Quotes About Generation

There's a generation of people I think without a strong connection to family, to religion, to civic duty. They have a real disassociation from the problems of the world.

Every generation is born into, for the most part, a heterosexual family.

I'm the most successful person in my generation of family members, and that sucks.

My dad was a doctor and surgeon. He was the fifth generation of his family to become a doctor.

Everyone wants to procreate, have a miniature version of themselves running around, to carry on the family line.

The erosion of extended family concept and losing out on values are the two things that are primarily responsible for the growing mismatch in the parent-child relationship.

Any father whose son raises his hand against him is guilty of having produced a son who raised his hand against him.

My father's generation gave to my generation a land of wealth and purpose and world economic dominance.

My father comes from a generation of film that actors my age don't even know about, which is really sad.

What the father kept silent the son speaks out.

The modern minds in each generation are the critics who preserve us from a petrifying world, who will not leave us to walk undisturbed in the ways of our fathers.

...it is said with such terrible justice that the sins of the fathers are avenged down to the tenth generation. But this applies only to profanation of the blood and the race.

In school, kids never really looked at me a different way because I think it was a different generation; they didnt really know who my father was.

The moral code which was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for our children.

My grandfather was a practising Quaker. My father was a nihilist. But nihilism, if you like, is the beginning of faith anyway.

I look a lot like my father when he was my age.

It now costs more to amuse a child than it once did to educate his father.

My first soldier role was in 'Flags of Our Fathers.' Casting director Jay Binder saw that movie and was looking for soldiers for 'Journey's End,' which led to 'Generation Kill.'

The people whom the sons and daughters find it hardest to understand are the fathers and mothers, but young people can get on very well with the grandfathers and grandmothers.

I was also an only child and my father really wanted a son - he's from that generation - it was always about kung-fu theater on Sundays and boxing games on the weekend.

On the Black Sea, my father saw it begin. And on the Black Sea, seventy years on, I saw the beginning of its end.

My mom loved rock n' roll. My father hated it. We couldn't play it when he was around. He liked classical music and Duke Ellington.

My mom loved rock 'n roll. My father hated it. We couldn't play it when he was around.

I believe that there is a great fear in our generation of being labeled as priggish.