Top 1200 Beat Generation Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

When the founders retire, it's always difficult for the second generation and third generation.

I think as a celebrity, we have to teach the young generation how to speak with the old generation.

Throughout our history each and every generation has expanded upon the freedoms won by their parents and grandparents. Each and every generation has removed some of the barriers to full participation in the American dream. And the next great barrier standing before our generation is the prohibition on marriage for same-sex couples

The novelties of one generation are only the resuscitated fashions of the generation before last.

Every generation thinks things are happening that have never happened before. Every generation of people thinks we're in the last days. Every generation's filled with pessimists. But when you have the Millennials generation, a majority of which have never had a job - you might even be able to put the period there: "Have never had a job, period" - or never had a job in a healthy economy.

It is not difficult to understand why the great God of heaven has reserved these special spirits for the final work of the kingdom prior to his millennial reign.... This generation will face trials and troubles that will exceed those of their pioneer forebears. Our generation has had periods of some respite from the foe. The future generation will have little or none....This is a chosen generation.... I believe today's [Church youth] will lead the youth of the world through the most trying time in history.

Music was the medium through which knowledge was passed from generation to generation.

Perhaps every generation thinks of itself as a lost generation and perhaps every generation is right.

'Niggy Tardust' is the voice of a generation, a generation that does not define itself simply by what it's born into.

I'm much more optimistic about this next generation because this is the first global generation.

I do not write for this generation. I am writing for other ages. If this could read me, they would burn my books, the work of my whole life. On the other hand, the generation which interprets these writings will be an educated generation; they will understand me and say: 'Not all were asleep in the nighttime of our grandparents.'

The thing we need to work on as a country is our educational system. To me, that is something that our generation needs to be focused on. To make sure that for our next generation, every child - no matter what background, no matter what ethnicity, no matter whether they're whatever gender - that they are all educated to have real equal opportunity. That's number one for me. But I have no question that if it's not our generation that will make sure that that happens that it will be our children's generation.

The truth of country music, the real stuff, will prevail ..... generation after generation.

I'm a second-generation migrant. My parents came to this country from Pakistan, just like the Windrush generation.

This union may never be perfect, but generation after generation has shown that it can always be perfected.

Everybody in Hollywood has to beat the 'no' - and if you write code in Silicon Valley, or if you design cars in Detroit, if you manage hedge funds in Lower Manhattan, you also have to learn to beat the 'no.'

People drift from generation to generation, and the morally unthinkable becomes thinkable as the years move on.

Social Security is not just another government spending program. It is a promise from generation to generation.

What I like to say is that we're trying to develop a new generation of technologies that are worthy of the next generation of kids.

For electric power generation, we are very optimistic about solar-thermal technology, and we’re intrigued by the potential of enhanced geothermal energy to replace coal-based power generation. Traditional carbon capture and sequestration-based coal power generation is somewhat unlikely to be competitive.

Every generation’s breakthroughs are proven false by the next generation’s Technology

We are not a postwar generation, but a pre-peace generation. Jesus is coming.

My generation, we're so smart and opinionated, and we know the world we want to live in; we know the future we want. We're such a liberal, forward-thinking generation that's been held back by an older generation that doesn't understand it, doesn't want the world to progress quickly because of old ideologies.

To make America the greatest is my goal, so I beat the Russian and I beat the Pole. And for the U.S.A. won the medal of gold. The Greeks said, 'You're better than the Cassius of old.'

It became obvious to me that the generation who changed the world were my parents' generation, and not only in terms of the Second World War, but if you look at all the social legislation of the '60s - abortion, homosexual law reform, equal pay - it wasn't done by my generation; it was done by people who were adults.

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.

We are the generation that brought the bomb in. We have got to be the generation that should take it out.

It is fine to be upset, but that won't get you anywhere. You gotta think about what you can learn from this. So far, looks like all you've learned is how to beat up on something that can't beat you back.

I'm excited to win a pole at Atlanta, one of the tracks you look forward to qualifying at every single year, and really happy to beat Ryan Newman, who is hard to beat here.

From generation to generation, lights are extinguished and darkness threatens until some one stoops to bear the torch.

I never lost any of my titles. I moved up in weight a few times. At the end of my career, the guys that beat me didn't beat the Jeff Fenech that I know.

The generation who will watch 'Not Safe For Work', my generation, don't care who plays a part.

I was in a Printing-house in Hell, and saw the method in which knowledge is transmitted from generation to generation.

True success comes only when every generation continues to develop the next generation.

Our generation, I think, has a demand for authenticity that exceeds any prior generation.

They say greatness skips a generation, but I think that's because the generation before helps too much.

The trimmings of wealth are not as important to me and my generation as they were to my parents' generation.

I do not write for this generation. I am writing for other ages. If this could read me, they would burn my books, the work of my whole life. On the other hand, the generation which interprets these writings will be an educated generation; they will understand me and say: Not all were asleep in the nighttime of our grandparents.

My father's generation gave to my generation a land of wealth and purpose and world economic dominance.

From my perspective, I'm trying to stand for a generation. You know, each generation has designers who go along with it.

The previous generation paved the way for my generation to gallop unheeded into jobs previously reserved for men.

The ethic behind songs of conscience doesn't change, even though the issues are altered from generation to generation.

For being the largest generation in American history, the Millennial generation inspires a ridiculous degree of overgeneralization.

I don't need to beat Faber, because his ego will always beat him. He's got excuses for every loss he's ever had.

That's always the trick with the sequels, is how much do you repeat from the first one. Because we all get bummed out when you go see a sequel and it's beat for beat.

I consider myself a jazz singer. I think I stick to the roots of improvisation, singing in front of the beat, behind the beat, playing with notes and harmonies.

We wanted to raise a generation of heretics, but instead we raised a generation of ignoramuses

We’re the first generation to feel the impact of climate change and the last generation that can do something about it.'

People try to put us down (Talkin' 'bout my generation) Just because we get around (Talkin' 'bout my generation) Things they do look awful c-c-cold (Talkin' 'bout my generation) Hope I die before I get old.

I'm really excited to share cabaret, the art form, not just with the generations that are above me, but also my generation and the generation under me. I think it's an art form that's incredibly important, and I think that my generation is a little unfamiliar with it.

The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generation.

The flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation. Neither are they transmitted by book learning.

One generation's idea of fast pace might be different from a later generation's.

One generation passeth away and another generation cometh, but the earth abideth forever.

I don't subscribe to the view that talent is deteriorating. I think every generation is brighter than their previous generation.

Differences' is the biggest song in my career. It beat 'Pony,' it beat 'So Anxious' and 'None of Ur Friends Business' as far as popularity and spins.

The Donald Trump who showed up at this press conference, though he did extend his hand to President Pena Nieto, say, I consider you a friend, he said he talked about first-generation, second- generation, third-generation Mexican-American, he said - his words here - he considers them beyond reproach.

Science is the one human activity that is truly progressive. The body of positive knowledge is transmitted from generation to generation.

It's a wonderful thing to be able to see your music going from generation to generation.

Niggy Tardust' is the voice of a generation, a generation that does not define itself simply by what it's born into.