The Greatest Generation got to save old tires, dig a Victory Garden and forgo sugar. The Richest Generation is being asked to shop.
For me, it’s not just about blessing my generation, I've done that already, I also have to be a father to the fatherless.
We must give more in order to get more. It is the generous giving of ourselves that produces the generous harvest.
The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generation.
It is pure illusion to think that an opinion that passes down from century to century, from generation to generation, may not be entirely false.
Each poem in becoming generates the laws by which it is generated: extensions of the laws to other poems never completely take.
We see a new generation of Russian authors who are not divided from their Western contemporaries either culturally or philosophically.
There is a widening gap between the middle-aged-to-older generation, who still read newspapers and watch CCTV news, and the Internet generation.
I think there are very few people, in my generation at least, that are that passionate about what they do.
The general who wins the battle makes many calculations in his temple before the battle is fought. The general who loses makes but few calculations beforehand.
This generation should entertain this generation. It's only fair. When I was a kid, I mowed the lawn. Now, somebody else's kid can mow the lawn.
I am Warhol. I am the No. 1 most impactful artist of our generation. I am Shakespeare in the flesh.
There's a new generation of entrepreneurs in the Valley who have arrived since 2000, after the dotcom bust. They're completely fearless.
Wars don't happen on battlefields; they go on happening in people's hearts for generations and generations, and the ecological damage is unfathomably complex and dire.
Led Zeppelin has been there through three generations of teenage angst. And there's a generation of kids now who won't know it, post-Linkin Park.
It would have been more obvious to go into film, based on the generation before me, but the generation before them were all composers or classical musicians.
Because the truth is, today's immigrants, as they have for generation after generation, work the longest hours at the hardest jobs for the lowest pay, jobs that are just about impossible to fill.
The schools would fail through their silence, the Church through its forgiveness, and the home through the denial and silence of the parents. The new generation has to hear what the older generation refuses to tell it.
People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.
There is a possibility of fresh talent coming to work for the government. Millennials are the most public-spirited generation since the 1960s. There is an opportunity to harness that generation and make government service cool again.
In my generation, history was taught in terms of grand figures, men on whom the destiny of the nation hinged, quintessential heroes.
