Generations Quotes - Page 40

I think some of that hopelessness of my generation got passed on to later generations - the sense of uselessness.

Marginal tax rates are the lowest they've been in generations, and all we can talk about is tax cuts.

Eccentricity, to be socially acceptable, had still to have at least four or five generations of inbreeding behind it.

I am proud of the hip hop generation. They are good business people and, actually, good people.

I think my generation is a lost generation in a way.

I'm showing the younger generation your career doesn't have to be over when you're 16-years-old.

I feel like your generation is like, "We deserve a place at this table, we have a right to be here," whereas when I was in my 20s I was like, "Who am I?" It's exciting because I do see a lot of young women feeling empowered.

I want to be the greatest investigative reporter of my generation.

Now that the generation that grew up on '80s indie-rock has attained influential positions in the culture, that music is the new yardstick. And that will shift yet again some day.

Generation Z, they cleaned up their own mess.

Do we all become garrulous and confidential as we approach the gates of old age? Is it that we instinctively feel, and cannot help asserting, our one advantage over the younger generation, which has so many over us? - the one advantage of time!

The welfare state has bred a generation of obnoxious, drug-addled criminals and ne'er-do-wells. It has also, incidentally, burdened what was once the world's biggest, most dynamic economy with the dead weight of an obstructive and vastly expensive state machine.

Daniel Johnston is the purist and most unpretentious artist of our generation

I became the voice of a generation in a very surprising way, because many Iranians recognize themselves in it. But that is not what I wanted.

there are now no elders who know more than the young themselves about what the young are experiencing.

The generation of seeds ... is therefore marvelous and analogous to the other productions of living things. For first of all an umbilicus appears. ... Its extremity gradually expands and after gathering a colliquamentous ichor becomes analogous to an amnion. ... In the course of time the seed or fetus begins to become visible.

It definitely wasn't like, 'Hey, I'm going to steal that, and nobody's going to know.' The original 'T.R.O.Y.' came out in 1992, and it was like a 20th anniversary kind of thing. All of those intentions were there for it to be resurrecting a classic for a new generation. I tried to honor it.

I received a beautiful welcome to the world of music. I want to give something back to the younger generation.

The old know what they want; the young are sad and bewildered.

I never go with something in mind. I like having an array of generations in my outfits!

Our generation must fulfill the most noble of duties by ensuring the survival of future generations through the most basic of survival mechanisms - adaptation.

The key reason why we are richer than our ancestors is that these ancestors have bequeathed us buildings, factories and machines that have given us a high living standard to start with. Driven by irresponsible policy makers, America's present generation is consuming the nation's capital.

The World is not ours to keep. We hold it in trust for future generations.

I feel like as a generation, we sell ourselves short. I just expected more from us.

'A Princess of Mars' may not have exerted the same colossal pull that Tarzan had on the global imagination, but its influence on generations of readers cannot be underestimated.