Quotes About Generations

Jazz celebrates older generations and not just the youth movement. When you 'sell' only to people of a certain age, you get cut off from the main body of experience.

I am connected to youth through my two daughters.

There have not been children of comparable youth in the White House since the Kennedy era.

Nonviolence will empower and equip us to bring generations to the table and fuse our knowledge, gifts, and zeal together.

My father and uncles and all their friends turned their lungs black trying to satisfy my collector's zeal.

Each generation tries to disassociate itself with the last generation. And then, about three decades later, people kind of start to maybe appreciate what you might have done a while back that you don't even realize you did.

We can no longer afford the war in Iraq. Our financial costs have already passed a third of a trillion dollars; the lifetime costs for this war, in both human and economic terms, will be borne by Americans for generations to come.

My grandparents used to tell me stories about their trip to Ellis Island from Russia and life on the Lower East Side of New York.

I've probably been guilty of assuming people from by-gone generations were stuffy, two dimensional and a bit dull. But my trip on 'Who Do You Think You Are?' has proved the opposite to be true.

When your dad is a country music fan and you take long car trips, you become one too.

Every age has its happiness and troubles.

A Trump presidency will turn the economy around and restore the great American tradition of giving each new generation hope for brighter opportunities than those of the generation that came before.

Young people understand that there is not a Social Security trust fund. Social Security is a pay-as-you-go system, where today's millennials are paying for today's seniors.

Think beyond your lifetime if you want to accomplish something truly worthwhile.

The Earth cannot wait 60 years. I want a future for my children and my children's children. The clock is ticking.

The children of each generation are taught to want what they are taught they must not have.

People have asked me, what about your tattoos when you're ninety? Why would it bother me then? I would still want to get tattooed even when I'm a grandmother.

What about our children and grandchildren and their children and grandchildren? Do we not want them to live healthy and happy lives?

I have a magnificent obsession. All I want to do is change the world ...make it a better place for this and future generations.

I get on fine with my mum and dad, but if they want to see the grandchildren, they come to me.

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.

Ma, I'm just trying to get going on those grandchildren you want.

He had been born into debt, as had his father and his father before him. Indenture and slavery were two words for the same thing.

A hungry man thinks only about how he can feed his family today. He doesn't care that how he feeds them today destroys his children's tomorrow.