Generations Quotes - Page 67

The message "Your body isn't good enough" translates in a little girls mind to "YOU aren't good enough." This becomes a core belief that gets passed on to the next generation.

To death we owe our life; the passing of one generation opens a way for another.

Everyone always tells you that you're the only one that can do this or that role right, and if you say no, they go to somebody else and tell them that they're the only one that can do it right. But when they're talking to you, you're always the 'Best Actor of Your Generation.'

I think everybody in my generation, we wanted to be Elvis.

Like lycanthropy, the nerd gene can skip a generation. My maternal grandfather was a technophile.

I think all of us are intrigued to imagine what we as individuals would become, if we were ever tested as hard as that golden generation was.

The family I grew up in had three generations of widows.

The great arbiters of language are the women who speak it in the presence of children... What the women pass on to the next generation is "right" and what they do not bother to pass on to their children sooner or later becomes "wrong.

Civilization could not exist until there was written language, because without written language no generation could bequeath to succeeding generations anything but its simpler findings.

I come from a long line of generations!

A work settles nothing, just as the labor of a whole generation settles nothing. Sons, and the morrow, always start afresh.

The problems that agitate one generation are exstinguished for the next, not because they have been solved but because the general lack of interest sweeps them away.

Generations do not age. Every youth of any period, any civilization, has the same possibilities as always.

Just after the war, the liberation of 1945, [Albert] Camus was well known, well loved by [Jean-Paul ] Sartre and all the intellectuals of that generation.

I guess there was some Casper guy, like, 10 generations ago who I'm named after. I'm the 11th. My son is Casper the XII.

But when I start to kiss someone - lust is the easiest emotion to generate.

I feel like I'm a product of this generation where everybody listens to charts with diverse music.

It is very common with artists who are of a generation that has already gone by to get overly concerned with, Oh my God I have to sell to the younger generation.

This generation I'm a member of, we're sort of infected by this idea that you had to make the world a better place.

The challenge of today's generation of architects is the environment.

We have been through four and five generations of technology since the PATRIOT Act.

I think the new generation is much more demanding about respect for the environment than we have ever imagined.

We don't need to be feminist in my generation.

Ours is the first generation that has grown up with science-fiction ideas.

Everyone of my generation who preached free love is responsible for AIDS.