Generations Quotes - Page 17

I'm really looking forward to a time when generations after us look back and say how ridiculous it was that humans were driving cars.

Parents who wonder where the younger generation is going should remember where it came from.

You might like it as a joke or because you liked it then, but there isn't a whole new generation discovering Wham!.

If you know that you are not sure, you have a chance to improve the situation. I want to demand this freedom for future generations.

It seems clear to me also that climate change is a problem which can no longer be left to our future generation.

We, the generation that faces the next century, can add the solemn injunction ''If we don't do the impossible, we shall be faced with the unthinkable.

If we don't start acknowledging our correct position as nothing more than a part of the planet as opposed to this perception that we're superior, then we won't have it much longer. We're facing a very turbulent, war-torn, drought-ridden existence for future generations unless we act now.

All in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and dedicated to flight, I was disappointed by the wrinkle in history that had brought me along one generation late. I had missed all the great times and adventures in flight.

My big advantage was to have my father accept me as first-generation.

Graduates, I'm asking each of you, at some point, to act up, be misbehaved. Buck the system. Fight for what you believe in. This is the time to do it. You're the ones to do it. Your world, is like no other generation, you actually get to create the world that you can imagine.

I often quote an African proverb that says: "The world is not ours, the earth is not ours, It's a treasure we hold in trust for future generations." And I often hope we will be worthy of that trust.

I always try to set a positive example for my generation and promote confidence.

This generation is burning the mass media to the ground.

Of all things I find most unbearable is the injustice of one generation to another.

There is always Joker to see through the delusion. Generation succeeds generation, but there is a fool walking the earth who is never ravaged by time.

When it comes to lead referral generation, the customer experience is it.

Every few generations there are people who come along that change the way we look at the world, for musical enthusiasts Monk is one of these individuals.

You words affect generations after you. Speak blessings and favor over them.

Hip-hop gave a generation a common ground that didn't require either race to lose anything; everyone gained.

It’s a sort of furtiveness … Like we were a generation of furtive. You know, with an inner knowledge there’s no use flaunting on that level, the level of the ‘public’, a kind of beatness – I mean, being right down to it, to ourselves, because we all really know where we are – and a weariness with all the forms, all the conventions of the world … It’s something like that. So I guess you might say we’re a beat generation.

I believe that whoever is successful should help ensure that the next generation can be successful, too.

It is very remarkable, that in the book of life, we find some almost of all kinds of occupations, who notwithstanding served God in their respective generations, and shone as so many lights in the world.

To fail to exhibit that we take truth seriously at those points where there is a cost in our doing so, is to push the next generation in the relative, dialectical millstream that surrounds us.

Divorce is my generation's coming of age ceremony - a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.

Wherever you are, design your life. Live the values of your generation.