Quotes About Generation

To Kill a Mockingbird would become like Catch-22, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, On the Road, Soul on Ice, and The Feminine Mystique—books that seized the imagination of the post–World War II generation

And what was the song which she sang? Ah, my little man, I am too old to sing that song, and you too young to understand it.

Indeed, the lesson of our history is that the task of merely maintaining strong and sturdy the structures of a constitutional order is unending, the continuing and ceaseless work of every generation.

If I were given the opportunity to present a gift to the next generation, it would be the ability for each individual to learn to laugh at himself.

Sometimes it takes an entire generation to see the life lost between freeway off-ramps.

Traditions decay when the reality facing the new generation changes. The habit of thrift decays if there is no penalty for not saving. The work ethic decays if there is no penalty for not working. Neighborliness

I believe the war on terror is the vital discussion of this decade and of our generation, probably. To win the war on terror, you need a good offense and a good defense. On defense, I regret to say, basically, this administration has not come close to doing what is necessary.

Almost every new movie I see these days features a bright, good-looking, talented young man who is so downright sad, he can barely lift his head. I want to scream, "What's wrong with this guy?" Then I feel a profound compassion because his generation has been forbidden the one thing that makes life such a breathtaking challenge: truth.

By the time a man realizes that his father was right, he has a son who thinks he's wrong.

By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong.

People are dying and my generation just does not care. Including me. But I want to care. I really want to. I want to care so bad.

Paternal Grandfather Remember the simple rule: you are to your father as your father is to your grandfather. Therefore, if you are male and terrified of your father, you should be exponentially more terrified of your grandfather. There are other issues related to your Earthling grandfather that are beyond the scope of this volume.

What our generation failed to learn was the nobility of work. An honest day's labor. The worthiness of the man in the white socks who would pull out a picture of his grandkids from his wallet. For us, the factory would never do. And turning away from our birthright—our grandfather in the white socks—is the thing that ruined us.

Whether or not you have children yourself, you are a parent to the next generation. If we can only stop thinking of children as individual property and think of them as the next generation, then we can realize we all have a role to play.

Have you no respect for the past? For what was thought and believed by your foremothers?" "Why, no," she said. "Why should we? They are all gone. They knew less than we do. If we are not beyond them, we are unworthy of them—and unworthy of the children who must go beyond us.

These millions of youth across the nation drive my politics. Unfortunately, the kind of politics we have practised and the governments that have resulted have ensured that we suffocate the talents of an entire generation.

Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers...

And still to-morrow's wiser than to-day. We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow; Our wiser sons no doubt will think us so.

The average teenager still has all the faults his parents outgrew.

My generation is not strong. My grandfather fought in World War II. I had a panic attack during the series finale of Breaking Bad.

The generation of babies born 9 months from now will be known as Children of the Quarn.

A lot of people say, 'What set the Attitude Era up?' or, 'What started the Attitude Era?' To me – and I was allegedly the leader of it – sports entertainment, pro wrestling, whatever you want to call it has always had an attitude. So, why that particular generation got labeled, I don't know.

Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn't have anything to do with it.

Writers are a combative bunch when it comes to aesthetics, and the generation before GENRE are born into a discourse that's been brewing since Cervantes.