Generation Quotes

“When a human being becomes a set of data on a website like Facebook, he or she is reduced. Everything shrinks. Individual character. Friendships. Language. Sensibility. In a way it’s a transcendent experience: we lose our bodies, our messy feelings, our desires, our fears.”
― Zadie Smith

“These days, it's better to look poor and be safe, than look rich and be a victim.”
― Anthony Liccione

“A creator is not in advance of his generation but he is the first of his contemporaries to be conscious of what is happening to his generation.”
― Gertrude Stein, Picasso

“We often hear about stepping outside ourselves, but rarely about stepping outside our generation.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“We are the last generation with a real opportunity to save the world.”
― Laurence Overmire, The One Idea That Saves The World: A Call to Conscience and A Call to Action

“My grandfather used to say ‘It is my house I am paying the bills’,
my dad used to say ‘this is my house I pay the mortgage’,
my generation is saying this is my house I pay the rent.”
― Csaba Gabor

“As a sculptor sculpts a statue, an educator educates our future generation. Beauty depends on the creator.”
― Debasish Mridha

“As I looked out at the glittering waters of the Pacific I was seeing for Carl. He knew that it's not for any one generation to see the completed picture. That's the point. The picture is never completed. There is always so much more that remains to be discovered.”
― Ann Druyan

“أنت ترصف شارعا في يوم و تبني بيتا في شهر وتقيم مدينة في سنة .. ولكنك تصلح شعبا في جيل”
― أنيس منصور, الدين والديناميت

“Every new generation believes its own period to be absolutely superior intellectually - greater than all past cultures yet equal among its modern cultures.”
― Criss Jami, Healology

“Material wealth do not last forever, but that which probably lasts forever is the wealth of intelligence and creativity.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

“...returning to nature has been a dream present in the minds of every generation since mankind first left nature.”
― Daniel J. Rice, The UnPeopled Season: Journal from a North Country Wilderness

“Today can be better than the worse of yesterdays, but tomorrow can never replace the best of yesterdays.”
― Anthony Liccione

“The present is only faced in any generation by the artist.”
― Marshall McLuhan

“The most ignorant and wasted youthful generation is the very one that the older generation uses to create social conflicts to their own youthful detriment!”
― Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes

“The late Mr. David Hume, in his posthumous works, places the powers of generation much above those of our boasted reason; and adds, that reason can only make a machine, as a clock or a ship, but the power of generation makes the maker of the machine; ... he concludes, that the world itself might have been generated, rather than created ; that is, it might have been gradually produced from very small beginnings, increasing by the activity of its inherent principles, rather than by a sudden evolution of the whole by the Almighty fiat.”
― Erasmus Darwin

“I cry looking at our reality, through slave eyes. I bet they would say our generation has crossed the line.”
― Delano Johnson, My Lifes Lyrics Encrypted: Hate Me or Love Me (Life Series) [Kindle Edition]

“For me, it’s not just about blessing my generation, I've done that already, I also have to be a father to the fatherless.”
― Onyi Anyado

“Serving my generation with excellence will mean in turn, my generation can lead with excellence.”
― Onyi Anyado

“Dawn's Spawn:

Cause and Effect

Criticizing the next generation reflects on us. We hold the power to carve out good citizens who will take over the planet and wrest control from us. Step up with your hammer and chisel to create a defined character. Give up your cowardly position as friend and brave the battle of good parenting.

Kamil Ali”
― Kamil Ali

“If baking at Zomick's bakery is any labor at all, it's a labor of love. A love that gets passed from one Zomick's generation to the next one.”
― Zomick's Bakery, Zomick's Kosher Challah - Bread Recipes by Zomick's Bakery

“Gen Y's work best in groups, collaboratively, transparently, interactively and entrepreneurially - and have already created positive change in many local communities and around the world.”
― Charlie Caruso, Understanding Y

“Every generation has a plague, so to speak, and that kind of prejudice and discrimination could so easily happen again if we're not mindful and careful.”
― Ryan Murphy Screenwriter

“GENES

G raft of yourself
E endowment
N ew generation
E volution
S urvival

Kamil Ali”
― Kamil Ali, Profound Vers-A-Tales

“The 'Instagram Generation' now experiences the present as an anticipated memory.”
― Daniel Kahneman

“Due to their reluctance to tie
themselves down at a young age, they have the capacity as well
as the predisposition to be their own bosses and following their
own dreams.”
― Bernard Salt

“Once upon a time, there was a generation of parents who were certain that Elvis Presley's unashamed hip-swivellingvwas most certainly the end of society.”
― Charlie Caruso, Understanding Y

“It's my generation's time to shine and blossom. May our ancestors be proud of what we have done and will do. I pray our strength in the Lord.”
― Julius Veal

“and yet we're in the generation where deleting history became more important than creating history.”
― Waasay Uddin

“We are to take the baton of God’s truth and pass it on to the next generation of believers.”
― Jim George, A Man After God's Own Heart: Devoting Your Life to What Really Matters