Generations Quotes

• What I'm interested in doing after I get out of the presidency is to make sure that I'm working with that next generation so that they understand you can't just rely on inspiration.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Inspiration
  • Generations
  • Presidency

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

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Generations
  • Productions

• 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'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 really do not understand the members of my generation.

  

  Zeke Smith
  • Generations
  • Members
  • My Generation

• 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

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

  

  Machado de Assis
  • Generations
  • Next
  • Sigh

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

  

  Lala Lajpat Rai
  • Future
  • Animal
  • Anxiety

• 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

• 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 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

• 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

• 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

• Bilbo lay with his eyes shut, gasping an taking pleasure in the feel of the fresh air again, and hardly noticing the excitement of the dwarves, or how they praised him and patted him on the back and put themseves and all their families for generations to come at his service.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Pleasure
  • Families
  • Excitement

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

  

  G. Ledyard Stebbins
  • Numbers
  • Generations
  • Mutants

• I would tell your generation, wherever you are on the totem poll - whether you're halfway there or at the bottom, don't despise small beginnings; small beginnings get you ready for great things.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • Great
  • Small
  • Totems

• 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

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