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Quotes About Generation

Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family.
~ Gertrude Stein
But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don't get young men standing up and saying, 'How can I combine career and family?'
~ Gertrude Stein
The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they can accept it or reject it.
~ Gertrude Stein
F. Scott Fitzgerald is the first of the last generation.
~ Gertrude Stein
You are all a lost generation.
~ Gertrude Stein
Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
We all have a little weakness, which is very natural but rather misleading, for supposing that this epoch must be the end of the world because it will be the end of us. How future generations will get on without us is indeed, when we come to think of it, quite a puzzle. But I suppose they will get on somehow, and may possibly venture to revise our judgments as we have revised earlier judgments
~ Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Caleb watched Ardon leave. Then he turned and walked back toward his tent. He studied the people as he walked through the camp, especially the men. I wonder if this new generation will be any more faithful to God than the ones who died in the wilderness. He was not the man of prayer Joshua was. Still, he had faith in God like a rock. "God," he said, "we're going to need you. We can't do it alone, so be our helper in this battle that's shaping up.
~ Gilbert Morris
you just can't use averages to predict the specifics of the next generation of eddies, any more than you could use an average to predict the life-story of an individual human being.
~ Giles Foden
Heaven makes you family, but a new generation of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors can make you friends.
~ Gina Barreca
now at long last one of them is going to have the courage to explain to my generation how any human being with mind and heart and brain could Ã¢â'¬Â¦ not even 'do' what was done – it isn't our function to say whether a man is 'guilty as charged' or not – but even see it being done, and consent to remain alive.
~ Gitta Sereny
Os homens daquela geração faziam questão em transmitir o que haviam compreendido da vida, sentiam que isso era importante. Creio que foram os últimos a pensar assim. A partir da geração do meu pai, mais ninguém achou que pudesse valer a pena transmitir algum ensinamento que fosse. Tornámo-nos todos demasiado cool, demasiado modernos. E além disso vivemos no terror do ridículo. Ninguém quer fazer de velho parvo.
~ Giuliano da Empoli
The responsibility to educate the next generation should be solemn. Unlike, say, the obligation to incarcerate people who have inhaled the smoke of the burning leaves of an illegal plant.
~ Glen Merzer
If we continue to stand up for our rights, none of us alive today will ever have to pick up a weapon against our government. The bad news is that if those rights are watered down or taken away, the risk of tyranny will increase with each passing generation.
~ Glenn Beck
Years earlier, I might have scoffed, but I'd come to accept that, for Snowden's generation, they played no less serious a role in molding political consciousness, moral reasoning, and an understanding of one's place in the world than literature, television, and film. They, too, often present complex moral dilemmas and provoke contemplation, especially for people beginning to question what they've been taught.
~ Glenn Greenwald
A lot of my generation are living out the un-lived lives of our mothers.
~ Gloria Steinem
In thirty years or so, the majority will no longer be European Americans; the first generation of mostly babies of color has already been born. This new diversity will give us a better understanding of the world and enrich our cultural choices, yet there are people whose sense of identity depends on the old hierarchy.
~ Gloria Steinem
Truly, my dear young friends, you are a chosen generation. I hope you will never forget it. I hope you will never take it for granted. I hope there will grow in your hearts an overpowering sense of gratitude to God, who has made it possible for you to come upon the earth in this marvelous season of the world's history.
~ Gordon B. Hinckley
Believe in yourselves as sons and daughters of God, men and women with unlimited potential to do good in the world. Believe in personal virtue. There is no substitute for it anywhere under the. heavens. Believe in your power to discipline yourselves against the evils which could destroy you. Believe in one another as the greatest generation ever yet to live upon the earth.
~ Gordon B. Hinckley
We have to remember that Xi, head of a divided Communist Party, has no faction he can call his own. People often say he heads the "Princelings," but that term merely describes the "second Red generation" or "Red Nobility": the sons and daughters of either former leaders or current serving high officials.
~ Gordon Chang
As is the generation of leaves, so is that of humanity. The wind scatters the leaves on the ground, but the live timber Burgeons with leaves again in the season of spring returning. So one generation of men will grow while another dies.
~ Homer, The Iliad
Every old man complains of the growing depravity of the world, of the petulance and insolence of the rising generation. He recounts the decency and regularity of former times, and celebrates the discipline and sobriety of the age in which his youth was passed; a happy age which is now no more to be expected, since confusion has broken in upon the world, and thrown down all the boundaries of civility and reverence.
~ Samuel Johnson, 1750
Grandmothers are just antique little girls. Grandfathers are just antique little boys.
~ Author Unknown
A grandparent is old on the outside but young on the inside.
~ Author Unknown