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Quotes About Generation

I'm sick and tired of our generation being called the TV generation. What do you expect? We watched Lee Harvey Oswald get his brains blown out all over. How could we change the channel after that?
~ Denis Leary
It's funny, now there are so many bands that I can never remember any of their names. Maybe it's because I'm old.
~ Judd Apatow
Hemingway seems to be in a funny position. People nowadays can't identify with him closely as a member of their own generation, and he isn't yet historical.
~ Leslie Fiedler
Kids seem to get me when I play colleges - they like it because I go after them. They'll come up after and say I am like their dads, only funny.
~ Lewis Black
I know I want to have children while my parents are still young enough to take care of them.
~ Rita Rudner
Me neither, " Shane put in. "Homie don't play that.""I wonder, sometimes, if your generation speaks English at all, " Amelie said.
~ Rachel Caine, Fade Out
Gone are the days when girls used to cook like their mothers and boys used to dress like their fathers. Now girls drink like their fathers and boys dress like their mothers.
~ Habeeb Akande
The future is not a gift: it is an achievement. Every generation helps make its own future. This is the essential challenge of the present
~ Robert Kennedy
We will respond to the threat of climate change, knowing that the failure to do so would betray our children and future generations
~ Barack Obama
Unless we free ourselves from a dependence on these fossil fuels... we are condemning future generations to global catastrophe
~ Barack Obama
Every generation has the right to build its own world out of the materials of the past, cemented by the hopes of the future.
~ Herbert Hoover
Global education is something that is important for me. Because I believe that our future is going to be built by our young generation.
~ Anousheh Ansari
It seems clear to me also that climate change is a problem which can no longer be left to our future generation.
~ Pope Francis
This is the moral challenge of our generation. Not only are the eyes of the world upon us. More important, succeeding generations depend on us. We cannot rob our children of their future.
~ Ban Ki-moon
Isn't it a shame that future generations can't be here to see all the wonderful things we're doing with their money?
~ Earl Wilson
These kids are the future of the National Football League. They're the next generation that will be playing high school football, NCAA football, and some even to the pros.
~ Troy Vincent
The future of this nation, with the present generation, You must admit is nothing but a joke
~ Ira Gershwin
Education is the investment our generation makes in the future.
~ Mitt Romney
Evolutionary cosmology formulates theories in which a universe is capable of giving rise to and generating future universes out of itself, within black holes or whatever.
~ Robert Nozick
I refuse to condemn your generation and future generations to a planet that's beyond fixing.
~ Barack Obama
I believe children are the future...which is why they must be stopped now!
~ Homer
Ensuring a healthy future means investing in the generation who will carry that future.
~ Mal Fletcher
It's shortsighted not to view the education of a future generation of Americans as a priority for all Americans.
~ Mel Martinez
Through first-class education, a generation marches down the long uncertain road of the future with confidence.
~ Wynton Marsalis