Quotes About Generation

With each generation, the amount of environmental degradation increases, but each generation takes that amount as the norm.

I don't know what's the trouble with children these days. They seem to get worse and worse.

The known is finite, the unknown is infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability. Our business in every generation is to claim a little more land.

Are contented with the morning that separates And with the evening that brings together For casual talk before the fire Two people who know they do not understand each other, Breeding children whom they do not understand And who will never understand them.

Many people give the appearance of progress by shedding the prejudices and irrational postulates of one generation only to acquire those of the next.

Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat a peach? I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach. I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. (It's not the main point of the poem, but I am the third generation of my family who's never been able to eat a peach without wondering, do I dare and do I dare)

You have no idea. when you're a salesman here in Marrakech medima, lying is the first thing you learn. generation after generation, they pass it on. its the secret ingredient the foundationfor a salesman's success. lie well and you make a fortune every day. your wife purrs like a kitten, and your children ealk tall with pride.

And adults say young people these days don't know anything. If only those adults knew that you, Jorality Bancanor, knew everything. Why they'd have hope for the future.

We're the most aggressively inarticulate generation to come along since, you know, a long time ago!

Where music survives in formal education, it has of necessity shifted its focus over the last generation to mirror everyday culture rather than to reflect upon it. One

If one wanted to assess whether a generation of homeschoolers raised on Christian Reconstruction have any influence, the Georgia State Republican Party might be a good place to start.

a newborn with a mother whose mother came undone.

Now in my middle fifties, an irrelevant codger, I find it discomfiting to see this generation dancing to the music of apocalypse and carrying their psychic burdens in front of them like infants in arms.

Children always take their own parents for idiots.

Pasa que los cronopios no quieren tener hijos, porque lo primero que hace un cronopio recién nacido es insultar groseramente a su padre, en quien oscuramente ve la acumulación de desdichas que un día serán las suyas.

Hers was the generation that would launch the Revolution, but which for the moment was turning blue for want of air. The generation reaching consciousness in a society that lacked any. The generation that despite the consensus that declared change impossible hankered for change all the same.

Hers was the generation that would launch the Revolution, but which for the moment was turning blue for want of air.

Today, you're more likely to drown in a swimming pool than die a violent death. That's a luxury no one outside this generation has ever known.1

He still had the young person's predisposition to regard the world as a series of vaguely irritating problems created by people less cool and smart than he was.

The job of every generation is to discover the flaws of the one that came before it. That's part of growing up, figuring out all the ways your parents and their friends are broken. So pity the first people to reach puberty after a zombie apocalypse, who would have some truly heavy lifting in this department...You become whatever they fear the most. Now THAT'S evolution

Still children into their twenties, this generation

There's a generation of children who don't like black and white movies. There's a level of impatience or intolerance now.

I hope to introduce my audience to who I think is the next class of YouTuber.

Boeing has won in the marketplace for 100 years because of innovation, and we need to continue to invest in innovation for the future. And our cash generation strength is what allows us to do that.