Generation Quotes - page 8

It dawned on me with blinding brightness. I realized: I had jumped into another rare kind of stratosphere - one that only a handful of people in every generation are lucky enough to know. (Jesse Owens)
I have seen that Man moves over with each new generation into a bigger body, more awful, more reverent and more free than he has had before. View quote
Gerald Stanley Lee
Rich people, God bless us. We deserve all the opportunities to make sure our country and our blessings continue to the next generation. View quote
Hillary Clinton
I think all those actors from that generation, like Bogart - they were wonderful actors. They didn't act. They just came on and they did it, and the characters were wonderful. View quote
Anthony Hopkins
I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked. View quote
Allen Ginsberg
I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of the night. View quote
Allen Ginsberg
I remind young people everywhere I go, one of the worst things the older generation did was to tell them for twenty-five years "Be successful, be successful, be successful" as opposed to "Be great, be great, be great." View quote
Cornel West
Sometimes I fear that, if Harvard does not give up trying to turn itself from an Institution of Learning into an Educational Institution, we may have a generation of professors whose duty it will be to disseminate information which they have not the time to acquire. View quote
Edwin Boring
We remain a young nation, but in the words of Scripture, the time has come to set aside childish things. The time has come to reaffirm our enduring spirit; to choose our better history; to carry forward that precious gift, that noble idea, passed on from generation to generation: the God-given promise that all are equal, all are free, and all deserve a chance to pursue their full measure of happiness. View quote
Barack Obama
Every generation is equidistant from God. View quote
Leopold von Ranke
The modern minds in each generation are the critics who preserve us from a petrifying world, who will not leave us to walk undisturbed in the ways of our fathers. (Edith Hamilton)
I wonder whether any other generation has seen such astounding revolutions of data and values as those through which we have lived. Scarcely anything material or established which I was brought up to believe was permanent and vital, has lasted. Everything I was sure or taught to be sure was impossible, has happened. View quote
Winston Churchill
When the history of our times is written, will we be remembered as the generation that turned our backs in a moment of global crisis or will it be recorded that we did the right thing? View quote
Nelson Mandela
Gentlemen, if ever a generation will come after us which is so weak and soft-hearted that it doesn't understand our task, then indeed the whole of National Socialism has been in vain. To the contrary, in my opinion one should bury bronze plates on which it is recorded that we have had the courage to carry out this great and so necessary work. View quote
Odilo Globocnik
Concerning the generation of animals akin to them, as hornets and wasps, the facts in all cases are similar to a certain extent, but are devoid of the extraordinary features which characterize bees; this we should expect, for they have nothing divine about them as the bees have. View quote
Aristotle
Ours is a lost generation, it may be, but it is more blameless than those earlier generations. View quote
Franz Kafka
Overemphasis of efficiency leads to an unfortunate circularity in design: for reasons of efficiency early programming languages reflected the characteristics of the early computers, and each generation of computers reflects the needs of the programming languages of the preceding generation. View quote
Kenneth E. Iverson
Here was a new generation, shouting the old cries, learning the old creeds, through a revery of long days and nights; destined finally to go out into that dirty gray turmoil to follow love and pride; a new generation dedicated more than the last to the fear of poverty and the worship of success; grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken. . . . View quote
F. Scott Fitzgerald
My generation of radicals and breakers-down never found anything to take the place of the old virtues of work and courage and the old graces of courtesy and politeness. View quote
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ah! How I hate the crimes of the new generation: they are dry and sterile as darnel. View quote
Jean-Paul Sartre
I fear the day that technology will surpass our human interaction. The world will have a generation of idiots. (Albert Einstein)
A man must always live by his work, and his wages must at least be sufficient to maintain him. They must even upon most occasions be somewhat more; otherwise it would be impossible for him to bring up a family, and the race of such workmen could not last beyond the first generation. View quote
Adam Smith
To want a job that exercises a man's capacities in an enterprise useful to society, is utopian anarcho-syndicalism; it is labor invading the domain of management. No labor leader has entertained such a thought in our generation. Management has the "sole prerogative” to determine the products. View quote
Paul Goodman
Mine is the first generation able to contemplate the possibility that we may live our entire lives without going to war or sending our children to war. View quote
Tony Blair
Each new generation asks – What is the meaning of life? A more fertile way of putting the question would be – Why does man need a meaning to life? View quote
Peter Wessel Zapffe