It is possible to lead astray an entire generation, to strike it blind, to drive it insane, to direct it towards a false goal. Napoleon proved this. – Alexander Herzen
My father volunteered in early 1941, before Pearl Harbor, and became an officer in the U.S. Navy. As I was growing up, he taught me the responsibility of command: A leader is ultimately responsible for every aspect of the welfare of people under his or her care. That was a deeply felt obligation in his generation. – Chesley Sullenberger
For my grandmother’s generation, the big invention was cake mix; for our moms, it was the microwave, and for me, it’s the iPhone. And that’s enabled us to do so many different things more efficiently at home. – Brit Morin
I want to perform and be tested; I want the vibrant energy of the younger generation of directors and actors to rub off on me. – Amitabh Bachchan
The younger generation has embraced Twitter and Facebook massively, and they spend most of their time on there. So if I want to reach new fans or keep in touch with my current, I try to use Twitter and Facebook as much as possible. – Armin van Buuren
I want to reach a new generation. That’s why I am Twittering now. I have a BlackBerry, an iPhone and a Mac. – Buzz Aldrin
The number of people my age, younger now, a whole generation younger, who are fiercely bright, over-educated, under-employed and who are politicised and purposeless really upsets me. It’s soul-destroying. – Benedict Cumberbatch
When you look around right now, Nashville is kind of going through another changing of guard; you’re watching the Martina McBrides and the Faith Hills and all of them that have been the big stars for the last however many years, and the next generation is coming in: Miranda Lambert, Carrie Underwood, those girls. – Callie Khouri
I blessed the Most High, and praised and honored him who lives forever, for his dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom endures from generation to generation. – The Bible Daniel 4:34
The really important victory of the civil rights movement was that it made racism unpopular, whereas a generation ago at the turn of the last century, you had to embrace racism to get elected to anything. – Carol Moseley Braun
I’m focused on the next generation, because I think it’s very hard to break the habit of adults who’ve got salt and sugar addictions and just ways of being in this world. It’s very hard even for the most enlightened people at famous universities that are very wealthy to spend the money that it takes to feed the students something delicious. – Alice Waters
There is good news in the data the strongest support for priests is to be found among the younger generation. – Andrew Greeley
There is a whole generation of people who are going to see movies or watch TV who don’t want to work. – Bill Sienkiewicz
We need to keep making our streets safer and our criminal justice system fairer – our homeland more secure, our world more peaceful and sustainable for the next generation. – Barack Obama
I think the new generation is much more demanding about respect for the environment than we have ever imagined. – Carlos Ghosn
I’m mad keen on recycling because I’m worried about the next generation and where all this waste we’re producing is going. It has to stop. I wash out my plastic containers and recycle envelopes, everything I possibly can. – Cherie Lunghi
There is a rising generation in this country who do not know God because of a general decay of religion. – Arthur Middleton
Each generation doubtless feels called upon to reform the world. Mine knows that it will not reform it, but its task is perhaps even greater. It consists in preventing the world from destroying itself. – Albert Camus
The biggest benefit of Apollo was the inspiration it gave to a growing generation to get into science and aerospace. – Buzz Aldrin
There are a lot of complaints by the older generation about the lack of action in this generation. My retort: give these people something to be engaged in. Cutting a check is not engaging. – Ben Rattray
I look at other members of my generation who have basically done one thing, and one thing well, and have been handsomely rewarded for it. – Billy Corgan
I’ve always said, since I got to know him and wrote about him, that he’s the generation he least appeals to is his own and I think in many ways he was born middle-aged and that’s become apparent in recent years. – Anthony Holden
I’m getting more towards that point where I’m ready to kind of pass the torch on and see the next generation succeed behind me. – Angela Ruggiero