Generations Quotes

• I've always written. I'm from an older generation of programmers [who] did not come out of engineering. [A]ll sorts of people were drawn in from the social sciences and humanities.

  

  Ellen Ullman
  • People
  • Social
  • Engineering

• I think that new communications are wonderful and I am delighted to be a part of the Internet generation

  

  Judy Collins
  • Music
  • Communication
  • Internet

• I have no influence with the rising generation. All my arguments have failed to induce them to set bounds to their wants.

  

  Benjamin Banneker
  • Influence
  • Argument
  • Generations

• All change, all production and generation are effected through the word.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Generations
  • Productions

• I think as time goes on that generation of rappers who's making it now is gonna face the same thing that my generation was facing, which is the decrease of sales. The decrease of hard-copies.

  

  Robert Fitzgerald Diggs Achozen
  • Thinking
  • Faces
  • Rapper

• There's no question that all the generations got excited about the first flights, with Kennedy's inspiration to go to the moon, leaving the planet for the first time, and fortunately coming back.

  

  Alan Shepard
  • Inspiration
  • Moon
  • Leaving

• You might like it as a joke or because you liked it then, but there isn't a whole new generation discovering Wham!.

  

  Rob Zombie
  • Might
  • Jokes
  • Discovering

• Out of the sighs of one generation are kneaded the hopes of the next.

  

  Machado de Assis
  • Generations
  • Next
  • Sigh

• We should not be ashamed to acknowledge truth from whatever source it comes to us, even if it is brought to us by former generations and foreign peoples. For him who seeks the truth there is nothing of higher value than truth itself.

  

  Al-Kindi
  • Values
  • Ashamed
  • Acknowledge

• When the corpses are cleared no new order will emerge. Power, society, relationships, will descend in all their confusion on a new generation. The old, who started this conflagration, will retreat, worn out, the survivors and the young will continue the dance.

  

  Rita Mae Brown
  • Power
  • Society
  • Dance

• Right, I was a teenager then, this was my generation's music, it was what I danced to on dates.

  

  Wanda Jackson
  • Music
  • Teenager
  • Generations

• We've got to stop the name-calling and we've got to stop looking at the next election. We've got to be focused on figuring out what we're doing for the next generation.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Stop
  • Names
  • Calling

• I think that men of my generation - not me in particular - are among the most fortunate men in the universe.

  

  Sergio Leone
  • Universe
  • Fortunate
  • Particular

• We will respond to the threat of climate change, knowing that the failure to do so would betray our children and future generations

  

  Barack Obama
  • Children
  • Future
  • Failure

• The major break in the understanding of manliness is not between, say, the nineteenth century and any particular preceding era but between my generation of Baby Boomers and the entire proceeding complex of teachings. In some ways, TR and Churchill have more in common with Homer and Shakespeare than they do with us.

  

  Waller R Newell
  • Understanding
  • Teaching
  • Particular

• I consider myself responsible to the coming generations, which are left stranded in a blitzed world, unaware of the soul trembling in awe before the mystery of life.

  

  Oskar Kokoschka
  • Responsible
  • Generations
  • Consider

• Since the cruel killing of cows and other animal have commenced, I have anxiety for the future generation.

  

  Lala Lajpat Rai
  • Future
  • Animal
  • Anxiety

• I used to think that all my Wings stuff was second-rate stuff, but I began to meet younger kids, not kids from my Beatle generation, who would say, We really love this song.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Thinking
  • Kids
  • Song

• After a greater or lesser number of generations the mutants are eliminated.

  

  G. Ledyard Stebbins
  • Numbers
  • Generations
  • Mutants

• My truth is relevant and my songs are relevant, but I have to recalibrate myself and speed up my vibrations so that I can communicate with the voice of this generation.

  

  Erykah Badu
  • Up
  • Truth
  • Communicate

• THE old man died beneath the wheels of the twentieth century. There was nothing left but stains, bloodstains and fragments of flesh . . . And the same thing is happening to my generation.

  

  Dambudzo Marechera
  • Century
  • Flesh
  • Fragments

• Passion has been in my DNA for generations.

  

  Julio Iglesias
  • Passion
  • Generations

• All ages serve and worship the same God, gather under the same gospel and add to the collective song that praises the faithfulness of God as each generation shares in his promises to us.

  

  Keith Getty
  • Song
  • Promise
  • Praise

• Woe to those who spit on the beat generation, the wind will blow it back.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Wind
  • Blow
  • Beats

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