Generations Quotes - Page 11

You know, I come from six generations of college graduates.

Think of the design process as involving first the generation of alternatives and then the testing of these alternatives against a whole array of requirements and restraints.

I really do feel like I'm in a generation where women are empowering and supporting each other. It's so amazing to feel a part of that.

When three generations are present in a family, one of them is bound to be revolutionary.

[Whole] generations may be swept away by the madness of kings in the space of a single hour.

I'm a third-generation American, so I like that American-looking, Northwestern style with a flannel or jean shirt.

Future generations may well have occasion to ask themselves, "What were our parents thinking? Why didn't they wake up when they had a chance?" We have to hear that question from them, now.

If you grew up in my generation, you're going to be influenced by Run DMC, the Beastie Boys and also listen to Metallica - it wasn't segregated anymore.

Only a generation of readers will span a generation of writers.

I'm a third generation superstar.

Festival of the impassioned efforts and manifold ambitions of all forms of youthful activity of every generation springing from the threshold of life.

It is pure illusion to think that an opinion which passes down from century to century, from generation to generation, may not be entirely false.

Every generation has underestimated the potential for finding new ideas . . . Possibilities do not add up. They multiply.

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.

The next generation has always been and will be better than the previous one. If it is not, then the world would not be moving forward.

Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.

[Nationalism is] a set of beliefs taught to each generation in which the Motherland or the Fatherland is an object of veneration and becomes a burning cause for which one becomes willing to kill the children of other Motherlands or Fatherlands.

...Haller's sickness of the soul, as I now know, is not the eccentricity of a single individual, but the sickness of the times themselves, the neurosis of that generation to which Haller belongs, a sickness, it seems, that by no means attacks the weak and worthless only but, rather, precisely those who are strongest in spirit and richest in gifts.

I do not want to believe in God. Therefore I choose to believe in that which I know is scientifically impossible, spontaneous generation leading to evolution.

Do we want to be remembered as the generation that saved the banks and let the biosphere collapse?

Each generation supposes that the world was simpler for the one before it.

We want democracy to survive for all generations to come, not to become the insolvent phantom of tomorrow.

Items of interest will be located, identified, monitored, and remotely controlled through technologies such as radio-frequency identification, sensor networks, tiny embedded servers, and energy harvesters - all connected to the next-generation internet using abundant, low-cost, and high-power computing.

We are raising a generation of young Americans who are, to a very large degree, historically illiterate. It's not their faults. There's no problem about enlisting their interest in history. None. The problem is the teachers so often have no history in their background.

I do want to be a spokesman for clean cycling - I believe somebody has to stand up for the current generation. I'm happy to do that.