Quotes About Generation

Los más elevados entre nosotros no siempre son los más sabios, y la generación más vieja no siempre es la mejor para juzgar qué es lo correcto

the highest among us aren't always the wisest, and the older generation isn't always the best to judge what's right.

This generation has altered the composition of the atmosphere on a global scale through … a steady increase in carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels. —Lyndon Johnson Special Message to Congress, 1965

Much later, when I thought about it, I realized that my folks were typical of their generation of parents: Their idea of raising children was making sure we were clothed, fed, and protected. They didn't focus much on us unless we were sick or had done something wrong. They didn't hold conversations with us. Love was understood rather than expressed, and values were transmitted by example, not word of mouth.

On the Black Sea, my father saw it begin. And on the Black Sea, seventy years on, I saw the beginning of its end.

All in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and dedicated to flight, I was disappointed by the wrinkle in history that had brought me along one generation late. I had missed all the great times and adventures in flight.

When we start putting together systems to make sure that future generations obey, what we end up doing is building an institution that conforms people to a pattern. They don't have their own faith, they're living off the residue of faith of a previous generation.

The '60s was one of the first times the power of music was used by a generation to bind them together.

Years had passed, but we were still arguing about the same stuff. These patterns repeat themselves, with parents and children—that's another reason I went to India. If I was going to have a family, I wanted it to be totally different from the one I'd had.

Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great. You can be that great generation.

Overcoming poverty is not a task of charity, it is an act of justice. Like Slavery and Apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings. Sometimes it falls on a generation to be great. YOU can be that great generation. Let your greatness blossom.

Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great, you can be that generation

Freedom can never be taken for granted. Each generation must safeguard it and extend it. Your parents and elders sacrificed much so that you should have freedom without suffering what they did. Use this precious right to ensure that the darkness of the past never return.

Then he raised his voice and went on: 'Verily I say unto you. This generation shall not pass till all these things be fulfilled...' It was as if darkness too had fallen into the building and there was no one to light the way.

The transmission of knoledge from generation to generation is one of the miracles of civilization.

To remain vital, culture must be renewed in the minds of the members of every generation. Outsource memory, and culture withers.

The generation effect requires precisely the kind of struggle that automation seeks to alleviate.

Women's empowerment helps raise economic productivity and reduce infant mortality. It contributes to improved health and nutrition. It increases the chances of education for the next generation.

OVER THE PAST two generations, America has suffered a quiet catastrophe. That catastrophe is the collapse of work—for men.

Culture is sustained in our synapses...It's more than what can be reduced to binary code and uploaded onto the Net. To remain vital, culture must be renewed in the minds of the members of every generation. Outsource memory, and culture withers.

Generation C (people born after 1990) as connected, communicating, content-centric, computerized, community-oriented and always clicking.

For a generation, Tories have repeated Baroness Thatcher's acid line: "The trouble with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money." After the bailout of the banks, that seems to be the trouble with financial capitalism as well.

Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen has been the Queensland premier the whole time we've been in Australia, and the state is a national joke for having a Deep North government thats said to resemble governments of a generation or more ago in some parts of the US Deep South - governments that always talk about getting things done and never talk about rights.

Progress ages badly. Each generation brings a new model of progressivism which discards with contempt the previous model. Nothing is more grotesque than yesterday's progressive.