I know if I were in your generation I would be really tired of seeing Sophia Loren as a sex object.
There was a gap in minority heroes in animation, books, and storytelling for me as a kid, and being a father now, I felt the responsibility I had to the next generation to create stories that allow us to wish and dream and build worlds that inspire young people who haven’t traditionally had these heroes to look up to.
Each generation’s job is to question what parents accept on faith, to explore possibilities, and adapt the last generation’s system of values for a new age.
I’m speaking for all of us. I’m the spokesman for a generation.
Civil rights happened because youth got involved. The youth stood up and helped to break the pattern that their parents had got accustomed to living. The next generation has to take that stand for whatever it is, socially, that they are involved in.
If you don’t focus on the future generation, it means you are destroying your country.
I’m part of that generation that grew up watching TV, and being an actor was all about being on TV or being in films.
Struggle is a never ending process. Freedom is never really won, you earn it and win it in every generation.
There’s a new generation of entrepreneurs in the Valley who have arrived since 2000, after the dotcom bust. They’re completely fearless.
My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our Cabernet stage.
Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But many in the world lack these luxuries. How do you practice without such tryout venues?
I think these days a lot of the younger generation feels that the world owes them something. But you’ve got to get off your backside and you’ve got to do all the crap stuff, too.
Everybody aspires to an affordable home, a secure job, better living standards, reliable healthcare and a decent pension. My generation took those things for granted, and so should future generations.
I did go to Wellesley, a women’s college. And I am of a kind of strange generation which is transitional in terms of women who wanted to go out and get jobs.
Every generation needs a new revolution.
History has proven that each generation of Howard graduates will forge the way forward for our country and our world.
Folklore used to be passed by word of mouth, from one generation to the next; that’s what makes it folklore, as opposed to, say, history, which is written down and stored in an archive.
There is such a thing as food and such a thing as poison. But the damage done by those who pass off poison as food is far less than that done by those who generation after generation convince people that food is poison.
Our generation, I think, has a demand for authenticity that exceeds any prior generation.
Our generation has taken to the cosmetic use of pesticides and I think, perhaps unwittingly, not fully understanding the dangers it represents to ourselves and, most importantly, to our children.
Every generation has had some sort of focus for their unrest and discomfort with growing up. But today, the music that’s in the charts is probably liked by their parents as well, and I think it’s a part of youth that you need something that isn’t liked or understood by the older generation.
We now consider as fundamental economic functions of the state, many duties that were left a generation ago to chance.
I think that any wealth creates a sense of trusteeship… it is characteristic of the new generation which has created wealth to have some amount of responsibility for it.
We must ensure that today’s seniors’ benefits are rock solid and find a solution that fixes Social Security for the next generation that is just entering the workforce.
In 2005 we have a once in a generation opportunity to deliver a modern Marshall plan for the developing world.
Our generation is the most cinematically saturated of all time. Videotapes, DVD’s, streaming… Spielberg… all of it has thrust us into an endless loop of consumption.
I’m from the Vietnam generation. I didn’t serve.
My idea is always to reach my generation. The wise writer writes for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterward.
Without significant reform, the Social Security Administration will be legally and financially unable to pay full promised benefits within a generation.
The new generation of Labour is different. Different attitudes, different ideas, different ways of doing politics.
Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.
Our highly qualified teachers not only work hard, but they care about each and every student that enters their classroom. I thank you, Montana teachers, for your sense of duty and compassion to our precious future generation.
I’m of the generation that discovered Aerosmith because of Run-DMC. They just looked crazy to me. They were the dudes in the Run-DMC video. That’s who Aerosmith was.
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.
A revolution only lasts fifteen years, a period which coincides with the effectiveness of a generation.
Your generation and mine have had very little real experience; we’ve been severed from the direct experience of war by some very good things. By the end of the draft, and by the defeat in Vietnam.
My parents’ generation’s benchmark was simple: Fat Equals Bad.
We are the first generation of human beings to have substantial insights into the origin of our cosmos and of human life in it.
I was part of it, and I am still part of it today in terms of what it means to a whole new generation of people who are interested in the enduring energy, achievements, spirit and creativity that exemplified our era.
I’ve had a very lucky life because I’m of this generation where everything was possible.
But go on, valiant champion; you die not as a fool, though the apostate, unfaithful, and lukewarm ministers and professors of this generation think and say so.
The President has no real plan to address the fiscal challenges arising from the retirement of the baby boom generation, let alone a plan to fix Social Security.
It’s the same thing now. When I go onstage the young people scream and holler as much as the older generation.
A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.
I want to remind the new generation about the power of old school romance.
