822 Quotes About Generations

For what's the point of breeding children, if each generation does not improve on what went before.

But why didn't you leave? Why didn't you take my sister and go to New York?" she would say it didn't matter, that she was lucky to have my sister and me. If I pressed hard enough, she would add, "If I'd left, you never would have been born." I never had the courage to say: But you would have been born instead.

Amazed Generation! Found Generation! Diamond Generation! Brainwashed Generation! Amnesiac T.V. Bureaucracy Voidoids!New Wave Punk Generation! Neutron Bomb blast Babies! Apocalypse Spermatozoa!Did you grow up imbibing Microchip sex waters?Will you marry me in the next Millennium?Must I wait for the Great Year?- Listening to Susan Sontag

Thriving leaders are the ones surrounded by diverse people from different generations.

We inherited a strong and flourishing country, and instead of making the investments - that is, the sacrifices - to maintain it, we chose to suck it dry and stick our children with the bill. If you want to see who is to blame for student debt, just look in the mirror. And if parents find themselves supporting kids beyond their college years, that is only, in the aggregate, a form of compensatory justice: the intergenerational transfer of wealth that should have been effected through taxation.

You hold the collective story of all women in your body. The muscle memory of generations past. This is your legacy, but it is not a prediction of your reality or your future. The difference is both delicate and profound and worth exploring. Pull in the wisdom of generations upon generations of witches and wild women and pioneers and mothers and lovers and midwives and subversives. And then forge your own path. The way only you can. You were born for this.

My happiness comes from the donation of my life in many ways for the current and for the future generations.

Genetics became my all-consuming passion. I wanted to create the perfect species. One that doesn’t just live on our planet, but one that makes it better for future generations.

True Leadership is having multiple generations working together successfully and passionately to create significance.