Generations Quotes - Page 48

We learned some bad things, and the Vietnam War led to some bad conclusions. We're not the greatest generation, that's for sure.

Certainly he is not of the generation that regards honesty as the best policy. However, he does regard it as a policy.

But the point is to get a whole new generation of people and people in general more re-engaged in news, and this has happened a lot since September 11th of course.

Bill Proxmire represents almost the last of one of America's most remarkable generations.

Each generation seems to invent its own reasons for war.

I don't want this music to die.The older people are passing it on to the younger generation so the younger generation can pass it on to the next generation.

Within one generation, Los Angeles will be uninhabitable if people don’t do something about it. The world is going to get smaller and be uninhabitable and impossible to live in.

We don't know what's happened out there since they put us in here, or how many generations have lived and died since they did.We could be the last people left.

I'm excited about our rising generation.

I'm the first one in my family born with all my rights. I'm a ninth generation American.

I've kind of touched on the youth generation, what the concept of fame, what does it actually, really mean.

George Carlin is an influence on a generation. He made me want to do comedy.

The perception is that -- and I know many of us have heard this anecdotally -- many third and fourth generations of IU families are opting not to go to here because they perceive the quality of IU is going down.

It was quite a European war until 1917, when the Americans joined up. They don't have the same sense of the loss of innocence and the cataclysmic loss of life. A whole generation was wiped out.

I support exemptions from the estate tax to ensure that when Maine farm owners die, their families will be able to continue to farm the land that they have protected and lived on, often for generations.

I don't know anything more piggish - I don't know anything more un-American than saying, 'Oh, I'm worried about my own little handout or my own little program or my own little economy and we'll kick this can down the road and let some future generation deal with it.

Every generation that comes from this family has to do better than the last.

I look at Lil Wayne as being from my generation.

Can we somehow muster the courage and steadfastness of purpose that characterized the pioneers of a former generation? Can you and I, in actual fact, be pioneers [today]?

Every age and generation must be as free to act for itself.

If the present generation, or any other, are disposed to be slaves, it does not lessen the right of the succeeding generation to be free: wrongs cannot have a legal descent.

The greatest discovery of my generation is that we are unique. The greatest discovery of the next generation, I pray, is that we are one.

One generation cannot bind another.

I am increasingly persuaded that the earth belongs exclusively to the living and that one generation has no more right to bind another to it's laws and judgments than one independent nation has the right to command another.

I have overlived the generation with which mutual labors & perils begat mutual confidence and influence.