Generations Quotes - Page 51

Our basic fundamental desires are overly stimulated. A friend of mine said, "you have a generation of people that have been accidentally marketed to."

Every generation thinks the cultural rot during their time is worse than it's ever been. That's not true.

The public school system doesn't get everybody. Every generation has its rebels.

Rock is young music, it is youth oriented. It just speaks for a generation.

My generation never experienced (fortunately) that type of collective tragedy, where everybody goes totally crazy and turns the world into a gigantic nightmare.

We may be the generation that sees Armageddon.

You know, it was only a generation ago that actors couldn't be buried in the churchyard.

We're not cognitively equipped to deal with it. And it's becoming a problem, frankly. It's part of the reason why I quit Facebook. We all hear these things and read reports about how our attention spans are shrinking. It makes me wonder about the generation growing up now, how it will affect their brain development.

Nobody can be rich and stupid for more than one generation.

You went to Woodstock and all that trash, your generation is fading fast.

William Dalrymple has superseded Mark Tully as the voice of India… He may well be the greatest travel writer of his generation.

What is perceptible to one’s mistrust is the cut-and-dried way that life is divided up and the ready-made form it assumes, the ever-recurring sameness of it, the pre-formations passed down by generation after generation, the ready-made language not only of the tongue but also of the sensations and the feelings.

The generations that were exposed to sitcom have the people actually saying the line, saying the joke, whereas sort of before that you have much more observational humor.

When different generations of cars are combined into one train, it messes with the loudspeaker system.

Everybody's not going to like jazz, let's just be honest about it. Everybody doesn't like everything. There's a disconnect in generations and some people just aren't going to feel that music.

I think paranoia goes from generation to generation. It's convenient to imagine that there's a few people controlling everything, that way it's manageable and small. But that's not life, life is messy.

Some ways of naming a generation are fruitful and some are not. Postmodernism is not. It doesn't really say anything.

Generations pass while some tree stands, and old families last not three oaks.

So many people of my generation all grew up with that shock theater package on television of 'Frankenstein,' 'Wolfman,' 'Dracula,' 'Mummy,' all the Universal stuff.

To me, the failure of liberalism - the tradition I come from - was not recognizing there has to be justice across the generations.

We have been maintaining a standard of living by putting things on the debt of the next generation.

The World War II generation believed the United States could do anything - anything... And Vietnam was a shattering experience for everyone.

Let's give some substance to patriotism. It may take a generation.

The history of science has been one long series of violent brainstorms, as successive generations have come to terms with increasing levels of queerness in the universe.

If God wanted to forgive our sins, why not just forgive them, without having himself tortured and executed in payment-thereby, incidentally, condemning remote future generations of Jews to pogroms and persecution as 'Christ-killers': did that hereditary sin pass down in the semen too?