Generations Quotes - Page 24

I'm the lead singer of the Beach Boys and an ambassador of this amazing music that touched a generation.

These Utopian idealists like the Clintons who think they really do have the answers. They think they're following the best minds of their generation, but they're not the best minds. They don't realize that they may be the worst minds of their generation.

We owe at least this much to future generations, from whom we have borrowed a fragile planet called Earth.

It was an idealistic vision that generation had.

We are the generation that brought the bomb in. We have got to be the generation that should take it out.

In a few generations more, there will probably be no room at all allowed for animals on the earth: no need of them, no toleration of them.

Even very recently, the elders could say: 'You know, I have been young and you never have been old.' But today's young people can reply: 'You never have been young in the world I am young in, and you never can be.' ... the older generation will never see repeated in the lives of young people their own unprecedented experience of sequentially emerging change. This break between generations is wholly new: it is planetary and universal.

With lower start-up costs and a vastly expanded market for online services, the result is a global economy that for the first time will be fully digitally wired - the dream of every cyber-visionary of the early 1990s, finally delivered, a full generation later

Most oldsters are fascinated by the Future, while the young love to look back to earlier days, especially their own.

Let us become the first generation to decide to be the last that sees empty classrooms, lost childhoods and wasted potential

It has always been the task of the new generation to provoke changes.

My opinion - nay more, my conviction - is that, in the present state of science, as you rightly say, spontaneous generation is a chimera; and it would be impossible for you to contradict me, for my experiments all stand forth to prove that spontaneous generation is a chimera.

I've led this empty life for over forty years and now I can pass that heritage on and ensure that the misery will continue for at least one more generation.

Seeds carry life from generation to generation without end. Through the seeds speak the voices of the ancestors. Each time we plant a seed, we become ancestors for the generations to come.

I've survived quite a few generations. That's because I never lost my enthusiasm. I wake up every morning like on Christmas Day, waiting for the gifts.

A food truce, the picnic suspension of oedipal feeling that permits the generations to love each other at family reunions.

My grandmother's generation and generations before always saw beyond the horizons of their own lives and their own circumstances. They believed that opportunity created today would lead to prosperity tomorrow.

This is the generation whose first cry of life was the Hungarian uprising.

I am part of a vast generation of people who perpetually live as if they just graduated from college.

Everything takes time... and that's something that your generation find it a lot harder to adjust to. You have all grown up expecting things to go your way almost instantaneously. You all expect to live the lives you chose. Especially a successful young man like yourself. But it takes time.

The economy schoolchildren currently expect to live under and serve would not survive a generation of young people trained to think critically.

It is worthwhile for anyone to have behind him a few generations of honest, hard-working ancestry.

Imagine the amazing good fortune of the generation that gets to see the end of the world. This is as marvelous as being there in the beginning.

In mathematics alone each generations adds a new story to the old structure.

I'm afraid for all those who'll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines. What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them!