Quotes About Generation

I should add that all that my teachers would later teach me of the superiority of character-driven comedy over situation comedy never managed to uproot from me every child's conviction: that those who hurl cream pies at each other's faces are funny in a far more relaxing, and, therefore, at bottom more satisfying way, than the more subtle forms of what is called "wit." In fact, it is quite remarkable that these latter forms usually grow stale in less than a generation.

Entitlement was, she knew, a terrible thing. It chained the person to their victimhood. It gobbled up all the air around it. Until the person lived in a vacuum, where nothing good could flourish. And the tragedy was almost always compounded, Myrna knew. These people invariably passed it on from generation to generation. Magnified each time. The sore point became their family legend, their myth, their legacy. What they lost became their most prized possession. Their inheritance.

generation, and he believed it. His one foolish decision. But sons tend to believe fathers.

And she'd exceeded every expectation, by qualifying for the Sûreté. In one generation her family had gone from victims of the authorities in Czechoslovakia, to the ones who made the rules. They'd moved from one end of the gun to the other.

Were you praying?' Lemieux was embarrassed to ask. Prayer, in his generation, was worse than rape, worse than sodomy, worse than failure. He felt he'd just deeply insulted the chief.

A man must be sacrificed now and again To provide for the next generation of men.

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes

with their pens, and no less great with their swords—fearing God very much, and fearing men very little,—they were a generation of men who have never received from their country the honor that they deserve.

Be saved from this perverse generation!" (Acts 2:40)

I cut him off at once, with that particular form of corrosive savagery that grown sons reserve for their bumbling fathers.

We're accustomed to the older generation looking down on the younger and telling them that they know nothing of the world. But things are rather out of kilter now, aren't they? It is your generation who understands the inhumanity of man, not ours. It's boys like you who have to live with what you have seen and what you have done. You've become the generation of response. While your elders can only look in your direction and wonder.

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The schools would fail through their silence, the Church through its forgiveness, and the home through the denial and silence of the parents. The new generation has to hear what the older generation refuses to tell it.

We ourselves did not invent family habits. For all eternity, your family is like mine, a dysfunctional lifestyle and a passing of habits from generation to generation. Not out of malice, spite, or hate, but what was known true and what was known best. As ineffective as these habits were, we knew no better way of loving one another.

The next generation wouldn't know the joy of making new friends by approaching them, they just search and add them.

Don't you hate it when you have an older family member on Facebook and they comment on EVERYTHING you do.

Blessed is the generation in which the old listen to the young; and doubly blessed is the generation in which the young listen to the old.

All are dead, and ourselves left alone amidst a new generation whom we know not, and who know us not.

In the end, the slow decay of the body didn't matter. We all continue on, renewing ourselves, through our offspring. They are what matter. They are what survives.

I believe it is by divine design that the role of motherhood emphasizes the nurturing and teaching of the next generation.

There is a desire for change. There is a millennial generation that doesn't like what they're seeing, but doesn't quite know what the solution is.

This is a generation that is really detached from the core, human values that lead to dignity.

Democracy has to be born anew every generation, and education is its midwife.

As the generation of Holocaust survivors and liberators dwindles, the torch of remembrance, of bearing witness, and of education must continue forward.