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Quotes About Generation

My mom and dad understood that every generation has to earn its freedom over and over again.
~ Martin Luther King III
We're a lazy, undisciplined generation. I don't exempt myself: I spend way too much, even though I make a good income.
~ Ben Stein
For conservatives, the issue is that for generations now, they have failed to make the case for their values. They haven't even conveyed conservative values to many of their children. And when they have, the university has often succeeded in undoing them.
~ Dennis Prager
Gen Y consume most of their media online and mobile. Gen Y, as the Baby Boomers drop off, are the largest cohort with the largest amount of money - despite the fact that half of them are unemployed.
~ Shane Smith
This is the first generation to grow up on Thatcher - it's a different ethos. It's money minded, and it's the cult of yourself. Now that's fine, except when it falls down, and you can't achieve your goals - through high unemployment, through the fact that you probably need inherited money to get anywhere.
~ Jane Campion
No country can afford to lose a generation to unemployment.
~ Sharan Burrow
Anyone who has lived in an area with high unemployment knows how it erodes social bonds, lowers the resilience of the unemployed and their families, and damages the prospects of the next generation.
~ Sharan Burrow
It is simply unfair for the Internal Revenue Service to lay claim to the bulk of a small business or farm when a death occurs. Federal tax policy should instead be geared toward helping the next generation keep these family-owned operations alive.
~ Cindy Hyde-Smith
When I think back to the early years of my career, I wish I would have been less tolerant of the norms of that time. Compared to today's generation, my generation didn't call attention to unfair practices like equal pay and promotion tracks as often.
~ Belinda Johnson
Ronaldo is a fantastic player, one of the best I've ever seen, but he's been a bit unfortunate to be of the same generation as Messi. Consequently, they have to share the limelight.
~ Jay-Jay Okocha
This is the first generation in all of recorded history that can do something about the scourge of poverty. We have the means to do it. We can banish hunger from the face of the earth.
~ Hubert H. Humphrey
Like as a young child may not bring forth the things that belong to the aged, even so have I disposed the world which I created.
~ Compton Gage
We are the generation of Social Media, Our biggest Revolution is a Tweet of 141 Characters.
~ Sandra Chami Kassis
chosen generation!
~ Calling people
The result is that the same generation is in danger of growing up with 170 terabytes of knowledge and information, but not more than a few bits of wisdom.
~ Sachin Kalbag
I believe that in each generation God has called enough men and women to evangelize all the yet unreached tribes of the earth. It is not God who does not call. It is man who will not respond!
~ Isobel Miller Kuhn
There will never be a generation of great men until there has been a generation of free women - of free mothers.
~ Robert Green Ingersoll
In every generation women have to be taught their place one more time. The subordination of women is never accomplished for once and for all.
~ Rosemary Radford Ruether
Women's bodies have their own wisdom, and a system of birth refined over 100,000 generations is not so easily overpowered.
~ Sarah J. Buckley
In the poorest countries...it is women who are the key to breaking out of poverty...and preparing another generation for...leading their countries into real security.
~ Queen Noor of Jordan
Women gain social influence through their roles as mothers, transmitters of culture, and parents for the next generation.
~ Patricia Hill Collins
I really do feel like I'm in a generation where women are empowering and supporting each other. It's so amazing to feel a part of that.
~ Hailee Steinfeld
Change comes not from men and women changing their minds, but from the change from one generation to the next.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
Keeping young people out of community work sponsored by faith groups means an entire generation won't be as well-equipped to think and believe for themselves.
~ Erin O'Toole