The awakening of the people of China to the possibilities under free government is the most significant, if not the most momentous, event of our generation. – Woodrow Wilson
How should we begin to make amends for raising a generation obsessed with the pursuit of material wealth and indifferent to so much else? – Tony Judt
We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority, to bind themselves, but none to bind the succeeding generation, more than the inhabitants of another country. – Thomas Jefferson
I think it is so great right now that we are in an age where there’s an African American president in office. I think it is important for our generation to really witness that. – Sufe Bradshaw
The most enduring legacy of President Barack Obama is going to be a new generation of leaders standing up for liberty. – Ted Cruz
The truth of it is that every singer out there with songs on the radio is raising the next generation, so make your words count. – Taylor Swift
The image of Russian troops pouring into Ukraine and encircling military units in Crimea has been a wake-up call that will reverberate for a generation. – Victor Ponta
I do tend to look back to my parents generation and think wow! what a great way to be, to live with one person for a lifetime, to bring your kids up in these really solid families. – Tony Parsons
What has gone catastrophically wrong in England and the States is that for 30 years we’ve lost the ability to talk about the state in positive terms. We’ve raised a generation or two of young people who don’t think to ask, ‘What can the state do that is good?’ – Tony Judt
Every generation tries to put its doctrine on a high shelf where the children can not reach it. – Walter Rauschenbusch
I’m not saying that more performance wouldn’t be better – all these technologies are going to get better – that’s the difference between first generation and second generation. – Trip Hawkins
‘Niggy Tardust’ is the voice of a generation, a generation that does not define itself simply by what it’s born into. – Saul Williams
Gadgets are usually the last thing I think about, and if there’s something new, I’ll get to the store for the final shipment of the first generation when it’s on sale. So I have last year’s stuff. – William Gibson
Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late. – Thomas Sowell
The response to ‘The Greatest Generation’ and the books that followed has been one of the most satisfying experiences of my life. – Tom Brokaw
He had a massive stroke. He died with his tie on. Do you think that could be our generation’s equivalent of that old saying about dying with your boots on? – Stephen King
A characteristic of older folksongs, in most cases, is that we don’t know their composers or authors. Older folksongs were written often with no commercial purpose in mind. They were passed down by word of mouth, from generation to generation. – Tom Glazer
I don’t think France is a racist country, I really don’t, but we do still have many problems with our immigrant past, and there’s a shame that goes with that, that works both ways, in the host and in the post-immigrant generation. – Vincent Cassel
The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap. – Spiro T. Agnew
I’m trying to encourage my children’s generation and the other ones coming to return to basic American principles. – Stewart Udall
Younger audiences are into me because I did ‘Stuart Little,’ and that movie was a very big deal for kids. And in ‘Angels in the Outfield,’ a generation of kids learned about magic and angels. And then, of course, there are these two blond girls named Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, and I played their nanny on their TV show. – Taylor Negron
I was so upset with what was going on in the world. I just couldn’t stand the idea of being people tortured and that we even had such a thing as war. I hated the older generation, who had not done anything about it. Punk was a call-to-arms for me. – Vivienne Westwood
The current distribution model for movies, in the U.S. particularly, but also around the world, is pretty antiquated relative to the on-demand generation that we’re trying to serve. – Ted Sarandos
The first generation of Russian terrorists came out of the ’60s counterculture – the 1860s in Russia bearing a striking similarity to the 1960s in the United States, with Russian students growing their hair, following gurus who extolled the ‘new man,’ and starting communes. – Tom Reiss
