Generation Quotes

• Feel ashamed of my generation. We've let down our children and their children.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Children
  • Down
  • Generation

• South Central is just who I am. Even though I have a nice house, nice family, the rest of my generation is still in South Central L.A. My cousins, my brothers, my sisters, they don't wanna move out.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Family
  • House
  • Generation

• We will be remembered only if we give to our younger generation a prosperous and safe India, resulting out of economic prosperity coupled with civilizational heritage.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Generation
  • Prosperity

• The celebrity's desire to shape the next generation of young minds by opening a school is by no means unique to Diddy.

  

  Laura Moser
  • School
  • Desire
  • Unique

• My generation of the Sixties, with all our great ideals, destroyed liberalism, because of our excesses.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Great
  • Generation
  • Sixties

• I think I'm part of a generation of crime writers all of whom woke up independently and recoiled with horror at the fact that we'd chosen this very conservative genre.

  

  Laura Lippman
  • Up
  • Think
  • Crime

• We launched DirecTV Now. Our 5G evolution plans and improved spectrum position are paving the way for the next generation of super-fast mobile and fixed networks.

  

  Randall L. Stephenson
  • Generation
  • Evolution
  • Plans

• In a completely rational society, the best of us would aspire to be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something less, because passing civilization along from one generation to the next ought to be the highest honor and the highest responsibility anyone could have.

  

  Lee Iacocca
  • Society
  • Responsibility
  • Rest

• I will go down as the voice of this generation, of this decade, I will be the loudest voice.

  

  Kanye West
  • Voice
  • Down
  • Generation

• I think there is a generation gap. I personally look forward to, as our generation becomes the leaders, you are gonna see a change, and I think hopefully gay marriage will be a part of that country.

  

  Vanessa Kerry
  • Country
  • Change
  • Marriage

• Really, each era has its own false nostalgia. We all put a picket fence up around something. For my generation it was the '50s, and for other generations it will be something else. Change is scary for everyone, as is complexity, contradiction, and an uncertain future.

  

  Gary Ross
  • Up
  • Future
  • Change

• I'm inspired when I find out about something that I didn't know was a remake. An example is, of course, stuff like 'The Fly,' or 'The Thing,' or even 'The Blob.' For our generation, all those things, whether it was 'The Blob' or 'The Fly' or something else, we had no idea they were remakes.

  

  Fede Alvarez
  • Know
  • Inspired
  • Fly

• Their eagerness for the big-band music and their ability to grasp the essence of it made me realize that today's generation has not been properly exposed to the big-band sound.

  

  Illinois Jacquet
  • Music
  • Today
  • Band

• I think it's interesting: What is the generational effect of the experience of being a gay person in America? For my generation, it was very difficult.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Experience
  • America
  • Interesting

• The feminist spirit still lives! It shows most boldly among younger women from the millennial generation.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Women
  • Feminist
  • Still

• The culture means the younger generation respecting the OGs, but at the same time, bringing it all to the older generation to where they can relate.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Time
  • Culture
  • Generation

• The new generation of Labour is different. Different attitudes, different ideas, different ways of doing politics.

  

  Ed Miliband
  • Different
  • Ideas
  • Politics

• Opening up Atlantic and Arctic waters to drilling would lock the next generation into burning oil and gas in a way that only makes climate change that much worse, fueling ever rising seas, widening deserts, withering drought, blistering heat, raging storms, wildfires, floods and other hallmarks of climate chaos.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Up
  • Change
  • Chaos

• Two generations ago only a few unfortunate children ever saw anyone hit over the head with a brick, shot, rammed by a car, blown up, immolated, raped or tortured. Now all children, along with their elders, see such images every day of their lives and are expected to enjoy them. ... The seven-year-old who hides his eyes in the family cops-and-robbers drama is desensitized four years later to a point where he crunches potato chips through the latest video nasty.

  

  Penelope Leach
  • Children
  • Family
  • Enjoy

• We have seen the best minds of our generation destroyed by boredom at poetry readings.

  

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti
  • Poetry
  • Generation
  • Minds

• Waste paper is like a forest - paper recycles itself, generation after generation.

  

  Zhang Yin
  • Like
  • Generation
  • Forest

• The truth of it is that every singer out there with songs on the radio is raising the next generation, so make your words count.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Truth
  • Words
  • Generation

• Imagine if everyone was able to help just one child who needs to be listened to, needs to be respected, and needs to be loved - we could make such a huge difference for an entire generation.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Help
  • Child
  • Generation

• The upward revision of import duty, from 1 per cent to over 4 per cent on steam coal imports, will adversely impact the industry, as it will lead to increase in cost of power generation.

  

  Gautam Adani
  • Power
  • Generation
  • Impact

1

...

4

5

6

7

8

...

26

previous

next