Quotes About Generation

I was brought up to respect my elders, so now I don't have to respect anybody.

But the terrible truth is that the group of sleeping lions that the United States roused may well have inspired an entire generation of militant young Muslims to believe that the moment is theirs.

United States roused may well have inspired an entire generation of militant young Muslims to believe that the moment is theirs.

This volume follows in the same format as its predecessors, except that, at the suggestion of two reviewers of a previous volume, Biblical verses are identified, when recognized, for the benefit of our un-Biblical younger generation.

The United States will deal with it as it always does, with its citizens going through a decade of intense political rage at each other, accompanied by an economic crisis and a social one: the old against the young, and the problem of innovation leading to instability. Finally, the political process will create a solution, with a failing president who worships the old cycle, followed by one who will claim credit for presiding over the new cycle and its solutions.

The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records, to absorb its lessons and relate them to its own problems, history, too, would lose its meaning.

Sitrep?" Beside me Javier's vamp looked to the left, looked to the right, and unhinged its jaws. "The first generation of the sahanu is dead. The second generation of the sahanu is dead. The Order of Sahanu is dead. Everybody is dead." Javier paused. "Praise be to In-Shinar, the Merciful." "Stop it," I growled at him.

The people around him believed that fate was tracking them down, them and their pitiable generation; but not Maurice: he knew there had been exoduses throughout history. How many people had died on this land (on land everywhere in the world), dripping with blood, fleeing the enemy, leaving cities in flames, clutching their children to their hearts: no one gave a thought to these countless dead, or pitied them.

There had always been prophets of Malthusian doom in every generation since Medieval times and they had always proven wrong.

A muchas hijas nos ha tocado vivir la vida que nuestras madres no pudieron vivir.

I thought liberation had to do with going out into the world and assuming male duties, not with delegating part of my load. The result was a terrible fatigue, as witnessed today by the millions of women of my generation who question feminist movements.

In the past, adulthood arrived at twenty, middle age at forty, and old age at fifty. Today adolescence lasts until past thirty or forty, maturity comes around sixty, and old age starts at eighty. This is the baby boomers' achievement. Over the last half century they have redefined many cultural aspects for their convenience.

the string of bastards that was springing up behind him as if by magic.

Many of us daughters have had to live the lives that our mothers could not.

El femenismo no me alcanzó para repartir las tareas doméstics, en verdade esa idea no me pasó por la cabeza, creía que la liberación consistía en salir al mundo y echarme encima los deberes masculinos, pero no pensé que también trataba de delegar parte de mi carga. El resultado fue mucho cansacio, como le pasó a milllones de mujeres de mi generación que hoy cuestionam los movimientos feministas.

Soy impaciente; ahora comprendo que pretendía inyectarles feminismo a mi madre contra su voluntad, sin tener en cuenta que ella venía de otra época.

Woodstock didn't define a generation because everyone showed up or those who did were a perfectly representative sample. It defined a generation because, for a few days, it bottled its peculiar zeitgeist.

If you don't appeal to kids, to the zeitgeist, you get thrown on the scrapheap.

The fan support throughout the years, and the new generation, has made Zeppelin larger than life.

The old repeat themselves and the young have nothing to say. The boredom is mutual.

This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.

I deliberately try not to cater for the commercial market, so I can't see myself in competition, you know, with second or third generation rock stars.

In January 1999, I proposed an initiative to the Music Industry Forum which I called Communities In Tune. Its aim was to bring community centres to the Internet generation.

The Armenian Genocide is such a controversial and very sensitive issue because the Turkish and Armenian people disagree about the facts of what actually happened. I know how strongly Armenians feel about the Genocide, and how it's never been recognised. At the same time, I do not hold today's generation of people accountable.