Where can we find greater structural clarity than in the wooden buildings of the old. Where else can we find such unity of material, construction and form Here the wisdom of whole generations is stored. What feelings for material and what power of expression there is in these buildings What warmth and beauty they have They seem to be echoes of old songs.
Generation Quotes (1251 Quotes)
Every teen retailer has cynical shirts because it's a generation whose values are almost completely cynical, ... They're so clued into marketing and the wired world that they look at things with a more jaundiced eye than their parents.
It's definitely getting a worldwide audience for this rivalry and that's only because now we're able to step up and play at the level that Mexico has been playing at for generations,
Despite its enormous power and wealth, China's ruling elite remains absolutely petrified that the free flow of information will undermine its political legitimacy, particularly among China's younger generation.
Society is indeed a contract. It is a partnership in all science a partnership in all art a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection. As the ends of such a partnership cannot be obtained in many generations, it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.
Not only do I work here, I live here. I have a very personal interest in how the community develops. I want it to grow into what I want to pass on to the next generation.
There's a lot of gas in storage on the East Coast (after a mild winter). But electric generation does have an impact.
We have found that our audience range in age from teenager and even younger sometimes, children that are brought by their parents, to the older generation. I am particularly encouraged by how many young people are coming to the concerts and who often travel great distances to be there.
I want to make way for a younger generation, ... I will no longer hold any post in the party's parliamentary group.
We really want to help the veterans who will not get there otherwise. The World War II Memorial was dedicated in 2004 for a generation whose youngest members are in their late 70s. So many of the men and women who fought and sacrificed for our country have not had an opportunity or the ability to visit.
There is not that much of a generation gap these days.
Numbers written on restaurant bills within the confines of restaurants do not follow the same mathematical laws as numbers written on any other pieces of paper in any other parts of the Universe. This single statement took the scientific world by storm. It completely revolutionized it. So many mathematical conferences got held in such good restaurants that many of the finest minds of a generation died of obesity and heart failure and the science of math was put back by years.
It does not have to be that the greatest generation is behind us. It does not have to be that our children will have a lower standard of living. It will be that way if we choose to believe that. I choose not to believe that.
Games for the next generation.
The image of manufacturing is unattractive to younger generations. In the past you expected people who needed a job to feed their family would show up, and you would have plenty of people to select from. It's not so anymore.
For generations, America has served as a beacon of hope and freedom for those outside her borders, and as a land of limitless opportunity for those risking everything to seek a better life. Their talents and contributions have continued to enrich our country.
We in this country, in this generation, are--by destiny rather than choice--the watchmen on the walls of world freedom. We ask, therefore, that we may be worthy of our power and responsibility, that we may exercise our strength with wisdom and restraint, and that we may achieve in our time and for all time the ancient vision of peace on earth, good will toward men. That must always be our goal, and the righteousness of our cause must always underlie our strength. For as was written long ago except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.
As major orchestras around the world are gripped in various kinds of crises and upheaval, we need to be sure that we are bringing up this new generation.
Volunteering is the last thing that this generation is going to do on their own, ... so if this is what it takes to get them to volunteer, then so be it.
We have a generation of young people who have grown up with recycling, and now they can't throw a can away. I think that will happen with water conservation. The priority should be in helping people learn how to do it themselves.
If you are prepared to accept the consequences of your dreams then you must still regard America today with the same naive enthusiasm as the generations that discovered the New World.
Loyalty to America requires that we should preserve a friendly and encouraging and sympathetic goodwill toward our day and generation.
There's one big difference between me and the others -- I won't take every last dime of the surplus and spend it on tax cuts that mostly benefit the wealthy. I'll use the bulk of the surplus to secure Social Security far into the future to keep our promise to the greatest generation.
That's because hardly any tech companies have the kind of bedrock cash flow required to offer payouts to investors. In general, tech companies are focused on betting the company on the next generation, ... They need every dime they can get.
Genetics is about how information is stored and transmitted between generations.
I bought myself a pickup truck, a big one, four doors, with a DVD player for the kids. And I'm proud of it, because to be able to purchase something like that, it's just something we've never been able to do in our family, for generations. But when I bought it, man, I felt like I was stealing something.
In 2005 we have a once in a generation opportunity to deliver a modern Marshall plan for the developing world.
The original al Qaeda always aspired to use technology in its war on the West. But bin Laden's had been the moment of fax machines and satellite television. Zarqawi is a new generation, ... The people around him are in their twenties. They view the media differently. The original al Qaeda are hiding in the mountains, not a technologically very well-equipped place. Iraq is an urban combat zone. Technology is a big part of that. I don't know how to distinguish the Internet now from the military campaign in general in Iraq.
We did extensive test marketing and truly believe that the public has an insatiable desire for this particular body part. After years of predominately featuring younger actresses going nude, the baby boom generation is excited to see a vagina it can relate to.
We could have a serious epidemic on our hands. Alzheimer's is a ticking time bomb in the heads of people in my generation. We must defuse it before it detonates and destroys our minds. Time is running out.
The baby boomer generation is retiring and the demands on Social Security will increase exponentially this decade. Vice President Gore believes the more responsible thing to do with a strong economy and a record surplus is to protect programs such as Social Security and Medicare.
Ultimately, we're building a new sense of place in the town we've called home for many generations. We know that Carson City residents, business owners and employees have opinions about the future of Carson City's downtown area, and we want to hear the suggestions and put them into action.
Thought once awakened does not again slumber; unfolds itself into a System of Thought; grows, in man after man, generation after generation, - till its full stature is reached, and such System of Thought can grow no farther, but must give place to another.
Well, I grew up around the magazine and was part of a generation that was embracing our sexuality.
I am not even part of this whole microwave generation that is my generation, Gen X. I'm right in the middle of it.
In America we know the kids are not as physically challenged as they could be and also in terms of education we need to really pay attention to the next generation.
Haute couture implies precision in lines Haute couture consists of secrets whispered from generation to generation, ... If, in ready-to-wear, a garment is manufactured according to standard sizes, the haute couture garment adapts to any imperfection in order to eliminate it.
I believe the solution to the energy challenge is threefold stabilize prices, increase conservation and increase generation,
Martin Luther King belonged to another transcendent generation. A generation born into segregation a generation freed from racism's restraints by their own efforts a generation equally determined to see their way as free women and men.
UL is very excited about our next generation. They've put us on the fast track because it saves lives.
A large proportion of the global population is in this region, and beyond that there is a diversity of animals that are thought to be important in the generation of these pandemic viruses.
The objective for the next generation is to make it more evolutionary. Three hundred millimeter was quite an abrupt change with many new standards. If we repeat that, we will have failed.
This plan, if approved by the PUC, would ensure that Penn Power customers have a secure supply of electricity at a price that will be set for a 17-month period, ... We believe the RFP process is the best way to achieve the most competitive, market-based prices for generation.
I always get questions that people didn't know that the event was happening. The younger generation doesn't read news-papers as my generation did, so we'll use vision medium. When I travel to other posts and turn on their information channel, I can really get to know what's happening. We're working hard to bring ours up to something people want to watch.
I need as much as I can get. The cost of living for our generation is way higher than it was for our parents.
Nobody can be rich and stupid for more than one generation.
We have become a generation of people who worship our work, who work at our play, and who play at our worship.
We must recognize that beneath the superficial classifications of sex and race the same potentialities exist, recurring generation after generation, only to perish because society has no place for them
Freedom is no heritage. Preservation of freedom is a fresh challenge and a fresh conquest for each generation. It is based on the religious concept of the dignity of man. The discovery that man is free is the greatest discovery of the ages.
This has given me the greatest trouble and still does to realize that what things are called is incomparably more important than what they are. The reputation, name, and appearance, the usual measure and weight of a thing, what it counts for -- originally almost always wrong and arbitrary, thrown over things like a dress and altogether foreign to their nature and even to their skin -- all this grows from generation unto generation, merely because people believe in it, until it gradually grows to be part of the thing and turns into its very body what at first was appearance becomes in the end, almost invariably, the essence and is effective as such.