Quotes About Generation

And in time there will come a generation that has got beyond facts, beyond impressions, a generation absolutely colourless, a generation seraphically free from taint of personality, which will see the French Revolution not as it happened, nor as they would like it to have happened, but as it would have happened, had it taken place in the days of the Machine.

Hardship is vanishing, but so is style, and the two are more closely connected than the present generation supposes.

And in time' – his voice rose – 'there will come a generation that had got beyond facts, beyond impressions, a generation absolutely colourless, a generation

Isn't it a shame that future generations can't be here to see all the wonderful things we're doing with their money?

Every regime, without exception, starts building it's ideal citizen by tampering with its women. It takes a whole generation to create a new man, but redesigning women, so they believe, is an overnight job.

A new generation that will hold on to its religion and grudges was being built, just as president ErdoÄŸan had promised years ago.

Alle 30 Jahre kippt die Sprache vollständig um. Die Kommunikation zwischen den Generationen wird dann unmöglich.

Many of this generation, such as Clair, sacrificed dreams of what they wanted to do, in order to do what they had to do for a living. I wonder how many of us, or our descendants, would be able to do so well under such trying circumstances.

Men have no right to put the well-being of the present generation wholly out of the question. Perhaps the only moral trust with any certainty in our hands is the care of our own time.

The younger generation forms a country of its own.

No solo nos marca la familia en la que nacemos, sino también el momento que vive esa familia cuando nacemos.

Come Alive! You're in the Pepsi Generation.

We are the people of this generation, bred in at least modest comfort, housed now in universities, looking uncomfortably to the world we inherit.

O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?

This is an evil generation: they seek a sign.

We're the middle children of history.... no purpose or place. We have no Great War, no Great Depression. Our great war is a spiritual war. Our great depression is our lives.

Inequality of outcome among today's generation is the source of the unfair advantage received by the next generation. If we are concerned about equality of opportunity tomorrow, we need to be concerned about inequality of outcome today.

I couldn't live with myself if I thought that these big strategic choices for my generation were there, and I wasn't even making them or I was making them according to what was expedient rather than what I actually thought was right.

because I believe that each generation should have a chance to see a giant figure of the past from the perspective of its own time and circumstances.

I'm so grateful to be born in the times I live in and to be provided the opportunities I've been given. I'd be wrong to complain.

Then started playing men's cricket when I was 15. That's when I stopped enjoying it. It was long days, 50-over games with men 15 years older who you don't really have anything in common with, all talking about going to the pub.

I'm in the public eye, so I have a responsibility as an actress to my generation. I think that's what acting's all about.

Public service is a core value for people of my generation.

The new, retro pants that are pulled up very high confuse me. I feel like I'm in the eighties. I wasn't even alive in the '80s, but if these pants are any indication of what it was like, I'm sure I wouldn't like that era.