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Each generation is trusted with protecting our open spaces and natural resources to pass them on to future Americans to enjoy.
An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.
We think it is complicated to change the world. Change comes little by little. Nothing worthwhile can happen in one generation.
My generation is so tied up in television, computers, and video games. When we were born, MTV was already there. It was normal.
I live for opening doors for the young generation of creators. If we do nothing else with our success, let's open up some doors.
I don't subscribe to the view that talent is deteriorating. I think every generation is brighter than their previous generation.
The truth of it is that every singer out there with songs on the radio is raising the next generation, so make your words count.
It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous.
I grew up in a physical world, and I speak English. The next generation is growing up in a digital world, and they speak social.
I have come to the conclusion that none of us in our generation feels as guilty about sin as we should or as our forefathers did.
I remember the 1940s as a time when we were united in a way known only to that generation. We belonged to a common cause-the war.
Today's younger generation is no worse than my own. We were just as ignorant and repulsive as they are, but nobody listened to us.
I am of the bridge generation that remembers life before social media permeated everything but cannot imagine life without it now.
We need fuel diversity as far as the generation of electricity because you can only get so much natural gas through the pipelines.
For a nation, the choices that determine whether income doubles in one generation or two dwarf all other economic policy concerns.
You know, I started doing movies. I mean, my mind was brought into saying, 'You know what? I want to build a generation of wealth.'
We want our legacy to stand upon the youth. We want to give knowledge to the younger generation and be a part of changing the game.
Unfortunately, a lot of the mainstream media television is so fake, so plastic, that it's really turned off the younger generation.
All these people that want to make me out as part of Generation X had better watch out, or they're going to get X'd out themselves.
Every generation of rock musician will understand that we wouldn't be anywhere without the support of teenagers buying the records.
I think eventually I want to become a teacher, like my father wanted to be, and hopefully positively influence the next generation.
The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generation.
We were second-generation immigrants, and it was luxury enough to go to college. The luxury of the arts was still a generation away.
We have to understand what the older generation has dealt to us, what mess they have created that we have to clean up and live with.
As one of the grammar-school generation, I grew up as part of a postwar meritocracy that steadily infiltrated the citadels of power.
We are a generation of settlers, and without the steel helmet and gun barrel, we shall not be able to plant a tree or build a house.
Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.
Each generation should be made to bear the burden of its own wars, instead of carrying them on, at the expense of other generations.
There is an entire generation of young people who know nothing about how viciously the FBI attacked The Black Panther Party, and why.
History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.
People should know that the idea of legal fakes is a complete farce. It would be sad if a new generation thinks that's actually legit.
The first generation of CDs sounded terrible. Any chance to remaster would make the music sound better than what was already out there.
Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of it.
My generation has to deal with how to overcome a trauma, how to overcome destruction, and how to tell the truth to the next generation.
There's so much talk about the Drug Generation and songs about drugs. That's stupid. They aren't songs about drugs; they're about life.
I want people in their 20s to think of 'Swing' the way a generation in the 1960s thought of 'Esquire' - as the voice of young thinkers.
I think one of the nicest things that we created as a generation was just the fact that we could say, 'Hey, I don't like white people.'
Our fathers had their dreams; we have ours; the generation that follows will have its own. Without dreams and phantoms man cannot exist.
When I get my hands on painting materials I don't give a damn about other people's painting... every generation must start again afresh.
The 'Next Generation' and 'Voyager' are about even; I think 'Voyager' is mildly superior, although Picard is the quintessential captain.
I'm a huge Groucho fan. There were some great comic minds that would transfer into any generation, and Groucho is certainly one of them.
I wish to share and pass down some of my generation's traits, and encourage young people to create their own art, music, and literature.
There's a new generation of entrepreneurs in the Valley who have arrived since 2000, after the dotcom bust. They're completely fearless.
Like Moscow, I wish to lay the foundation of the Chinese Republic deeply in the minds of the young generation - the workers of tomorrow.
Queen Latifah was writing poetry. Maybe Latifah's 'Ladies First' and Angelou's 'Phenomenal Woman' are the same thing, a generation apart.
Most of the good people of my generation... had offers to become editors, but the thought of going inside was just absolutely horrifying.
I always think about the next generation and creating a different blueprint for them. That's my goal: to let them know there's another way.
Is it possible to covet a much longer life for one's self and be as devoted to the well-being of the next generation? It's a long argument.
More and more - especially the younger generation - are functioning outside the binary concept of gender. That's just next-generation stuff.