I teach 18- to 21-year-olds - the 'Harry Potter' generation. They grew up as voracious readers, reading books in this exploding genre. But at some point, I would love for them to give Umberto Eco or A.S. Byatt a try. I hope 'A Discovery of Witches' will serve as a kind of stepping-stone.
~ Deborah Harkness
I see the whole concept of Generation X implies that everyone has lost hope.
~ Alanis Morissette
You can try to reach an audience, but you just write what comes out of you and you just hope that it is accepted. You do not write specifically to a generation.
~ Leon Uris
Be kind, don't judge, and have respect for others. If we can all do this, the world would be a better place. The point is to teach this to the next generation.
~ Jasmine Guinness
Among my dad's generation, when you gave another man a pocketknife as a gift, it was a show of respect. I'll still give someone the knife out of my pocket.
~ Chris Stapleton
I think the new generation is much more demanding about respect for the environment than we have ever imagined.
~ Carlos Ghosn
I've always had great respect for Paddington because he is amusingly English and eccentric. He is a great British institution and my generation grew up with the books and then Michael Horden's animations.
~ Stephen Fry
Field of Dreams is probably our generation's It's A Wonderful Life.
~ Kevin Costner
Maybe the bar is low, but most of the strips that are 50, 60, 70 years old that are on their second or third generation of artists, the humor is pretty bland. There are others by people that were raised on 'Family Guy' or 'South Park' that are edgier. Mine's not as edgy as those, but it's edgier than 'Beetle Bailey.'
~ Stephan Pastis
The guys who won World War II and that whole generation have disappeared, and now we have a bunch of teenage twits.
~ Clint Eastwood
The way I was parented did affect my parenting - probably in the reverse. My dad was pretty strict, and the next generation probably wants to be less strict.
~ Alan Thicke
I want kids of this generation to see that everything is cool, that there's some kind of unity in hip-hop. We all found something that's really important to us, and music is all we've really got.
~ Missy Elliott
Every year, tens of millions of salmon return to the pristine shores of Bristol Bay in Alaska. They linger in the bay's cool, shallow waters before charging up nearby streams to spawn and create another generation of wild salmon.
~ Frances Beinecke
They're a different generation, those kids; kids that are under the age of twelve. They're not that impressed by rock music, you know what I mean? They're like, it's cool and everything, but whatever. They're just as impressed by YouTube.
~ Frank Black
You're talking about a younger generation, Generation Y, whose interpersonal communication skills are different from Generation X. The younger generation is more comfortable saying something through a digital mechanism than even face to face.
~ Erik Qualman
Having recorded his first album, 'Tapestry,' in 1969, in Berkeley, California, during the student riots, McLean, a native New Yorker, became a kind of weather vane for what he called the 'generation lost in space.'
~ Douglas Brinkley
I like to talk. That's why I can't karaoke in a private room. Those types of shenanigans are only good in a public space. I got to say, though, with smartphones and instant upload of everything, our generation and definitely the next generation coming up, it's going to be hard to act a fool.
~ Liza Lapira
I am of the very last generation who didn't have computers at school. As we grow old we'll become something of an aberration.
~ Steve Coogan
A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.
~ Max Planck
The biggest benefit of Apollo was the inspiration it gave to a growing generation to get into science and aerospace.
~ Buzz Aldrin
From being a teacher and educator, I see the state of the music through the eyes of an 18-year-old coming on to the scene, and we want to make sure it stays intact. With my generation, it's our duty to do that.
~ Jason Moran
People who study the way religions develop have shown that if you have a charismatic teacher, and you don't have an institution develop around that teacher within about a generation to transmit succession within the group, the movement just dies.
~ Elaine Pagels
I think the amazing thing about gospel music is that not only does it lift up the death and resurrection of our Lord, which is consistent with the Gospel, but it is uniquely communicated depending upon the generation.
~ T. D. Jakes
Trouble is, kids feel they have to shock their elders and each generation grows up into something harder to shock.
~ Ben Lindsey
This generation has given up on growth. They're just hoping for survival.
~ Penelope Spheeris
Music, Rock and Roll music especially, is such a generational thing. Each generation must have their own music, I had my own in my generation, you have yours, everyone I know has their own generation.
~ Ronnie James Dio
The '60s was one of the first times the power of music was used by a generation to bind them together.
~ Neil Young
Times were changing. Clothes were changing. Morals were changing. We went from romantic loves songs like I used to do to rock 'n roll. Now that has changed to rap. So, there's always a new generation with new music.
~ Bobby Vinton
At some point in every person's life, you will need an assisted medical device - whether it's your glasses, your contacts, or as you age and you have a hip replacement or a knee replacement or a pacemaker. The prosthetic generation is all around us.
~ Aimee Mullins
This might be the first generation where kids are dying at a younger age than their parents and it's related primarily to the obesity problem.
~ Judy Davis
The number of people my age, younger now, a whole generation younger, who are fiercely bright, over-educated, under-employed and who are politicised and purposeless really upsets me. It's soul-destroying.
~ Benedict Cumberbatch
Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Obama is the New Generation and the hot light of a dawn that goes way beyond clever talk of morning in America.
~ John Ridley
We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go.
~ Timothy Leary
A John Updike is a once-in-a-generation phenomenon, if that generation is lucky: so comfortable in so many genres, the same lively, generous intelligence suffusing all he did.
~ George Saunders
We have overcome economic devastation, defeated mighty oppressors, and lifted up generation after generation of Americans. We can - and we will - do it again. For that is our birthright as members of the American family - white, black, Hispanic, Asian, immigrant, or descendant of the Founding Fathers themselves.
~ Brian Sandoval
The steady expansion of welfare programs can be taken as a measure of the steady disintegration of the Negro family structure over the past generation in the United States.
~ Daniel Patrick Moynihan
There was a time when someone would get on a plane and request to move their seat just because the person sitting next to them was of a different ethnicity or religion or nationality. But I don't think my generation wants that. That's how it used to be.
~ Asap Rocky
Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation.
~ Gertrude Stein
I think documentaries are the greatest way to educate an entire generation that doesn't often look back to learn anything about the history that provided a safe haven for so many of us today.
~ Steven Spielberg
