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Generation Quotes

We can’t expect the world to get better by itself. We have to create something we can leave the next generation.

– Gwen Ifill

For some reason, it popped into my head the notion that a lot of the Next Generation cast in the long run of that show managed to step behind the camera.

– Michael Shanks

Is the minor convenience of allowing the present generation the luxury of doubling its energy consumption every 10 years worth the major hazard of exposing the next 20,000 generations to this lethal waste?

– David R. Brower

The Next Generation Space Telescope, which will be located much further away from the Earth than the Hubble Space Telescope presently is, will also explore the infrared part of the spectrum.

– Claude Nicollier

My generation was not only maligned in book reviews and attacked in graduate school but we lived to see our adored and adorable daughters wonder why feminism had become a dirty word.

– Erica Jong

I get little kids who recognize me from ‘Mary Poppins,’ and it just delights me because it’s our third generation.

– Dick Van Dyke

Woe to the generation of sons who find their censers empty of the rich incense of prayer, whose fathers have been too busy or too unbelieving to pray, and perils inexpressible and consequences untold are their unhappy heritage.

– Edward McKendree Bounds

History is the present. That’s why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.

– E. L. Doctorow

My studio is a laptop. Everybody I work with is the same. We make computer music, we’re the laptop generation.

– David Guetta

There is something about this generation living now, that we don’t accept death.

– Elena Anaya

As Michigan’s voice on the Senate Finance Committee and Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, I will continue working to make sure the next generation of advanced technologies and alternative fuel vehicles are made right here in America.

– Debbie Stabenow

‘Plan Nine From Outer Space’ for a new generation, ‘Battlefield Earth’ is set in the year 3000, after the beings from the planet Psychlo have conquered our planet in only nine minutes.

– Elvis Mitchell

Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation.

– Gertrude Stein

The modern minds in each generation are the critics who preserve us from a petrifying world, who will not leave us to walk undisturbed in the ways of our fathers.

– Edith Hamilton

When I get my hands on painting materials I don’t give a damn about other people’s painting… every generation must start again afresh.

– Maurice de Vlaminck

I have come to the conclusion that none of us in our generation feels as guilty about sin as we should or as our forefathers did.

– Francis Schaeffer

If you think about ‘The Pill’ by Loretta, that was totally blacklisted back then. But she revolutionized and liberated a generation of women – country listeners and beyond – that were sort of in that box and were able to break out of it.

– Maren Morris

This generation of filmmakers is very good. They’re seasoned, for some reason.

– Dennis Farina

I’ve struggled so much, growing up, with just feeling that my life is valid because it’s not filled with these hyper-dramatic moments, and I think a lot of people of my generation feel that way. We’re so inundated with hyper-drama that people crave everyday life.

– Ellar Coltrane

I’m fascinated by how much has changed from one generation to another. There are young people growing up now for whom apartheid is just a distant memory and the idea of military service is an abstract notion.

– Damon Galgut

My ultimate goal is for that next generation coming up, who didn’t see me play, go, ‘Oh, he used to play football?’

– Michael Strahan

God knows why nobody ever learns from the preceding generation – but they don’t.

– Doris Lessing

When you touch the life of a man of this generation, that influence is felt through generations yet to come.

– Gordon B. Hinckley

We don’t have a prayer of defeating the Red Threat of our generation without a long boom of almost unprecedented duration.

– Mitch Daniels

I like to keep in touch with younger photographers. It’s important that a younger generation comes up and questions the assumptions made by old farts like me.

– Martin Parr

Since the dawn of recorded music, every generation has felt shocked by the musical tastes of the next.

– Dan Hill

There’s a whole generation of young people who are faced with the so-called ‘jobless recovery.’ Necessity is the mother of invention. They are out there, all around the world, creating new companies.

– Don Tapscott

The one thing that I’ve learned is that people don’t change. Each new generation has the same stuff that the last one did. It’s one of those things where jazz kind of works in five-year cycles.

– Christian Scott

I’ve had a very lucky life because I’m of this generation where everything was possible.

– Deborah Moggach

I want to work with the teachers’ union. But as I said out there, we have to put the kids first and we are letting down a generation of California children. It’s not acceptable.

– Meg Whitman

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