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Quotes About Generation

dementia to come forward to capture the financial mind. It is also the time generally required for a new generation to enter the scene, impressed, as had been its predecessors, with its own innovative genius.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
It seemed clear that wars were not made by genereations and their special stupidities, but that wars were made instead by something ignorant in the human heart.
~ John Knowles
For a generation of kids who grew up without a home phone, basic telephone etiquette is increasingly an issue.
~ Unknown
People are just uptight because the kids are having fun. They didn't have the same freedom because they didn't take it; they just followed the lives laid down by their parents. And they're jealous of the people who didn't do that.
~ John Lennon
They say that we are better educated than our parents' generation. What they mean is that we go to school longer. They are not the same thing.
~ Douglas Yates
Artists of my generation were not educated. We were not given the equipment because it was generally believed to be irrelevant.
~ Eric Fischl
The education that we have so far succeeded in giving to the bulk of our citizens has produced a generation of mental slatterns.
~ Dorothy L. Sayers
I think this generation can play a very important role. If we act now, this could be the first generation to witness universal education.
~ Shakira
Unless we make education a priority, an entire generation of Americans could miss out on the American dream.
~ Blanche Lincoln
With technology, we can achieve universal access to secondary education within a generation.
~ Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka
America's education system has become less a ladder of opportunity than a structure to transmit inequity from one generation to the next.
~ Nicholas Kristof
Our generation was supposed to be about trying to deal with nuclear concerns and environmental disasters.
~ Michael Stipe
Yet, most of the readily accessible reserves of oil formed over hundreds of millions of years will be consumed within a single generation, spanning the years from 1960 to 1995.
~ Lester R. Brown
The generation that destroys the environment is not the generation that pays the price. That is the problem.
~ Wangari Maathai
Climate change is the environmental challenge of this generation, and it is imperative that we act before it's too late.
~ John Delaney
I believe the destiny of your generation - and your nation - is a rendezvous with excellence.
~ Lyndon B. Johnson
The experience of our generation: that capitalism will not die a natural death.
~ WALTER BENJAMIN
The meaning of experience is typically one generation behind the experience. The content of new situations, both private and corporate, is typically the preceding situation.
~ Marshall McLuhan
There is nothing more important than parents passing on a generational legacy of faith and values to their children.
~ James Dobson
Each child in each generation chooses faith or disbelief. Faith is not an inheritance; it is a choice.
~ Henry B. Eyring
Discovering the beauty and joy of faith is a path that every new generation must take on its own.
~ Pope Benedict XVI
even as he bred new ones from his famed and well-worn loins. It
~ Madeline Miller
Some men gain glory after they die, while others fade. What is admired in one generation is abhorred in another." He spread his broad hands. "We cannot say who will survive the holocaust of memory.
~ Madeline Miller
My mother has forbidden it. Because of the prophecy." "What prophecy?" I had not heard of this. "That I will be the best warrior of my generation.
~ Madeline Miller