Generations Quotes - Page 36

Mexico has lost an icon whose work has transcended generations and borders.

I don't consider this younger generation to be lost, quite the opposite, they must continue. It is up to them. The old political system no longer functions.

I'm a poet born in the era of Andy Warhol and a generation that wanted to be famous.

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

The problem is that I am in the wrong century to burn things. I am the wrong generation to let it go.

The heterodoxy of one generation is the orthodoxy of the next.

In the process of natural selection, then, any device that can insert a higher proportion of certain genes into subsequent generations will come to characterize the species.

Mosts scientist are unable to arrive at a specific definition of biological evolution. “Biological evolution is… change in the properties of populations of organisms (you and me) that [happen during] the lifetime of a single individual. The changes in populations that are considered evolutionary are those that are inheritable via the genetic material from one generation to the next

The education that we have so far succeeded in giving to the bulk of our citizens has produced a generation of mental slatterns.

Further, the next generation of terrorists will grow up in a digital world, with ever more powerful and easy-to-use hacking tools at their disposal.

These kids [of the current generation] have no fear of technology ... sort of like I have no fear of a refrigerator.

I don't want to live in a bubble, in my craft or in the world... I can't, I would be cheating myself out of my generation and the world we live in.

With the continued support of citizens who refuse to accept inaction at the expense of future generations, we will lead the world toward a sustainable future.

Appropriation was the language of my generation in many ways. It came out of Duchamp, Warhol, Johns, Lichtenstein.

Some argued that the youth of today were poorly educated and insufficiently industrious, but one of them had sought to validate his generation by spending considerable time and effort chiseling an obscene word in the concrete picnic table, and he had spelled it correctly.

I'm interested in themes that endure from generation to generation.

The whole slacker generation totally didn't apply to us musically.

I guess the negative thing that happens to me is that I'm old now. They said there was a generation I was too young for and now some will say there's probably 10 generations I'm too old for. They'll say, isn't he dead or retired or whatever? Or it just becomes fashionable to say "Oh he's not funny anymore," which, I don't know, maybe to them I'm not. I'm more likely to hear that now than I am to hear that I'm unacceptably risqué.

To assume the gospel in one generation is to lose it in the next.

Sometimes we deny being worthy of praise, hoping to generate an argument we would be pleased to lose.

The younger generation can smell fakes - Authenticity trumps cool.

The bigger-is-better form of evangelism may have passed, .. The emerging generation has been so advertised, media-tised and oversold that the smaller, quieter and more authentic is the growing edge of their experience.

I think you're always gonna have half the generation that's lazy. But I think it makes the other half work that much harder.

First, the firearms industry has been around and has been respected for generations. They provide a valuable service and a highly desirable product to millions of sportsmen and supporters of those second amendment rights.

If anything is going to halt necessary investments in next generation networks it will be Congress dictating business models to companies.