Quotes About Generation

Whatever your age, parents generally embarrass their children. I think that's a role we have to play.

It's very hard for our parents who see us enter a world that they can't imagine.

The future of this nation, with the present generation, You must admit is nothing but a joke

Certainly he is not of the generation that regards honesty as the best policy. However, he does regard it as a policy. (On President Richard M Nixon)

the Thing has stirred in its moorings. The Thing that my Grandfather Harry and his generation of Harrys had thought was nothing but a false alarm.

I believe that in each generation God has called enough men and women to evangelize all the yet unreached tribes of the earth. It is not God who does not call. It is man who will not respond!

I don't want to sound like someone's grandmother or anything here, but really, would it be so hard to pick up a phone and call?

Every human generation has its own illusions with regard to civilization; some believe they are taking part in its upsurge, others that they are witnesses of its extinction. In fact, it always both flames and smolders and is extinguished, according to the place and the angle of view.

When I was young there was no respect for the young, and now that I am old there is no respect for the old. I missed out coming and going.

There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age - I missed it coming and going.

In Samuel's day the people were distracted by the form of government they saw in their neighboring nations and decided that they, too, should have a king. In generation after generation the perceived prosperity of such neighbors distracted Israel from the Lord God, making them wonder if Baal might be better. Thus envy lent its power to distraction.

Pop artists deal with the lowly trivia of possessions and equipment that the present generation is lugging along with it on its safari into the future.

Star Wars is probably the most influential film of my generation. That work was the personification of good and evil and the way it opened up the world to space adventure, the way westerns did to our parents' generations, it left an indelible imprint. So, in a way, everything that any of us does is somehow directly or indirectly affected by the experience of seeing those first three films.

Those who have most powerfully and permanently influenced their generation have been "seers" -- people who have seen more and farther than others -- persons of faith, for faith is vision.

It is the paradox of history that each generation is converted by the saint who contradicts it most.

President Johnson said, "[t]his generation has altered the composition of the atmosphere on a global scale through radioactive materials and a steady increase in carbon dioxide from the burning of fossil fuels.

each generation of adults has a choice to pass on traditions of violence and fear—or refuse to do so.

Drift House: Susan's response to Queen Octavia's sarcasm in regards to fading memories..."But we pass our memories on," she insisted. "I mean, from one generation to the next. Parents teach their children. They write things down, tell them stories--

Everybody always wants to rebel against their parents' music, but nobody listened to music louder than my dad.

There's nothing wrong with the younger generation that becoming taxpayers won't cure.

My dad was vehemently opposed to electric guitars. He did not look on that kind of music as legitimate in any way.

Fathers and sons are players in a tale of unrequited love—a story told in yearning, anger, sadness, and shame.

You tell them that you're doing this not because you want to save money on office space but because this is how their generation likes to work.

Our generation does not want its epitaph to read, 'We kept charity overhead low.' We want it to read that we changed the world.