Generations Quotes - Page 45

The mind of a generation is its speech. A writer makes aspects of that speech enduring by putting them in print. He whittles at the words and phrases of today and makes of them forms to set the mind of tomorrow's generation. That's history. A writer who writes straight is the architect of history.

Together, we can make a U.S. Department of Peace into a reality, and leave a gift of peace for generations to come.

I'm trying to bring a new generation into the musical theater and to create a new audience.

If $85 million is not enough to take care of my family and other generations of my family, then you’re stupid.

If being a spokesman for a generation is a fleeting occupation, being a symbol of an era is downright dangerous for anyone who has the bad luck to outlive it.

Fairytales are stories that span every generation and they've been around for a long time.

Anyone of my generation who tells you he hasn't 'done Brando' is lying.

David Cronenberg is the most provocative, original, and consistently excellent North American director of his generation.

I am not sure that you, the younger generations, will like to go to war that we went through. So, we learn as the mistakes are being committed.

We should, if possible, prove a teacher to posterity, instead of being the pupil of by-gone generations. More shall come after us than have gone before; the world is not yet middle-aged.

The thing that's been exciting about 'Superman' is to see how the character has developed through generations.

Every generation has its own Goran. So I was the Goran of this generation.

We live in freedom because every generation has produced patriots willing to serve a cause greater than themselves. Those who serve today are taking their rightful place among the greatest generations that have worn our nation's uniform.

American foreign policy must be more than the management of crisis. It must have a great and guiding goal: to turn this time of American influence into generations of democratic peace.

I felt bad for that world that we have given a generation of kids.

The knowledge of one generation is the ignorance of the next.

It is important to make the best out of every generation.

Perhaps every generation thinks of itself as a lost generation and perhaps every generation is right.

Once your children are grown up and have children of their own, the problems are theirs and the less the older generation interferes the better.

Your face encompasses the beauty of the whole earth. Your lips, as red as ripening fruit, gently part as if in pain. It is the smile of a corpse. Now the hand of death touches life. The chain is forged that links the thousand families that are dead to the thousand generations to come.

Hardship is vanishing, but so is style, and the two are more closely connected than the present generation supposes.

For she was of that generation who, having found nothing in religion, had formed themselves through literature.

Viola [Davis] is one of the great actors of her generation. She has one of these moments in the theater that I don't even know how to describe.

To be an artist of my generation willing to be unhip -artists were supposed to be like cowboys.

I believe that we are the generation that will rise and fulfill the Great Commission. But if we don't; some generation will. God has decreed it!