Generation Quotes
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America's education system has become less a ladder of opportunity than a structure to transmit inequity from one generation to the next.
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History balances the frustration of 'how far we have to go' with the satisfaction of 'how far we have come.' It teaches us tolerance for the human shortcomings and imperfections which are not uniquely of our generation, but of all time.
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What is well rooted cannot be pulled up. What is firmly grasped will not slip loose. It will be honoured from generation to generation.
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The prayers of God's saints strengthen the unborn generation against the desolating waves of sin and evil.
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Me neither,” Shane put in. “Homie don’t play that.” “I wonder, sometimes, if your generation speaks English at all,” Amelie said.
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What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations ... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.
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Whatever comes next for this generation, that's going to be the greatest voice.
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To the American people I bid a fond farewell. Guard your liberties. It is the trust of each generation to pass a free republic to the next. And if I know you right, you will rouse yourself from slumber to ensure exactly that.
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When I started Doctor Who Steven Moffat said, "That's it for the rest of your life." I'll be Doctor to a whole generation when they're 50.
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I am part of a vast generation of people who perpetually live as if they just graduated from college.
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I don't even know the number of books on Abraham Lincoln. Ten thousand, twelve thousand? I have seen various numbers. It seems like every generation is always trying to come to terms with Lincoln.
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The thing is, our generation, we fight every day to get through life.
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Another generation grew up who did not acknowledge the LORD or remember the might things he had done for Israel.’ (Judges 2:10)
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Every generation throws a hero up the pop charts.
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He is justly lauded as one of the finest war correspondents of his generation...
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By educating the young generation along the right lines, the People's State will have to see to it that a generation of mankind is formed which will be adequate to this supreme combat that will decide the destinies of the world.
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I've seen people talk about how they stopped polio, that was a generation that came together and said, "Let's do this." I think in the AIDS community we've become so complacent in that, it's like we just plateaued... We've completely neglected a whole young generation that is now highly infected.
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But probably that's the way of the world - when we have finally learned something we're too old to apply it - and so it goes, wave after wave, generation after generation. No one learns anything at all from anyone else.
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O, Youth: Do you know that yours is not the first generation to yearn for a life full of beauty and freedom?
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I truly believe that women of my generation can bring a new cleansing element to American public life.
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Musical theater must adapt to the fact that music is done by people. The new generation will do something different. That is great! That is good.
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With the young generation, there are even more women than men making movies right now.
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Every war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it.
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Objects of every sort are materials for the new art: paint, food, chairs, electric and neon lights, smoke, water, old socks, a dog, movies, a thousand other things which will be discovered by the present generation of artists.
