Generations Quotes - Page 26

I pray every day for my little girls. It's hard out there for the younger generation.

Every generation thinks that they invented sex.

The modern individual is committed to being successful, not to being a person. He belongs rightly to the action generation whose motto is do more but feel less.

Our masters have not heard the people's voice for generations and it is much, much louder than they care to remember.

What our Seventh Generation will have is a consequence of our actions today.

When I did the film Generations, in which the character died, I felt like a guest for the first time. That made me very sad.

Where a generation ago people felt entitled to a chance at education, they now feel entitled to the credential affirming that they have completed a course of study regardless of their actual mastery.

Somebody asked me what I thought next generation meant and what about the PlayStation 3 was next generation. The only next gen system I've seen is the Wii - the PS3 and the Xbox 360 feel like better versions of the last, but pretty much the same game with incremental improvement.

Where else? I belong to a lost generation and am comfortable only in the company of others who are lost and lonely.

Who's to say that there is any more support for Freud's psychoanalytic concept of the superego than there is for that old time religion that asserted that there is a God who ordains what is right and wrong, and that His righteousness endures for all generations?

A characteristic of older folksongs, in most cases, is that we don't know their composers or authors. Older folksongs were written often with no commercial purpose in mind. They were passed down by word of mouth, from generation to generation.

But those guys (on 'Idol') will never be known for defining a generation of young suburbanites like (blink) did.

I was one of the first generations to watch television. TV exposes people to news, to information, to knowledge, to entertainment. How is it bad?

There is already a generation of European graduates who feel they have been robbed of the better future they were led to expect. They are members of a new class: the precariat.

We're genuinely happy if some musicians of this younger generation are influenced by our music, as we were ourselves influenced 10 years ago by older musicians.

Wild beasts and birds are by right not the property merely of the people today, but the property of the unborn generations, whose belongings we have no right to squander.

The question we all face is what sort of culture we will live in for the rest of our lives and then hand on to the next generation - one that embraces these most basic of values, or one that collapses because of their absence?

What is buried in the past of one generation falls to the next to claim.

But there is a need to explore ways we can preserve the promise of Social Security for future generations.

Traditional marriage between a man and a woman has been a cornerstone of our society for generations. If we are going to change that, it ought to be done by the will of the people.

Any creative work that is truly alive is influenced by a thousand chance factors in its generation.

Men have slow reflexes. In general it takes several generations later for them to understand.

That which is truly human no generation learns from the one before it. No generation learns from another how to love. No generation has a shorter task assigned to it except insofar as the previous generation shirked its task and deluded itself.

As is the case with that generation [Millennials], they look like they're interested and all fired up and ready to go, and then Election Day comes.

Anyone of my generation who trusts government probably has an I.Q. that would make a good golf score.