Generation Quotes

It's a struggle but that's why we exist, so that another generation of Lesbians of color will not have to invent themselves, or their history, all over again.

~ Audre Lorde

All in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and dedicated to flight, I was disappointed by the wrinkle in history that had brought me along one generation late. I had missed all the great times and adventures in flight.

~ Neil Armstrong

It definitely wasn't like, 'Hey, I'm going to steal that, and nobody's going to know.' The original 'T.R.O.Y.' came out in 1992, and it was like a 20th anniversary kind of thing. All of those intentions were there for it to be resurrecting a classic for a new generation. I tried to honor it.

~ Lupe Fiasco

Every generation witnesses atrocities. People in power try to fulfill prophecy.

~ Nas

While the women of the older generation were thankful if only they succeeded in obtaining 'a work and a duty,' however monotonous and wearing it might be, the will of the younger generation for a pleasurable labour has fortunately increased.

~ Ellen Key

I feel like we can learn from each other by us, being the young generation, giving knowledge to the older guys.

~ Quavo

I feel connected to my generation through the music, but I also fear for us. We're in a very self-destructive state where we're addicted to outside opinions and we all feel like we have fans.

~ Drake

The fear of the never-ending onslaught of gizmos and gadgets is nothing new. The radio, the telephone, Facebook - each of these inventions changed the world. Each of them scared the heck out of an older generation. And each of them was invented by people who were in their 20s.

~ Daniel H. Wilson

Leadership is not about the next election, it's about the next generation.

~ Simon Sinek

The biggest novelty of 2013 will be new leadership in China. Very little is known about the views of the new leaders - who will rule the country for ten years. But we do know they're the first generation of Chinese leaders who have spent the majority of their lives in a China 'opening up' to the rest of the world.

~ David Miliband

I always had a sense that I would fall in love with Tokyo. In retrospect I guess it's not that surprising. I was of the generation that had grown up in the '80s when Japan was ascendant (born aloft by a bubble whose burst crippled its economy for decades), and I'd fed on a steady diet of anime and samurai films.

~ Junot Díaz

As Michigan's voice on the Senate Finance Committee and Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, I will continue working to make sure the next generation of advanced technologies and alternative fuel vehicles are made right here in America.

~ Debbie Stabenow

As you know, Social Security functions under the premise that today's workers will help finance benefits for retirees and that these workers will then be supported by the next generation of workers paying into the same system.

~ Steve Israel

I think there's a growing courage among the younger generation of American writers. Because of the more superficial treatment of characters taking place in cinema, they have had to deal with that by digging deeper into who these people are.

~ Mohsin Hamid

I know this president. And I can tell you that he cares deeply about the next generation of young women in this country - his daughters, and everyone's daughters. President Obama had the courage to stand with Sandra Fluke. Without hesitation, he defended her right to tell her story.

~ Nancy Keenan

The rise of childhood obesity has placed the health of an entire generation at risk.

~ Tom Vilsack

I always try to set a positive example for my generation and promote confidence.

~ Keke Palmer

Let's give some substance to patriotism. It may take a generation.

~ Richard Dreyfuss

Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further.

~ Soren Kierkegaard

Every generation has to protect every one of their rights, whether that's freedom of the press, freedom of speech, or freedom of faith. You have to remain diligent.

~ James Lankford

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

Gay marriage will be universally accepted in time. But if I may be so bold as to say to gays and lesbians, don't wait for that time to arrive. Just as my father and his generation did not 'wait' for their civil rights, nor should you. The toothpaste ain't going back in the tube. The tide has turned.

~ John Ridley

He plants trees to benefit another generation.

~ Caecilius Statius

A generation before, it had been sagebrush and coyotes; a generation later, it was a burgeoning movie town. But for that brief idyllic time in 1910, Hollywood looked like the perfect place for a successful writer to settle down, build his dream house, and maybe do some gardening.

~ Kage Baker

Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.

~ George Orwell

My father comes from a generation of film that actors my age don't even know about, which is really sad.

~ Amber Tamblyn

Millennials, and the generations that follow, are shaping technology. This generation has grown up with computing in the palm of their hands. They are more socially and globally connected through mobile Internet devices than any prior generation. And they don't question; they just learn.

~ Brad D. Smith

Traits acquired during one's lifetime - muscles built up in the gym, for example - cannot be passed on to the next generation. Now with technology, as it happens, we might indeed be able to transfer some of our acquired traits on to our selected offspring by genetic engineering.

~ Nick Bostrom

With a fourth generation of nuclear power, you can have a technology that will burn more than 99 percent of the energy in the fuel. It would mean that you don't need to mine uranium for the next thousand years.

~ James Hansen

Rarely do you walk down the street doing anything that my grandparent's generation did. And half of that comes with the technology advances.

~ Gabriel Basso

A Romney-Ryan administration will protect and strengthen Medicare, for my Mom's generation, for my generation, and for my kids and yours.

~ Paul Ryan

My mom grew up in Idaho, went to Brigham Young University: they're very Molly Mormon. And my father is, like, first generation Albanian, and his parents lived in Southey and grew up in downtown Boston. My parents are complete opposites.

~ Eliza Dushku

Perhaps the fact that we have seen millions voting themselves into complete dependence on a tyrant has made our generation understand that to choose one's government is not necessarily to secure freedom.

~ Friedrich August Von Hayek

The awakening of the people of China to the possibilities under free government is the most significant, if not the most momentous, event of our generation.

~ Woodrow Wilson

This is a generation weaned on Watergate, and there is no presumption of innocence and no presumption of good intentions. Instead, there is a presumption that, without relentless scrutiny, the government will misbehave.

~ Dee Dee Myers

We have a complex system of government. You have to teach it to every generation.

~ Sandra Day O'connor

Every generation has a macabre notion that wars, government prohibition, natural disasters or mankind itself could be the downfall of society and the world as a whole.

~ Lauren Destefano

Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.

~ Gilbert K. Chesterton

It's shortsighted not to view the education of a future generation of Americans as a priority for all Americans.

~ Mel Martinez

Education is the investment our generation makes in the future.

~ Mitt Romney