822 Quotes About Generations

Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., in a mordant protest written soon after the [1952] election, found the intellectual "in a situation he has not known for a generation." After twenty years of Democratic rule, during which the intellectual had been in the main understood and respected, business had come back into power, bringing with it "the vulgarization which has been the almost invariable consequence of business supremacy.

We must not allow this generation to produce record numbers for the juvenile justice, runaway and homeless youth, or foster care systems.

My generation was somewhat between things, neither free nor much supported by whatever held us in.

Everybody makes money when times are good. It's when times are not so good that the groundwork is laid for the next generation.

Many South Africans qualify for working visas in the UK and are keen to experience working and living overseas. However, more and more young people are rebelling against the materialistic 'me' generation and are keen to find meaningful work during their stay.

The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability. Our business in every generation is to reclaim a little more land, to add something to the extent and the solidity of our possessions.

It was quite a European war until 1917, when the Americans joined up. They don't have the same sense of the loss of innocence and the cataclysmic loss of life. A whole generation was wiped out.

With our next generation hardware, polygon rendering will probably be an area we'll get more heavily into.

A generation of children has been betrayed.