Quotes about generation
generations culture matter
In the Middle East, the conflict today is a matter of generations and not of cultures. Shimon Peres
generations our-family has-beens
Music has been in our family for generations. Henry Garza
generations looks inferiority
It is quite possible that future generations will look upon arguments about the inferiority of the socialist plan as we look upon Adam Smith's argument about joint stock companies which, also, were simply false. Joseph A. Schumpeter
generations lifetime individual
A business enterprise must continue beyond the lifetime of the individual or of the generation to be capable of producing its contributions to economy and to society. Peter Drucker
generations film realizing
I didn't realize there are generations who do not know about the origins of film. Martin Scorsese
generations new-generation
It is time for a new generation of leadership. John F. Kennedy
generations comedy emotion
A whole generation was raised to learn about comedy from 'The Simpsons.' To get to be in a booth with Homer and Marge and be in Springfield - it was unimaginable the emotions that I felt. Jonah Hill
generations genre subtext
Every new generation of SF writers remakes cyberpunk - a genre often laced with dystopian subtexts - in its own image. Paul Di Filippo
generations abandoned sequence
Mans true taproots are nourished in the sequence of generations, and he loses his taproots in disrupted developmental time, not in abandoned localities. Erik Erikson
generations
No other generation but ours can evangelize the present generation. John Mott
generations mormonism world
If Mormonism is able to endure, unmodified, until it reaches the third and fourth generation, it is destined to become the greatest power the world has ever known. Leo Tolstoy
generations calm shouting
The generation of women who came before us did much of our shouting. They laid the groundwork and now we can be calm and constant and steady. Julianna Baggott
generations houston singers
There's no concession to the fact that Dylan might be a more sophisticated singer than Whitney Houston, that he's probably the most sophisticated singer we've had in a generation. Nobody is identifying our popular singers like a Matisse or Picasso. Dylan's a Picasso - that exuberance, range, and assimilation of the whole history of music. Leonard Cohen
generations levels definitions
Schooling, by definition, must be conservative. It is naturally dependent on an older generation’s level of knowledge and sense of values. Leon Botstein
generations reason prophet
The prophet and the quack are alike admired for a generation, and admired for the wrong reasons. Gilbert K. Chesterton
generations talent british
The British playwright Nina Raine is one of her generation's most promising talents. John Lahr
generations littles life-goes-on
We carry the dead with us only until we die too, and then it is we who are borne along for a little while, and then our bearers in their turn drop, and so on into the unimaginable generations. John Banville
generations sowing harvest
Don't be so shortsighted that if it doesn't happen right now, you're not going to be happy. You are sowing seeds that will reap a great harvest for generations to come. Joel Osteen
generations my-generation
Don't listen to the cynics. They were wrong about my generation and they were wrong about yours. Joe Biden
generations spirituality
Each generation has to reinvent spirituality. Susan Sontag
generations
One generation cannot bind another. Thomas Jefferson
generations influence peril
I have overlived the generation with which mutual labors & perils begat mutual confidence and influence.
generations debt may
We shall all consider ourselves unauthorized to saddle posterity with our debts, and morally bound to pay them ourselves; and consequently within what may be deemed the period of a generation, or the life of the majority.
generations demand want
If you know that you are not sure, you have a chance to improve the situation. I want to demand this freedom for future generations. Richard P. Feynman
generations purpose today
Can we somehow muster the courage and steadfastness of purpose that characterized the pioneers of a former generation? Can you and I, in actual fact, be pioneers [today]? Thomas S. Monson
generations benefits today
As you know, Social Security functions under the premise that today's workers will help finance benefits for retirees and that these workers will then be supported by the next generation of workers paying into the same system. Steve Israel
generations may armageddon
We may be the generation that sees Armageddon. Ronald Reagan
generations wealth obsessed
How should we begin to make amends for raising a generation obsessed with the pursuit of material wealth and indifferent to so much else? Tony Judt
generations reader
Only a generation of readers will span a generation of writers. Steven Spielberg
generations influence peanuts
If you're from a certain generation, you basically learn to read with 'Peanuts.' It's sort of the template for the modern strip. Its influence ceased to be noticed because it's in everything. Stephan Pastis
generations disease prevailing
It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one's generation. Stendhal
generations lines kind
Maybe I was what Leah thought she was. Some kind of dead end that shouldn’t be passed on to another generation. Or maybe it was just that my life was a big, cruel joke, and there was no escape from the punch line. -Jacob Stephenie Meyer
generations accepted wanted
We come from a generation that wanted to make electronic music accepted, at a time [when] it was not. Thomas Bangalter