Ally Carter Quotes

Every international career is going to come to an end you're going to pass it down to the younger generation. Every career comes to that point.

Nothing is more incumbent on the old than to know when they should get out of the way and relinquish to younger successors the honors they can no longer earn, and the duties they can no longer perform.

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

The revolution has always been in the hands of the young. The young always inherit the revolution.

There is the expectation that a younger generation has the opportunity to redeem the crimes and failings of their elders and would have the strength and idealism to do so.

There is nothing more sad or glorious than generations changing hands.

This middle age thing is a little weird. Some friends and mentors are gone, and there's a very forward-looking new generation coming up behind me. So it's very much finding my own place.

Every generation welcomes the pirates from the last.

When the corpses are cleared no new order will emerge. Power, society, relationships, will descend in all their confusion on a new generation. The old, who started this conflagration, will retreat, worn out, the survivors and the young will continue the dance.

The next generation will always surpass the previous one. It's one of the never-ending cycles in life.

A generation may bind itself as long as its majority continues in life; when that has disappeared, another majority is in place, holds all the rights and powers their predecessors once held, and may change their laws and institutions to suit themselves. Nothing then is unchangeable but the inherent and inalienable rights of man.

Elevation of today's generation, if I can make them listen. Prisons ain't what we need, no longer stuck in greed.

Those times are over and gone, and good riddance to them, too. We were hopelessly high-spirited. Now we're the tick-waisted generation, dragging along our children behind us and carrying our parents on our backs. And we're in charge, while the figures who used to command our respect are wasting away.

It is to them I look, to the rising generation, and not to the one now in power, for these great reformations i.e., emancipation of slaves and settlement of the Virginia constitution on a firmer and more permanent basis.

I think I did in the sense that there's a whole generation coming up behind us that was engaged, inspired, worked for change during the course of my presidency, saw what was possible. And that generation, it's coming.

I received a beautiful welcome to the world of music. I want to give something back to the younger generation.

We're all human. After 10, 15 years you get tired, you run out of steam and ideas, you have to give a chance to somebody else. And whether you yourself are inclined to stay on, all those around you are pushing you to stay on for what they will gain.

You went to Woodstock and all that trash, your generation is fading fast.

When I look at certain aspects of popular culture - not everything because I like a lot of things - sometimes my heart breaks a little bit, just a little bit. I begin to ponder what happened to this generation, I don't know.

I really believe that more harm is done by old men who cling to their influence than by young men who anticipate it.

The heterodoxy of one generation is the orthodoxy of the next.

To death we owe our life; the passing of one generation opens a way for another.

I'm afraid you gave up the right to pontificate on social mobility when you abolished educational maintenance allowance [EMA], trebled tuition fees and betrayed a generation of young people.

I have overlived the generation with which mutual labors & perils begat mutual confidence and influence.

I was interested in the idea of succession - showing a father and a son both in their own time and drawing a contrast