Quotes About Generation

Each generation should be made to bear the burden of its own wars, instead of carrying them on, at the expense of other generations.

My generation has failed miserably. We've failed because of lack of courage and vision. It requires more courage to keep the peace than to go to war.

It seemed clear that wars were not made by generations and their special stupidities, but that wars were made instead by something ignorant in the human heart

It's always the old to lead us to the war. It's always the young to fall.

This war has already stretched the generation gap so wide that it threatens to pull the country apart.

A common lament of the World War II generation is the absence today of personal responsibility

Mine is the first generation able to contemplate the possibility that we may live our entire lives without going to war or sending our children to war.

When you kill somebody's little sister with a missile, he's going to hate you forever. And the next generation will hate you even more.

We in this country, in this generation, are, by destiny rather than choice, the watchmen on the walls of world freedom.

A generation that hates war will not bring peace. A generation that loves peace will bring peace.

A new generation dedicated more than the last to the fear of poverty and the worship of success; grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken...

I guess every generation is doomed to fight its war...suffer the loss of the same old illusions, and learn the same old lessons on its own.

Girls would never do anything so unladylike as run, Norma explained. They would skip instead. And they would never, goodness gracious, sit so their skirts would hike up. Both boys and girls were taught respect for their elders, which included never interrupting or talking back to any adult. "I'm glad I didn't live back then," Catherine said (but not until later, when she wasn't interrupting anyone).

The family drama may look and sound different from generation to generation, but all toxic patterns are remarkably similar in their outcome: pain and suffering.

The most regrettable consequence of the discontinuity in the record of American rationalist dissent is that its moral lessons must be relearned in every generation. It is telling that even so voracious a reader as Garrison was beyond the midpoint of his life when he discovered his spiritual ancestor Thomas Paine. When your own mind is your own church, it can take a very long time for future generations to make their way to the sanctuary.

You kids come to work and think you deserve to get paid, even though you don't work. You live on your phones, you live off your parents, while the rest of us make life easy for you by paying you to sit on your asses connected to the Internet." He

Unlike older generations, people under thirty are also less likely to have office jobs. Consequently, they are always looking for pleasant places to work outside their homes. Many end up in coffee shops and hotel lobbies or join the booming business of coworking spaces.

Unlike older generations, people under thirty are also less likely to have office jobs. Consequently, they are always looking for pleasant places to work outside their homes. Many end up in coffee shops and hotel lobbies or join the booming business of coworking spaces. Some of them are also discovering that libraries are society's original coworking spaces and have the distinct advantage of being free.

After all, she was fifteen, and Jericho was something ancient like thirty-four or thirty-five.

When my father is happy with my music, I know I have done something good, and there is no question of generation gap.

We should ensure to teach the next generation something good. We have such rich literature and history. Why can't we make better stories?

I definitely take it as a really big responsibility on my shoulders to make sure I'm motivating my generation and the people around me and, hopefully, inspire people to try something new.

I think that there is a generational change, where new generations that have grown up always having access to the internet have a somewhat different view in terms of personal information and what needs to be kept private.

Every father and son have conflicts.