Generations Quotes - Page 42

If you want to relate to a certain audience or generation, you have to speak their language. I truly believe that.

Those who would sacrifice a generation to realize an ideal are the enemies of mankind.

This packrat has learned that what the next generation will value most is not what we owned, but the evidence of who we were and the tales of how we loved. In the end, it's the family stories that are worth the storage.

The modern minds in each generation are the critics who preserve us from a petrifying world, who will not leave us to walk undisturbed in the ways of our fathers.

I don't think radio has to be sectioned off where you listen to the music for your generation and your son listens to the music for his generation.

There we were all in one place, a generation lost in space.

Every generation thinks their music is the ultimate. But there's great stuff from every generation.

Once the fabric of a just society is undone, it takes generations to weave it back together.

My parents always went to rallies and demonstrated against certain things; my generation, we often have a political conscience, but we're not that involved.

In every generation there are voices that question the authority of Scripture. So in one sense this is merely part of the continuing stream. But there's a sense in which the questions that are raised against Scripture vary a wee bit from generation to generation.

I don't blame younger generations for their lack of awareness. Americans in general are not interested in history.

Musical theater must adapt to the fact that music is done by people. The new generation will do something different. That is great! That is good.

Whatever comes next for this generation, that's going to be the greatest voice.

Antonio Bolivar Salvador has an incredible story because he's one of the last Ocaina people left. The Ocaina people are - and the Ocaina language is basically about to disappear in this generation. You know, there are very few people that speak it. And he's one of them.

What you see at fight club is a generation of men raised by women.

It doesn't hurt to look 75 to 100 years out, That's a gift to future generations.

As a generation, Generation X or whatever we were called, we were not being nurtured. We didn't have Obama. We didn't have Bill Clinton. We didn't have any politicians that you could look up to, nor did we have parents.

I do enjoy them. I get to meet the next generation of comics and help them out. Big comics doing small shows was something that used to happen a lot more back in the day. I wish there was more of that.

A transplanted Irishman, German, Englishman is an American in one generation. A transplanted African is not one in five!

I think that any wealth creates a sense of trusteeship... it is characteristic of the new generation which has created wealth to have some amount of responsibility for it.

Now, the vicissitudes that afflict the individual have their source in society. It is this situation that has given currency to the phrase social forces. Personal relations have given way to impersonal ones. The Great Society has arrived and the task of our generation is to bring it under control. The study of how it is to be done is the function of politics.

Enduring fame is promised only to those writers who can offer to successive generations a substance constantly renewed; for every generation arrives upon the scene with its own particular hunger.

My father comes from a generation of film that actors my age don't even know about, which is really sad.

The young readers I have interacted with carry old concerns repackaged in the skin of a new generation: puzzlement over continuous national moral failings, contradictions with the elders, nostalgia for a nonexistent Kenyan past.

You have to find a way to not become bitter and live within the parameters of the situation and laugh your way through it…and you hope for a better day for the next generation.