New Generation Quotes - Page 6

• And, it seems like a whole new generation of kids have discovered his genius and are bringing him to life again. I hope that wherever Michael is right now he is smiling about this. Yes, Michael Jackson was a human being but he was a king. Long live the king.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Kings, Kids, Long

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• Amongst democratic nations, each new generation is a new people.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  People, Generations, Democratic

  Alexis de Tocqueville (2016). “Democracy in America”, p.539, Xist Publishing

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• We have to condemn publicly the very idea that some people have the right to repress others... When we neither punish nor reproach evildoers ... we are ripping the foundations of justice from beneath new generations.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Ideas, People, Justice

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• Each and every time, a new generation has risen up and done what’s needed to be done. Today we are called once more — and it is time for our generation to answer that call. For that is our unyielding faith — that in the face of impossible odds, people who love their country can change it.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Odds, Our Generation

  Official Announcement of Candidacy for US President, Delivered 10 February 2007, Springfield, Illinois

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• Modern American literature was born in protest, born in rebellion, born out of the sense of loss and indirection which was imposed upon the new generations out of the realization that the old formal culture-the "New England idea"-could no longer serve.

  Alfred Kazin

  Loss, Ideas, Generations

  Alfred Kazin (2013). “On Native Grounds: An Interpretation Of Modern American Prose Literature”, p.59, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Popular art is normally decried as vulgar by the cultivated people of its time; then it loses favor with its original audience as a new generation grows up; then it begins to merge into the softer lighting of

  Northrop Frye

  Art, Growing Up, People

  Northrop Frye (2015). “Anatomy of Criticism”, p.108, Princeton University Press

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• I think the new generations in America, the America's youth, no longer care about Vietnam. They don't want to hear any more about it.

  Alexander Haig

  Thinking, America, Generations

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• I believe that movies are fast becoming antique and dinosauric as a medium. Film is a medium for the over-40s and television has gone the same way. If you're going to look towards the new generation, then of course you're going to have to be a lot more random, spontaneous, irreverent and provocative with your programming.

  Malcolm Mclaren

  Believe, Generations, Looks

  "Malcolm McLaren on bringing bollocks back to the BBC" by Malcolm McLaren, www.theguardian.com. March 14, 2008.

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• When I was on 'Dallas,' I was known to audiences of the '80s. And then when my sons, who are in their 30s now, were going to college, 'Dallas' was the cult thing to watch because it was being done on the soap channels, so a whole new generation saw it. And then I have the young fans that knew me from 'Step By Step' in the '90s.

  Patrick Duffy

  Son, College, Done

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• The interesting thing writing about [Buckminster] Fuller is really to attempt to resurrect all of that and to do so for a new generation that has not grown up with him.

  Jonathon Keats

  Writing, Interesting, Buckminster Fuller

  Source: therumpus.net

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• And I'm so excited to remind people and even gain new fans who find out about Dharma - a new generation who could find out about Dharma and enjoy her and all the characters on the show.

  Jenna Elfman

  Character, People, Fans

  TV.com Interview, www.tv.com. June 14, 2006.

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• We are watching the beginnings of the defiant self-assertion of a new generation of Americans, a generation who are looking forward to finishing their education with no jobs, no future, but still saddled with enormous and unforgivable debt.

  David Graeber

  Jobs, Self, Finishing

  David Graeber (2013). “The Democracy Project: A History, a Crisis, a Movement”, p.68, Spiegel & Grau

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• I don't give a damn about my reputation. You're living in the past, it's a new generation.

  Joan Jett

  Past, Reality, Giving

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• Every pulse of your heartbeat is one liquid moment that flows through the veins of your being. Like a river of life flowing on since creation, approaching the sea with each new generation.

  Don McLean

  Philosophy, Sea, Rivers

  Song: Tapestry

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• Every American born today owes $43,000 to the federal government the day she or he is born. And we are transferring a tremendous amount of debt to the new generation, much of it owed to overseas creditors who expect to be repaid by our children with interest.

  Mark Kirk

  Children, Government, Generations

  "Meet the Press" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. October 10, 2010.

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• I think that any wealth creates a sense of trusteeship... it is characteristic of the new generation which has created wealth to have some amount of responsibility for it.

  Azim Premji

  Responsibility, Thinking, Generations

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• Every ten years there is a new generation of actors.

  Barbet Schroeder

  Years, Generations, Actors

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• My goal is there's a new generation of cars. And people can say we're living in a new day and age. A new day and age of cars that are beautiful, affordable, safe, and of course every car gets over 100 mpg, why wouldn't it.

  Peter Diamandis

  Beautiful, Car, People

  Interview with Paul Hoffman, bigthink.com. January 26, 2010.

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• A lot of it starts with playing instruments and working with other people. Some of the new generation is doing it on computers and they don't have a clue as to how to play anything. That's probably one of the problems. They don't know how to make the melody, go through the chord changes. They're not starting from that same school of thought.

  Ray Parker, Jr.

  School, Play, People

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• The young readers I have interacted with carry old concerns repackaged in the skin of a new generation: puzzlement over continuous national moral failings, contradictions with the elders, nostalgia for a nonexistent Kenyan past.

  Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

  Past, Skins, Generations

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I wanna be remembered for my hard work that I've done for over 25 years. Winning championships, making money, being a star, all the luxurious things...they don't count. What counts is being able to open up a path for the new generation to come in and continue to innovate and evolve. I'm just very happy to be a pioneer.

  Oscar Gutierrez

  Stars, Hard Work, Winning

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• Every year Swedish society produces a new generation of threatened women who can testify to the lack of legal rights and the lukewarm interest shown by the police and other authorities.

  Steig Larsson

  Rights, Years, Police

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• I think Jesse [Zwick] is part of a new generation of director, because we'd be kidding ourselves if we did not acknowledge that there is this unsaid rule that the hero looks a certain way.

  Nate Parker

  Hero, Thinking, Directors

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• A lot of those old ideas are dying with the people who created them, and there's this new generation of filmmaker that's saying, "We're in this together, these are issues that we all deal with, let's just present issues to screen without bias and figure out what the audience has to say about them."

  Nate Parker

  Ideas, Issues, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There may perhaps be a new generation of doctors horrified by lacerations, infections, women who have douched with kitchen cleanser. What an irony it would be if fanatics continued to kill and yet it was the apathy and silence of the medical profession that most wounded the ability to provide what is, after all, a medical procedure.

  Anna Quindlen

  Doctors, Rights, Medicine

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