Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered.
W. Somerset Maugham

Your generation and mine have had very little real experience; we've been severed from the direct experience of war by some very good things. By the end of the draft, and by the defeat in Vietnam.
Michael Ignatieff

You can take as much as you can from the generation that has preceded you, but then it's up to you to make something new.
Jackson Browne

That's maybe the most important thing each generation does, is to break a lot of rules and make up their own way of doing things.
Jackson Browne

We must consider the distinctive characters and the general nature of plants from the point of view of their morphology , their behavior under external conditions, their mode of generation, and the whole course of their life.
Theophrastus

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.
Al Capp

It's very important for men to look downward, to the next generation.
James Hillman

As a teacher, as a propagandist, Mr. Shaw is no good at all, even in his own generation. But as a personality, he is immortal.
Max Beerbohm

Women will only have true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Who will take responsibility for raising the next generation?
Ruth Bader Ginsburg

I created Punk for this day and age. Do you see Britney walking around wearing ties and singing punk? Hell no. That's what I do. I'm like a Sid Vicious for a new generation.
Avril Lavigne

A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.
Max Planck

A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.
Max Planck

I see the whole concept of Generation X implies that everyone has lost hope.
Alanis Morissette

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked.
Allen Ginsberg

My generation of the Sixties, with all our great ideals, destroyed liberalism, because of our excesses.
Camille Paglia

The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind.
James Truslow Adams

On my US tour maybe three out of 30 shows there was an Elvis impersonator in the crowd but that's it. I usually get younger fans, and those that come that are of an older generation end up walking out because it's too loud.
Lisa Marie Presley

I was surprised by the response of young people because there is a perception that those younger than the 1988 generation are not interested in politics.
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi

Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors.
Emile M. Cioran