Top 1200 My Generation Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

The information that is passed from person to person and from generation to generation is the primary factor that gives humans a competitive advantage over other animals.

One has only to contemplate the magnitude of this task to concede that the spontaneous generation of a living organism is impossible. Yet here we are-as a result, I believe, of spontaneous generation.

It isrequisite from time to time to remind one generation of the experience which led a former generation to important legislative actions.

Building capacities for the young generation is going to make a better generation and a better future tomorrow for Africa.

I'm not saying that more performance wouldn't be better - all these technologies are going to get better - that's the difference between first generation and second generation.

One picture in ten thousand, perhaps, ought to live in the applause of mankind, from generation to generation until the colors fade and blacken out of sight or the canvas rot entirely away.

There will never be a generation of great men until there has been a generation of free women - of free mothers.

With 'Fantasy Factory,' I want to take skating beyond the Tony Hawk generation and represent the street-skating generation.

[The generation engaged, inspired, worked for change] that generation, it's coming. They're not the majority yet but they're gonna be the majority soon.

What cannot be talked about cannot be put to rest. And if it is not, the wounds will fester from generation to generation.

To have a body of work is a blessing - when you have songs that have been around generation after generation that they call timeless music, you can work that for a long time.

The younger generation is vibrant with a new psychology; the new spirit is awake in the masses . . . Each generation . . . will have its creed.

I feel incredibly blessed that I'm in my generation and not my mother's generation. I feel that I'm very much benefitting from the strides that the women before me made.

God put us here to prepare this place for the next generation. That's our job. Raising children and helping the community, that's preparing for the next generation.

I feel like folk music is almost like an old recipe that is passed on from generation to generation.

It took a generation for companies to recognise their responsibilities in terms of labour practices and another generation for them to recognise their environmental obligations.

Transferring successfully to the next generation means producing work that's as good as or better than the work of the first generation that founded the agency.

In the end, the American dream is not a sprint, or even a marathon, but a relay. Our families don't always cross the finish line in the span of one generation. But each generation passes on to the next the fruits of their labor.

I think millennials are a generation that's a little bit behind, maybe four or five years behind the previous generation, as far as when they buy a house.

More and more - especially the younger generation - are functioning outside the binary concept of gender. That's just next-generation stuff.

We need to awaken the next generation to understand that we are all change-makers. The nation is not as strong as its government but its next generation

To continue living, we have to die. That's the story of humanity - generation after generation - that we are going to die. There's nothing dramatic about death except that one loses one's life.

We were second-generation immigrants, and it was luxury enough to go to college. The luxury of the arts was still a generation away.

Every generation wants to be the last. Every generation hates the next trend in music they can't understand. We hate to give up those reins of our culture. To find our own music playing in elevators. The ballad for our revolution, turned into background music for a television commercial. To find our generation's clothes and hair suddenly retro.

Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience... from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation.

We are watching the beginnings of the defiant self-assertion of a new generation of Americans, a generation who are looking forward to finishing their education with no jobs, no future, but still saddled with enormous and unforgivable debt.

I do not think that there is any time in our history when things were perfect. I do not expect such times in the near future either. But I think every generation has to examine what needs to be done, what belongs to its peace and proceed. And so what needs to be done will change with time depending on the conditions, whatever the conditions happen to be. And they will not be the same for generation after generation.

When you do good music, it moves over from generation to generation. Like Bob Marley. Like Papa Michigan. Jimmy Cliff.

What is well rooted cannot be pulled up. What is firmly grasped will not slip loose. It will be honoured from generation to generation.

My generation was going to change the direction America took. I was completely convinced that we would have a very different kind of society as a result of the protests that I was part of, and I think that's partially true. We obviously never really got to what many of my generation believed was possible, but the amount of change I've seen in my lifetime, both social change and political change, is staggering. I think my generation can take a little bit of credit for that by just opening up the conversation.

The name ‘Girls Generation’ in itself contains dreams. And that dream of making the world a Girls Generation will never change.

A generation without history is a generation that not only loses a nation's memory but loses a sense of what it's like to be inside a human skin.

Our job is obvious: we need to get out of the way, shine a light, and empower a new generation to teach itself and to go further and faster than any generation ever has.

The beat generation is a coffeehouse full of people expectantly looking at their watches waiting for the beat generation to come on.

It is pure illusion to think that an opinion which passes down from century to century, from generation to generation, may not be entirely false.

I think we've all had enough of Coltrane saxophonists. There's a case of someone ruining a generation of saxophonists, as Louis Armstrong may have ruined a generation of trumpeters.

I inspired a new generation in the same way the previous generation inspired me. I believe that our democracy itself is very inspiring.

Every generation proclaims that each must lead his own life, but seldom grants the subsequent generation the right to lead theirs.

My father's generation of Saudi men are more liberal than the men of my generation. But with women, it's the opposite.

The Gen X generation never got past 'Reality Bites,' apparently, and my generation, the Gen Yers... Facebook? Maybe a conservative revolution?

People of each generation in the twentieth century "were three times more likely to experience depression" than people of the preceding generation.

It would have been more obvious to go into film, based on the generation before me, but the generation before them were all composers or classical musicians.

There will be no silence from Canada. Our friendship has no limit. Generation after generation we have traveled many difficult miles together side by side.

Remorse is extremely useful for a generation which has in fact dirtied its hands but for the next generation you cannot ask, for instance, young Germans today to feel guilty about Hitlerism.

Many of us, of course, have children, and I think that the type of country that we are going to leave in our wake by rewarding bad behavior... is not a better handoff to the next generation and generation after that.

What's really important for me is, as an old man, I'm known by my own generation and the next generation know me, too.

I believe that we are the generation that will rise and fulfill the Great Commission. But if we don't; some generation will. God has decreed it!

You will attract the younger generation and they might well prove tougher than the older generation. What we are trying to do is to look at the future and see what we can do to bring some stability back to people's lives.

This generation can only reach this generation.

In a lot of ways I was a generation ahead of my generation; I had a working mother wheneveryone else’s mother was staying at home.

Every generation has the obligation to free men's minds for a look at new worlds . . . to look out from a higher plateau than the last generation.

My generation had Doris Day as a role model, then Gloria Steinem--then Princess Diana. We are the most confused generation.

Generation after generation can't just be loaded with more and more nuclear weapons and not ultimately dance to that music.

I always refer to Bharatanatyam as the 'now prevalent form of Bharatanatyam' in my interviews. The style changes from generation to generation.

There are issues that shape every generation and define every age. Climate change is just such an issue and our political generation has got to deal with it.

The single greatest reason why we are losing a generation is because the home is no longer the place of the transference of the faith. We live in a day of ‘outsourcing’…Today, we have a generation of people that outsource their kids.

It is pure illusion to think that an opinion that passes down from century to century, from generation to generation, may not be entirely false.

I love being Jewish, but I think that our generation is the first generation that crossed that line between being a cultural versus a practicing Jew.

This generation, our generation of people who benefited, must always be the pioneers who look to younger people and say mediocrity is not accommodated in what we do.

One of the greatest dignities of humankind is that each successive generation is invested in the welfare of each new generation.