Generation Quotes
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Our death is not an end if we can live on in our children and the younger generation. For they are us; our bodies are only wilted leaves on the tree of life.
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Each generation wants new symbols, new people, new names. They want to divorce themselves from their predecessors.
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Worldwide, our young generation shares the same issues socially and politically.
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I think the new generation is much more demanding about respect for the environment than we have ever imagined.
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I’m the best songwriter of my generation. Ask me in 20 years about the Libertines.
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Every generation comes with a unique athlete, I don't think anybody wants to be the next Nadia; they want to be themselves.
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I know of no system other than Hinduism under which a class has been set apart from generation to generation for the exclusive pursuit of divine knowledge and consigned to voluntary poverty.
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When I was a kid and putting out my first records, there was a lot made out of the fact that the '50s/'60s generation was so dominant.
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I believe that whoever is successful should help ensure that the next generation can be successful, too.
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I was given a chance some time ago, and it changed my life forever. I want to be able to give the same chance to the next generation of artists. There's a new wave coming, and we are going to be a part of it.
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A statesman is he who thinks in the future generations, and a politician is he who thinks in the upcoming elections.
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My generation of Americans was the first to really care about racism and sexism, not to mention the I Ching, plus, of course, the Earth.
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Prog didn't really go away. Just took a catnap in the late Seventies. A new generation of fans discovered it, and a whole new array of bands and solo artists took it on into the new millennium.
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The very emphasis of the commandment: Thou shalt not kill, makes it certain that we are descended from an endlessly long chain of generations of murderers, whose love of murder was in their blood as it is perhaps also in ours.
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I don't feel that I've had a life of abuse or that I am a victim in any way. My life is pretty typical of a lot of Americans of my generation who grew up in the sixties in families like mine that were sort of unconventional.
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There is nothing I'm any more passionate than empowering the next generation.
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To people of my generation, the picture show was really another dimension - sensual, whimsical. No uniforms or collective rites, but a place where little boys like me could laugh and feel free.
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Rarely do you walk down the street doing anything that my grandparent's generation did. And half of that comes with the technology advances.
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We are the first generation to feel the impact of climate change and the last to be able to do anything about it.
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I'm showing the younger generation your career doesn't have to be over when you're 16-years-old.
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We're raising a generation of kids who are being overly praised for incredibly minor accomplishments. I think it's counter-productive.
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Since the dawn of recorded music, every generation has felt shocked by the musical tastes of the next.
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Every generation has someone who steps outside the norm and offers a voice for the unspeakable attitudes of that time. I represent everything that's supposed to be wrong, everything that's forbidden.
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My idea is always to reach my generation. The wise writer writes for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterward.
