Quotes tagged ‘Generations’

(16 total)

“If you really want to create something that lasts generations, you have to help inspire the next generation.”

“We’re here, we’re here to stay and represent the voice of the people who have been silenced for many decades and generations.”

— Ilhan Omar, jewishinsider.com

“America only cares about what the superstars are up to. The rest of us, from the benches to the bleachers, are left to our own devices. And we can play whatever games we want.”

— Stephanie Georgopulos, medium.com

“Every generation must recognize and embrace the task it is peculiarly designed by history and by providence to perform.”

— Chinua Achebe, amazon.com

“The life of the dead is set in the memory of the living.”

— Cicero, books.google.com

“For thousands of generations we watched the stars as if our lives depended on it, because they did….[O]ur ancestors noticed that the motions of the stars across the nights of the year foretold changes on Earth that threatened or enhanced our chances for survival.”

— Ann Druyan, Steven Soter, Himself - Host, Neil deGrasse Tyson, imdb.com

“Science is a cooperative enterprise spanning the generations. It's the passing of a torch from teacher to student to teacher; a community of minds reaching back to antiquity, and forward to the stars.”

— Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan, Steven Soter, Himself - Host, Neil deGrasse Tyson, imdb.com

“Each generation is smarter than the generation before, and they need total diversion and encouragement and things to think about.”

— Martha Stewart, parents.com

“Dad had one great dream, a dream that had been handed down from generation to generation of male Bundys: to build their own room and live separately from their wives. Sadly, they all failed.”

— Kevin Curran, Al Bundy, Ed O'Neill, imdb.com

“We are linked by blood, and blood is memory without language.”

— Joyce Carol Oates, amazon.com

“News flash: Millennials aren't more narcissistic than other generations. We were all a bit more self-centered at 21”

— Adam Grant, twitter.com

“There's no question that all the generations got excited about the first flights, with Kennedy's inspiration to go to the moon, leaving the planet for the first time, and fortunately coming back.”

— Alan Shepard, en.wikiquote.org

“Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.”

— George Orwell, amazon.com

“It's very strange to me that one of the chief complaints of the older generation, this generation that worked so hard to make life easier for their kids, is that young people these days have it too easy, especially when it's increasingly clear that they don't.”

— Hank Green, youtube.com

“I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of the night.”

— Allen Ginsberg, amazon.com

“I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies: 1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. 2. Anything that's invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting an…”

— Douglas Adams, amazon.com