Generation Quotes
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By the time [of modern] generation was coming of age sexually, there was already this idea of safe sex. But that didn't exist for me. I came out of the free-swinging '60s and '70s. It was free love, baby. That was it. We had very liberal sex-ed classes in 1973, a yearlong environmental science class, and then Women's Lib and Gay Liberation. So it's insane to go from that to Reagan and AIDS. It was like, "What happened? Where's my future?"
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If current trends continue, the typical U.S. worker will be considerably more productive several decades from now. Thus, one might argue that letting future generations bear the burden of population aging is appropriate, as they will likely be richer than we are even taking that burden into account.
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Each generation of scientists stands upon the shoulders of those who have gone before.
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The Gospel itself is angular. It always has been. It always conflicts. It always challenges every generation. It challenges different generations in different ways.
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The gospel of Jesus Christ must be defended in every generation. It is always the center of attack by the forces of evil.
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I know it's surprising, but there is a generation of people who haven't seen a Bond movie. They have no idea what it is. I want to entertain them as much as anyone else.
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Every generation rediscovers and re-evaluates the meaning of infancy and childhood.
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It's mad what each generation vilifies. It's not necessarily to do with logic.
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You will attract the younger generation and they might well prove tougher than the older generation. What we are trying to do is to look at the future and see what we can do to bring some stability back to people's lives.
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If our country is serious about reducing our dependency on foreign oil, we need to get serious about mobilizing the infrastructure necessary to distribute and dispense the next generation of fuels.
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In every generation, there are quite firm rules on how to behave when you are crazy.
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An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.
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Love is the weapon for this wounded generation.
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Generation after generation can't just be loaded with more and more nuclear weapons and not ultimately dance to that music.
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The trimmings of wealth are not as important to me and my generation as they were to my parents' generation.
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I've led this empty life for over forty years and now I can pass that heritage on and ensure that the misery will continue for at least one more generation.
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I think my whole generation's mission is to kill the cliche.
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No, I don't think my generation got into this dinosaur thing.
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I've got weird conflicting feelings about my generation.
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The generation of composers that are just preceded me, people like [Karlheinz] Stockhausen, [Pierre] Boulez, and, well, [John] Cage for that matter,[Morton] Feldman ... That was a kind of experimental music that was very isolated. It had no real public.
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Social Security is not just another government spending program. It is a promise from generation to generation.
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My mind-set is Munich. Most of my generation's is Vietnam.
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To tell the truth, fairytales have never gone out of style. They have been told and retold for thousands of years, finding new shapes and structures with each new generation of tellers.
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My mother was religious; she was knowledgeable about mythology and scriptures; she could tell the metaphysical nuances and make the story come to life with their deeper significance. The current generation is missing out on this.
