Quotes About Generation

With children like this having children of their own, it was no wonder the world was full of children.

The amazing fact is that America is founded on a document. It's a work in progress. It can be tested by each generation.

It is instructive (and sometimes properly humbling) to give thought to that great stream of tradition within which we stand, rather than fondly imagine we are the first generation to face the challenge the Old Testament sets before us as Christians.

I honestly believe that people of my generation despise authenticity, mostly because they're all so envious of it.

We live in a generation where people will gladly choose a gold plaited piece of wood,over a mud clustered bag of diamonds . That's 21st century !!

Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.

Menurut para pakar, dibutuhkan tiga dasawarsa untuk membentuk satu generasi baru.

Seribu orang tua hanya dapat bermimpi, satu anak muda dapat mengubah dunia.

Every four seconds a baby boomer turns fifty

The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children. If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.

Yo que detesto el domingo porque está hueco Yo, que quiero la cosa más primordial porque es la fuente de la generación -yo que ambiciono beber agua en el manantial de la fuente-, yo que soy todo eso, debo por falta y trágico destino conocer tan sólo y experimentar tan sólo los ecos de mí, porque no capto el mí propiamente dicho.

People who have aged and died with lack of education do not make them less of a person. But for the new generation who are fresh and offered greater education, there is discernment that they can do better and achieve greater heights.

The familial narratives that are so important to who we are and to how the past is handed from one generation to the next disappeared, including those that remained untold until now. I forgot because so much was being forgotten.

That's the kiss-ass generation we're in right now. We're really in a pussy generation. Everybody's walking on eggshells.

We are often told that the next generation of literati won't have private libraries: everything will be in the computer. It's a rational solution, but that's probably what's wrong with it. Being book crazy is an aspect of love, and therefore scarcely rational at all.

John Quincy Adams subscribed to the thesis that his mother's generation was unique when he complained to [his wife] that there were no modern women like her. Abigail, God love her, shot back that women might act frivolous and flighty, but only because men wanted them to.

The Call to Action believes 'that environmental issues represent one of the greatest opportunities to demonstrate the love of Christ and plant churches among unreached and unengaged people groups in our generation'.

No one can see another in the darkness, Esch, and that cloudless clarity of yours is only a dream. You know that I cannot keep you beside me, much as you fear your loneliness. We are a lost generation. I too can only go about my business.

65. The generation of man is corruption; the corruption of man is the beginning of generation.

Although this is the capital of the future, its inhabitants are nostalgic by nature. Every generation has its own notion of "old New York" and claims to be its rightful heir. The result is, of course, a perpetual reinvention of the past. And this, in consequence, means there are always new old New Yorkers.

And I wish that I were not any part of the fifth generation of men, but had died before it came, or been born afterward. For here now is the age of iron.

The world moves on so fast, and we lose all chance of being the women our mothers were; we lose all understanding of what shaped them.

In a generation everything can change.

It takes a generation, he says, to reconcile heads and hearts. Englishmen of every shire are wedded to what their nurses told them. They do not like to think too hard, or disturb the plan of the world that exists inside their heads, and they will not accept change unless it puts them in better ease. But new