822 Quotes About Generations

I saw the best minds of my generation who threw their watches off the roof to cast their ballot for Eternity outside of Time, & alarm clocks fell on their heads every day for the next decade.

Great authors are admirable in this respect: in every generation they make for disagreement. Through them we become aware of our differences.

I'm sure there were plenty of loving, attentive mothers in the 'me generation,' but none of them lived at my house.

what are the top 20 universities in the world that do good materials research that might create carbon fibers to do jet stream kites or new magnets that will allow [energy] generation to be done up there and you just bring the electricity down. You either have to bring down rotational energy, which is hard, or you have to have the generator up there and bring down the electricity. Well, putting the generator up there is hard to do because it's too heavy.

It's sometimes comical to hear the younger generation ask their peers to repeat themselves.

A lot of people from my generation of music are so focused on playing things correctly or to perfection that they're stuck in that safe place.

The whole slacker generation totally didn't apply to us musically.

We are watching the beginnings of the defiant self-assertion of a new generation of Americans, a generation who are looking forward to finishing their education with no jobs, no future, but still saddled with enormous and unforgivable debt.

I'm interested in themes that endure from generation to generation.