Quotes About Generation

Brooklyn, when I was growing up, was awesome. It was stoopball and stickball - a lot of kids... the baby boom generation were all in the area. It was just a really great place.

The reproduction of mankind is a great marvel and mystery. Had God consulted me in the matter, I should have advised him to continue the generation of the species by fashioning them out of clay.

So that the new generation that will be born can enjoy happiness. To pay the cost we will have to shoulder corpses and cross a river of blood (Riza Hawkeye -- Fullmetal Alchemist)

Each generation has a right to choose for itself the form of government it believes most promotive of its happiness.

To serve thy generation this thy fate: "Written in water " swiftly fades thy name But he who loves his kind does first or late A work too great for fame.

Ebola is not just a health crisis. Across West Africa, a generation of young people risks being lost to an economic catastrophe.

As patients and consumers, we are better informed today about our health care than any previous generation.

The awareness that health is dependent upon habits that we control makes us the first generation in history that to a large extent determines its own destiny.

It's a different era. Our job now is to show leadership and vision and to help the next generation of artists.

New ideas for innovation grow out of the minds of each new generation. Having an institution of higher learning that can help young people put those ideas into action is critical.

I've got a long history of suicid in my family; the good news is it skips a generation, so, if I'm lucky, my kids will kill themselves.

Never before in our country's history has a generation been so empowered, so wealthy, so privileged - and yet so empty.

People are hungry for stories. It's part of our very being. Storytelling is a form of history, of immortality too. It goes from one generation to another. -Studs Terkel

Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.

How fortunate it was for the world that when these great trials came upon it there was a generation that terror could not conquer and brutal violence could not enslave.

The writing of history reflects the interests, predilections, and even prejudices of a given generation.

We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go.

Every generation tailors history to its taste.

When the history of our times is written, will we be remembered as the generation that turned our backs in a moment of global crisis or will it be recorded that we did the right thing?

If every nation gets the government it deserves, every generation writes the history which corresponds with its view of the world.

I think future generations will look back at this history of our country and call us barbarians for murdering millions of babies who we never gave a chance to live.

Today's population of adolescents and young adults is the largest in our nation's history.

I don't want to speak too disparagingly of my generation (actually I do, we had a chance to change the world but opted for the Home Shopping Network Instead).

You are all a lost generation," Gertrude Stein said to Hemingway. We weren't lost. We knew where we were, all right, but we wouldn't go home. Ours was the generation that stayed up all night.