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Generation Quotes

If our economies are to flourish, if global poverty is to be banished, and if the wellbeing of the world’s people enhanced – not just in this generation but in succeeding generations – we must make sure we take care of the natural environment and resources on which our economic activity depends.

– Gordon Brown

Every generation has an obligation to leave its children in a better position than it inherited. Our representatives in Washington are breaking faith with that covenant. America must reduce its federal spending and accumulation of debt for the sake of generations to come.

– David Malpass

I got into politics a little bit by chance, as a person from the first generation of the Solidarity movement.

– Donald Tusk

To see how many Italians are going out of Italy, the sort of exodus, a great generation leaving my country, I think is the worst nightmare for me as prime minister but also for the country, of course.

– Enrico Letta

It’s the same thing now. When I go onstage the young people scream and holler as much as the older generation.

– Etta James

I remember really bonding with the first generation kids, the Chinese Canadian kids, and in high school bonding with the Latin kids and the East Indian kids. It was very interesting because it made me open to lots of musical sounds.

– Nelly Furtado

Those of my generation who grew up in the midst of the Cold War had a very, very strong awareness and very much were sort of influenced by the demonization of the Soviet Union, whether that was through the Cuban Missile Crisis or duck-and-cover, or any of those things that so affected us then.

– Edward Zwick

We’re a show-and-tell generation. People want to see behind the scenes. The more involved and invited they are, the closer affinity they have to your brand.

– Eva Chen

My generation is having its midlife crisis in its 20s.

– Edward Norton

My generation was the tail end of the Cold War.

– Mike Pompeo

The language of the younger generation has the brutality of the city and an assertion of threatening power at hand, not to come. It is military, theatrical, and at its most coherent probably a lasting repudiation of empty courtesy and bureaucratic euphemism.

– Elizabeth Hardwick

People who study the way religions develop have shown that if you have a charismatic teacher, and you don’t have an institution develop around that teacher within about a generation to transmit succession within the group, the movement just dies.

– Elaine Pagels

There’s a whole generation of women who never really heard the word investment before, when it came to fashion. They’ve been buying things because they were cheap.

– Michael Kors

From one generation to the next, The Beatles will remain the most important rock band of all time.

– Dave Grohl

I remember the 1940s as a time when we were united in a way known only to that generation. We belonged to a common cause-the war.

– Gene Tierney

I’m in agreement with David Miliband when he says our generation of Labour politicians are not willing to hand over the direction of the country without a serious electoral fight.

– Douglas Alexander

Each generation, as it seeks to advance the common good, must ask anew: ‘What are the requirements that governments may reasonably impose upon citizens, and how far do they extend? By appeal to what authority can moral dilemmas be resolved?’

– Pope Benedict XVI

I think readers are always patient. Look at the ‘Harry Potter’ series. Some have given up on this generation of kids as game and TV addicts, but lots of people spend lots of time patiently reading through hundreds of pages of dense prose. I think reading a comic by comparison is a lot more immediate.

– Dave Gibbons

Television has dried up for my generation, so it’s plays and films. You get used to being lazy doing films, but classical theatre’s going to finish me off.

– Michael Gambon

After a big war a nation doesn’t want another for a generation or more.

– Edward Grey

It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous.

– Charles Dudley Warner

A lot of the fiction I read growing up was post-war American, and not all of it centers on Manhattan, but around people of the Mad Men generation, people like John Cheever and, in more modern times, Don DeLillo, who I always mention.

– Dylan Moran

Before they did all those shows on Jackson Pollock, I loved the way he formulated his paintings. I loved Basquiat – I was into the whole Beat generation, Kerouac, etc., and all those artists talked about that and Kerouac, so I just got in the middle of being spontaneous.

– Matt Schulze

You’re talking about a younger generation, Generation Y, whose interpersonal communication skills are different from Generation X. The younger generation is more comfortable saying something through a digital mechanism than even face to face.

– Erik Qualman

There are all kinds of historians and scholars who say that Brutus could have been a son of Caesar. That’s definitely a possibility. He’s a generation younger than Caesar.

– David Denman

My generation is under-entertained.

– Dave Chappelle

Who are we to think that our generation is going to be the first generation to benefit from all the sacrifices that others have made without giving some modern-day equivalent of our own lives, fortunes, and sacred honor?

– Matt Bevin

It used to be that one poet in each generation performed poems in public. In the twenties, it was Vachel Lindsay, who sometimes dropped to his knees in the middle of a poem. Then Robert Frost took over, and made his living largely on the road.

– Donald Hall

All of the generations go to what is chic for them, and theater seems to be an older generation’s art form.

– Estelle Parsons

There is always a heavy demand for fresh mediocrity. In every generation the least cultivated taste has the largest appetite.

– Paul Gauguin

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