Generation Quotes
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Hardly any generation wants to take the whole of the last generation, it just wants to take its best bits.
Ninette de Valois
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You wish that you could move more rapidly and you have setbacks. You know, the AIDS epidemic was a huge setback for Africa, and it's only through generosity that we've avoided that just completely crippling an entire generation there.
Bill Gates
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We have to wage peace. That's the law of the spirit is the waging of peace, because if we simply seek to manage the effects of hatred, which does need to be done, of course. But if all we do is manage the effects of hatred, then hatred will simply stalk us the next decade or the next generation. We need to dismantle hatred itself.
Marianne Williamson
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The world was different before the war. We didn't have this instantaneous access to information that your generation has. The world was a bigger, more mysterious place - we still dreamed of secret caves in the Mountains of the Moon, and tiger hunting in the Punjab.
Ben Aaronovitch
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People build fame because they're pretty sometimes.Most of the time. This is what the audience wants, apparently. I don't necessarily agree, but I cannot go against it. But it's true that our industry is just full of people who actually really look good. It's the criteria of our generation.
Emmanuel Benbihy
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Leadership requires the courage to make decisions that will benefit the next generation.
Alan Autry
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Marriage has been a way of attempting to ensure the replication of power and wealth from one generation of another, passing it down from men to men.
Rebecca Traister
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With every generation comes a new wave of hopefuls: small-town escapees, European refugees, disaffected Londoners.
Amanda Foreman
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For almost a quarter of a century, Teen Ink has been encouraging young people to write - and then has published those pieces. These heartfelt essays and poems explore the issues faced by teenagers today. I applaud their efforts because they not only help young people deal with their own lives but also encourage the budding authors of the next generation.
Anita Silvey
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The ethic behind songs of conscience doesn't change, even though the issues are altered from generation to generation.
Peter Yarrow
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My generation was, in effect, the product of a social experiment. If we did not understand marital intimacy, it was because we had not seen it modelled. We lurched from relationship to relationship, dazzled by the newness of meaninglessness, relentless in our search for something even the most perceptive of us could not identify.
Antonella Gambotto-Burke
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I remember being awed by it - the uniqueness and nicety of style - and I suspect I was a bit jealous because we were more or less of the same generation.
George Plimpton
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I have three children, and they have never spent a minute unsupervised in their lives. My generation overcompensated like mad. I'm not even joking, every kid on my street growing up was molested. My kids would not have had an opportunity to molested, because they've never been alone, which is going to create a whole set of problems.
Brett Morgen
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Every generation has the obligation to free men's minds for a look at new worlds . . . to look out from a higher plateau than the last generation.
Ellison Onizuka
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What art should do, I think, is advance the generation into the next era. It should be one step ahead of the ordinary, ahead of what is already known. Art is what pulls on the next age. I’m not saying that my art is that, but that it would be good if it could be.
Andy Couturier
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The preoccupations of young women-their looks, their clothes, their social life-don't seem to change much from generation to generation. But in every generation there are a few that make others choices.
Elisabeth Elliot
