Generation Quotes
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The Beat Generation - that term is even more familiar now, even more than say the '70s. Hype is built and established and people link it back to a certain generation, in this case the '40s and '50s. Now everyone knows that that group was the Beat Generation.
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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.
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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.
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I think my generation is obsessed with instant gratification. We want everything now, now, now.
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Feel ashamed of my generation. We've let down our children and their children.
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The feminist spirit still lives! It shows most boldly among younger women from the millennial generation.
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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.
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The arts are not just instantaneous pleasure - if you don't like it, the artist is wrong. I belong to the generation which says if you don't like it, you don't understand and you ought to find out.
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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.
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My generation of the Sixties, with all our great ideals, destroyed liberalism, because of our excesses.
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Each generation must recreate liberty for its own times.
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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.
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The celebrity's desire to shape the next generation of young minds by opening a school is by no means unique to Diddy.
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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.
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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.
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You can take as much as you can from the generation that has preceded you, but then it's up to you to make something new.
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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.
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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.
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I will go down as the voice of this generation, of this decade, I will be the loudest voice.
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Kids have always play-fought, but I think my generation had a particularly privileged cultural fantasy surrounding military violence.
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We have seen the best minds of our generation destroyed by boredom at poetry readings.
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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.
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Waste paper is like a forest - paper recycles itself, generation after generation.
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I had no new ideas on the physics we might learn, and I could not compete with the younger generation.
