Generation Quotes

My friends and I took songwriting very, very seriously. My hero was and still is Bob Dylan, but also people like Leonard Cohen and Joni Mitchell and that whole generation.

To some generations much is given. Of other generations, much is expected.

We need to awaken the next generation to understand that we are all change-makers. The nation is not as strong as its government but its next generation

There is no generation from an egg in the Mineral Kingdom. Hence no vascular circulation of the humours as in the remaining Natural Kingdoms.

We have a planetary emergency. We have to find a way to create, in the generation of those alive today, a sense of generational mission.

The sea – this truth must be confessed – has no generosity. No display of manly qualities – courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness – has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power.

The public school system doesn’t get everybody. Every generation has its rebels.

There’s no democratic state that’s not compromised to the very core by its part in generating human misery.

Your willingness to take action on a single day of voting will birth results that effect generations to come.

It is one of the more striking generalizations of biochemistry – which surprisingly is hardly ever mentioned in the biochemical textbooks – that the twenty amino acids and the four bases, are, with minor reservations, the same throughout Nature.