822 Quotes About Generations

I get to be one of the torch-bearers for a new generation.

Each generation must assume the responsibility of securing their manhood, their womanhood, the definition of their being on earth that in the final analysis is nationhood.

Of all things I find most unbearable is the injustice of one generation to another.

In the end, the American dream is not a sprint, or even a marathon, but a relay. Our families don't always cross the finish line in the span of one generation. But each generation passes on to the next the fruits of their labor.

I want to be one of those people, be they writers, poets, musicians, who leaves clues for the next generation. The really good people leave clues that help feed the human race. That's my aspiration.

I feel like as a generation, we sell ourselves short. I just expected more from us.

There's no concession to the fact that Dylan might be a more sophisticated singer than Whitney Houston, that he's probably the most sophisticated singer we've had in a generation. Nobody is identifying our popular singers like a Matisse or Picasso. Dylan's a Picasso - that exuberance, range, and assimilation of the whole history of music.

Every generation loses the Messiah it has failed to deserve.

Women gain social influence through their roles as mothers, transmitters of culture, and parents for the next generation.