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Generation Quotes

There will always be kids in every generation that understand that Lady Gaga is not music, it’s theater.

– Butch Trucks

I wouldn’t say they’re neglected, but everybody is going to grow old and we should be looking after the older generation more than we do at the moment.

– Alan Hansen

We are the first generation of human beings to have substantial insights into the origin of our cosmos and of human life in it.

– Arthur Peacocke

I’m speaking for all of us. I’m the spokesman for a generation.

– Bob Dylan

I give talks to theater arts departments, and I don’t know what I’ll say. I don’t plan a thing. It’s just the energy of these young people. They’re the next generation, and what they have is very representative of how I felt when I was 19 or 20 or so. I’m really happy to be with them.

– Anthony Zerbe

If you allow yourself to be closed, especially to a younger generation, then that’s death. That’s instant death.

– Ali Shaheed Muhammad

I think eventually I want to become a teacher, like my father wanted to be, and hopefully positively influence the next generation.

– Ann Curry

In the old generation, if one kid bought a PlayStation 2 and the other kid bought an Xbox, at his house you played PlayStation, at your house you played Xbox. Now that it’s online, all those early buyers who… you want to play with, they’ve got their reputation online of who they are and how good they are at these games.

– Bill Gates

Even when they are saturated in the sense of the older theory of valence, the elementary atoms still possess sufficient chemical affinity to bind other seemingly also saturated atoms and groups of atoms, under generation of clearly defined atomic bonds.

– Alfred Werner

I wanted to work with Cate Blanchett. She is one of the five greatest movie actresses of her generation.

– Alec Baldwin

In our generation, everybody told us that it’s really important and it’s nice to be able to speak a lot of languages. It’s an art, too. It really impresses me, people who speak, like, seven languages. I admire them so much, so I began with English, and then Spanish and maybe Portuguese.

– Adele Exarchopoulos

I’ve got weird conflicting feelings about my generation.

– Adam Driver

If our country is serious about reducing our dependency on foreign oil, we need to get serious about mobilizing the infrastructure necessary to distribute and dispense the next generation of fuels.

– Bart Gordon

I don’t need a successor, only willing hands to accept the torch for a new generation.

– Billy Graham

One generation after another is drifting away from anything Jewish.

– Ariel Sharon

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

– Carrie Underwood

As the Constitution endures, persons in every generation can invoke its principles in their own search for greater freedom.

– Anthony Kennedy

Hip-hop has had this history where the predecessor just is so harsh and not nice to the next coming generation that it creates this separation and this gap.

– Ali Shaheed Muhammad

There is not that much of a generation gap these days.

– Chris Frantz

Nothing is more singular about this generation than its addiction to music.

– Allan Bloom

For my part, I hold it equally impossible for a small shellfish to be produced without generation as for a whale to have its origin from the mud.

– Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

In fiction, too, after the death of Cooper the main tendency for nearly a generation was away from the conquest of new borders to the closer cultivation, east of the Mississippi, of ground already marked.

– Carl Clinton Van Doren

Our ideals, laws and customs should be based on the proposition that each generation in turn becomes the custodian rather than the absolute owner of our resources – and each generation has the obligation to pass this inheritance on in the future.

– Alberto Moravia

A whole generation of young whites have involved themselves with traditional Negro music.

– Archie Shepp

The guys who won World War II and that whole generation have disappeared, and now we have a bunch of teenage twits.

– Clint Eastwood

Sometimes, a remix is good because it reaches a whole new generation. But when it gets too much, it’s irritating. Also, the original composer needs to be credited properly.

– A. R. Rahman

Today’s younger generation is no worse than my own. We were just as ignorant and repulsive as they are, but nobody listened to us.

– Al Capp

The previous generation paved the way for my generation to gallop unheeded into jobs previously reserved for men.

– Beeban Kidron

I think that writing texts, publishing texts, selling texts in a physical book store is one of the important tools for breeding this new generation.

– Alexander Mamut

We will be remembered only if we give to our younger generation a prosperous and safe India, resulting out of economic prosperity coupled with civilizational heritage.

– A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

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