Generations Quotes - Page 57

It is clear that our society can improve only if the next generation is given the chance, through loving and intelligent education, to be better developed than the present one.

To a new generation of butterflies, hopefully less stupid than last. Maybe they were burgeoning even now in fat little cocoons. Or maybe not.

But the history of the changes produced by a universal idea is not a history of changes in the individual, but of changes brought about by the successive efforts of millions of individuals in the course of many generations.

This is what happens under capitalism - as long as corporations and the super rich own the economy and the politicians, every new generation has to fight hard just to defend itself.

Tony Blair is a very able politician; he's perhaps one of the best of his generation. He made a major contribution in many areas, but in Iraq I believe he got it wrong. He got it wrong.

One has to learn from history. Quite frankly, it is almost impossible to have a sense of vision without a sense of history. If history is learned, then it doesn't have to repeat itself over generations.

I have had much to learn from Sweden's poetry and, more especially, from her lyrics of the last generation.

I want to bring theatre to a new generation, using the tools available to us, including taking it out to them on film and with new technology, but that is just so they can discover theatre. I want them to come in and sit in a theatre. This is the way to plant seeds.

If you have done well in whatever business you are in, it is your duty to send the elevator back down and try to help bring up the next generation of undiscovered talent.

This younger generation that's around, that's tweeting, Facebooking and Vine-ing, the fans appreciate that because they feel like they can get to you.

I think my generation has grown up knowing that you don't pay attention to trolls because trollin's what they do.

We know that the next several generations need a better world to live in, which can only be a post-Obama World.

Everyone with the new generation is about the social network and YouTube, so if you put a proper version of what it should ideally be, I think it's great. All the stuff on YouTube is there as a back-up! I think that's the way it should be.

It is hard to compare over generations. I think a lot of the top talent is choosing other fields. We look pretty hard - we put a lot of time and effort into finding talent.

My dad was a doctor and surgeon. He was the fifth generation of his family to become a doctor.

A man may be made in one generation, but a lady never!

I suppose my biggest concern would be if the planet is going to be in good enough shape for the next generation to have the privileges that we've had.

What I learned in my time isn't necessarily being taught now, and I'd like to help impart that knowledge to a new generation of players.

The first novel that I wrote was because I was having very interesting sorts of experiences, for Indians of my generation.

I was in that generation where I was torn if you should put it on the web because you're giving it away for free but you also want people to see your work.

I think with each generation comes more opportunity. At least that's the way that I see it. I grew up in a generation that watched the birth of the internet. We all have. But I feel like I look around at the generation younger than me and it's a very opportunistic mantra.

Passion has been in my DNA for generations.

The generation of women who came before us did much of our shouting. They laid the groundwork and now we can be calm and constant and steady.

There are generations of people who have never seen a big plate painting in person. And they don't know what the hell they look like, they don't know what it feels like to stand in a room with them.

There is the expectation that a younger generation has the opportunity to redeem the crimes and failings of their elders and would have the strength and idealism to do so.