Top 655 Generation Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Generation Quotes from famous people such as Jenny McCarthy, J-Hope, Jon Huntsman, Jr., Jack Steinberger, Sheryl Swoopes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

We can either continue to collectively stand on the sid

We can either continue to collectively stand on the sidelines and debate what is causing autism and if it is an epidemic or we can get on the field and start addressing the real problem – a generation of children with autism. We are not focusing enough on prevention, treatments and support services.
Jenny McCarthy
The music helped me sympathize with our young generation and also empathize with them. I’d like to create and write more music that represents them.
J-Hope
I can’t stomach the thought that we are passing down to the next generation a country that is less viable, less good, less competitive, less compassionate than the one we got.
Jon Huntsman, Jr.
I had no new ideas on the physics we might learn, and I could not compete with the younger generation.
Jack Steinberger
As a result of Title IX, and a new generation of parents who want their daughters to have the opportunities they never had, women’s sports have arrived.
Sheryl Swoopes
Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of it.
John Adams
Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.
Joseph Addison
We owe it to ourselves and to the next generation to conserve the environment so that we can bequeath our children a sustainable world that benefits all.
Wangari Maathai
I’m a huge Groucho fan. There were some great comic minds that would transfer into any generation, and Groucho is certainly one of them.
Joe Rogan
Women will only have true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining.
Ed Miliband
The truth of the matter is, all of those guys on Star Trek: The Next Generation actually want to be me. These impersonations they do are just some way of trying to feel what it must be like to be me. And I understand that! Because it feels really good to be Patrick Stewart!
Patrick Stewart
The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible – and achieve it, generation after generation.
Pearl S. Buck
I’m happy to be a part of this new generation where people don’t care where you come from, what your orientation is, or what your identity is. They just accept you for you.
Josie Totah
I believe that whoever is successful should help ensure that the next generation can be successful, too.
Hasso Plattner
Most of my friends between 21 and 31 are at different stages of figuring out what the hell they are going to do with their lives. It’s a big part of our generation. What is the next step?
Orlando Jones
The greatest generation was formed first by the Great Depression. They shared everything – meals, jobs, clothing.
Tom Brokaw
The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible – and achieve it, generation after generation.
Pearl S. Buck
I think there is a generation gap. I personally look forward to, as our generation becomes the leaders, you are gonna see a change, and I think hopefully gay marriage will be a part of that country.
Vanessa Kerry
Real government is about looking beyond the vested to the national interest, setting up the necessary conditions to enable the next, more enabled and more empowered generation to achieve a country as prosperous, a people as content, as ours deserve to be.
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
Federal funding for biomedical sciences plays a critical role in training the next generation of scientists.
Carol W. Greider
Of course, I’m of the generation that grew up with Hemingway and Faulkner as strong influences.
Italo Calvino
Leadership is not about the next election, it’s about the next generation.
Simon Sinek
I want to work with the teachers’ union. But as I said out there, we have to put the kids first and we are letting down a generation of California children. It’s not acceptable.
Meg Whitman
We can’t expect the world to get better by itself. We have to create something we can leave the next generation.
Gwen Ifill
The young generation has a different curiosity that is more visual.
Jurgen Klinsmann
Democracy is something that you must learn each generation. It has to be taught.
Anthony Kennedy
Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We, of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.
Abraham Lincoln
This generation should entertain this generation. It’s only fair. When I was a kid, I mowed the lawn. Now, somebody else’s kid can mow the lawn.
Tom T. Hall
Each generation has its own rendezvous with the land, for despite our fee titles and claims of ownership, we are all brief tenants on this planet. By choice, or by default, we will carve out a land legacy for our heirs.
Stewart Udall
Struggle is a never ending process. Freedom is never really won, you earn it and win it in every generation.
Coretta Scott King
Every generation gets the Tiny Tim it deserves.

Every generation gets the Tiny Tim it deserves.
Gore Vidal
My generation was the turning point. Women older than us didn’t expect to have jobs or careers; those younger did. But we were where it was changing – which is interesting but uncomfortable.
Jocelyn Bell Burnell
The whole slacker generation totally didn’t apply to us musically.
Dave Grohl
The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind.
James Truslow Adams
Each generation wants new symbols, new people, new names. They want to divorce themselves from their predecessors.
Jim Morrison
What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?
Marcus Tullius Cicero
The first step in securing our cyber future is education, and that means everything from educating individuals to companies to the next generation of IT professionals.
Dan Lipinski
To be appointed as captain of the team of the ICC Champions Trophy 2017, which includes some of the finest and most attractive cricketers of this generation, is the perfect icing on the cake.
Sarfaraz Ahmed
If you watch animals objectively for any length of time, you’re driven to the conclusion that their main aim in life is to pass on their genes to the next generation.
David Attenborough
I feel like we were the last generation, and there’s this big divide before and after the 1990s. I feel sorry for the kids today. It’s all too much.
Chloe Sevigny
It’s a struggle but that’s why we exist, so that another generation of Lesbians of color will not have to invent themselves, or their history, all over again.
Audre Lorde
The younger generation has become very nationalistic, self-confident. Increasingly, they do not see the Congress as their party.
Subramanian Swamy
When it comes to space, I see it as my job, I’m building infrastructure the hard way. I’m using my resources to put in place heavy lifting infrastructure so the next generation of people can have a dynamic, entrepreneurial explosion into space.
Jeff Bezos
My daddy thought – no, he expected – that my brothers and I and our generation would make the world a better place. He was correct in his belief because he had lived in an America of continual social progress, depression followed by prosperity, segregation by integration, and so on.
Wynton Marsalis
I was raised on pork… steak, chicken, everything… And everyone in my family pretty much of the older generation has diabetes, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, cancer.
Mya
There is a human capital crisis in the federal government. Not only are we losing the decades of talent as civil servants retire, we are not doing enough to develop and nurture the next generation of public servants.
Daniel Akaka
When I get my hands on painting materials I don’t give a damn about other people’s painting… every generation must start again afresh.
Maurice de Vlaminck
I think social media has taken over for our generation. It’s a big part of our lives, and it’s kind of sad.
Kendall Jenner
The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records, to absorb its lessons and relate them to its own problems, history, too, would lose its meaning.
George F. Kennan
Gay marriage will be universally accepted in time. But if I may be so bold as to say to gays and lesbians, don’t wait for that time to arrive. Just as my father and his generation did not ‘wait’ for their civil rights, nor should you. The toothpaste ain’t going back in the tube. The tide has turned.
John Ridley
The next generation has always been and will be better than the previous one. If it is not, then the world would not be moving forward.
Kapil Dev
The fact is that ours is the first generation that can look disease and extreme poverty in the eye, look across the ocean to Africa, and say this, and mean it. We do not have to stand for this. A whole continent written off – we do not have to stand for this.
Bono
No member of our generation who wasn’t a Communist or a dropout in the thirties is worth a damn.
Lyndon B. Johnson
The older generation had greater respect for land than science. But we live in an age when science, more than soil, has become the provider of growth and abundance. Living just on the land creates loneliness in an age of globality.
Shimon Peres
It’s American Alternative radio stations that bug me. We’re considered Alternative, but don’t expect us to be played next to Blink 182 and Offspring. We’re hardly of that generation.
Thurston Moore