52 quotes found
“Trouble is, kids feel they have to shock their elders and each generation grows up into something harder to shock.”
“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-dest...”
“Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.”
“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.”
“Married people from my generation are like an endangered species!”
“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 inten...”
“Every generation witnesses atrocities. People in power try to fulfill prophecy.”
“Leadership is not about the next election, it's about the next generation.”
“Let's give some substance to patriotism. It may take a generation.”
“He plants trees to benefit another generation.”
“Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.”
“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 m...”
“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 transfe...”
“Rarely do you walk down the street doing anything that my grandparent's generation did. And half of that comes with the technology advances.”
“A Romney-Ryan administration will protect and strengthen Medicare, for my Mom's generation, for my generation, and for my kids and yours.”
“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.”
“We have a complex system of government. You have to teach it to every generation.”
“That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.”
“I'm a member of the 1960s generation. We didn't have any wisdom.”
“People are fed up with the way things are. There is a lot of bitterness out there, a lot of anger about a lack of jobs and concerns for the next generation.”
