it being more important and special than anything and everything else. View quote
Emma Watson
Tina Fey is part of a generation of women who have changed the face of comedy at 'Second City,' 'SNL,' in sitcoms and in film. View quote
Janeane Garofalo
I have had much to learn from Sweden's poetry and, more especially, from her lyrics of the last generation. View quote
Knut Hamsun
For she was of that generation who, having found nothing in religion, had formed themselves through literature. View quote
Doris Lessing
The current publishing scene is extremely good for the big, popular books. They sell them brilliantly, market them and all that. It is not good for the little books. And really valuable books have been allowed to go out of print. In the old days, the publishers knew that these difficult books, the books that appeal only to a minority, were very productive in the long run. Because they're probably the books that will be read in the next generation. It's heart-breaking how often I have to say when I'm giving talks, "This book is out of print. This book is out of print." (Doris Lessing)
The gears of poverty, ignorance, hopelessness and low self-esteem interact to create a kind of perpetual failure machine that grinds down dreams from generation to generation. We all bear the cost of keeping it running. Illiteracy is its linchpin. View quote
Carl Sagan
I have heard of that idea [i. e., of Haile Selassie being the reincarnation of Jesus Christ]. I also met certain Rastafarians. I told them clearly that I am a man, that I am mortal, and that I would be replaced by the oncoming generation, and that they should never make a mistake in assuming or pretending that the human being is emanated from a deity. View quote
Haile Selassie
In every generation there has to be some fool who will speak the truth as he sees it. View quote
Boris Pasternak
I want to be the bridge to the next generation. View quote
Michael Jordan
The world of imagination is the world of eternity. It is the divine bosom into which we shall all go after the death of the vegetated i.e. mortal body. This world of imagination is infinite and eternal, whereas the world of generation is finite and temporal. There exist in that eternal world the eternal realities of everything which we see reflected in this vegetable glass of nature. View quote
William Blake
I was in a Printing-house in Hell, and saw the method in which knowledge is transmitted from generation to generation. View quote
William Blake
We think that thoughts are there inside of us. We think that they are self-generated and spontaneous. What is actually there is what I call a thought-sphere. The thought-sphere is the totality of man's experiences, thoughts, and feelings passed on to us from generation to generation. View quote
U. G. Krishnamurti
A quality education has the power to transform societies in a single generation, provide children with the protection they need from the hazards of poverty, labor exploitation and disease, and given them the knowledge, skills, and confidence to reach their full potential. View quote
Audrey Hepburn
Led Zeppelin has been there through three generations of teenage angst. And there's a generation of kids now who won't know it, post-Linkin Park. View quote
Robert Plant
One of the greatest gifts we can give to another generation is our experience, our wisdom. (Desmond Tutu)
The guys who won World War II and that whole generation have disappeared, and now we have a bunch of teenage twits. View quote
Clint Eastwood
Are you ready to fight for good jobs and and a solid level playing field? Are you ready to prove to another generation of Americans that we can build a better country and a newer world? Joe Biden is ready. Barack Obama is ready. I am ready. You're ready. View quote
Elizabeth Warren
America needs a majority party of the democratic Left. This is not a proposal for a tightly disciplined party on the old European model (I see no reason to add to the amusement of the politcal scientists who have been setting up, and shredding, that straw man for a generation). It is simply a recognition of the fact that, to solve problems which the Government passively records, there must be radical departures and a political movement capable of initiating them. The real ideologues in this period are those utopian pragmatists who believe that the society can bumble its way through a revolution. They are fanatics of moderation. View quote
Michael Harrington
Seeing how little was done by the wisdom of former times for education and public health, for insurance, association, and savings, for the protection of labour against the law of self-interest, and how much has been accomplished in this generation, there is reason in the fixed belief that a great change was needed, and that democracy has not striven in vain. Liberty, for the mass, is not happiness; and institutions are not an end but a means. View quote
John W. Campbell