Quotes About Generation

The miraculous birth of Jesus is so easy to believe since it happened to another man with his wife. But it will be impossible to accept it in our generation, or when it happens to any of us.

The new teaching of each of you is God philosophy is truly insane in itself. Madness of this generation, even the devil can create fake things.

The sages of every generation wish that they could find a master key that can rekindle inspiration in their minds after its fire has been extinguished for a while.

The secondary purpose of sport is to distract people from reality, it is the new drug of our generation.

We currently live in a generation where many people have the desire to know everything, mere knowledge, while success or wealth is only visible in the hands of a few.

We currently live in the generation that does not wait for fortune to work in your favour, but creates your own luck.

We have reached the generation where people must be motivated; to get married.

We live in the generation where unnecessary things appear great in front of the masses due to good promotion, while great works remain unknown and hidden from the public eye.

We must, at once re-educate the next generation not to fall prey to this lowly level of thinking. Thus, making them strong enough to survive the next episode of life.

What is the use of having a new generation without inspiration? It's such a shame that we learn more from the dead than from the living.

You can do very well without a wife or a woman without a man. But in order not to be too selfish or to not end the cycle of a new generation, we must marry at all costs.

The twenty-seven books of the New Testament were all written within two generations of the time of Jesus--in other words, by the end of the first century at the latest--though most scholars would put most of them earlier than that.

One of the great gains of biblical scholarship this last generation, not least because of our new understanding of first-century Judaism, is our realization that the temple was central to the Jewish worldview.

The present generation has gazed with justified revulsion upon the whole late modern culture of violence and death; and it has noticed worrying signs of the same culture in some expressions of Christianity.

Learning how to think as the Messiah had thought, Paul insisted, was the only way to radical unity in the church, and it was also the secret of how to live as "pure and spotless children of God in the middle of a twisted and depraved generation

She thought of the boy thrown into the cauldron of war, the girl beset by various bigotries, her life in danger, and saw how unjust it all was, her fury limitless for a few moments. And she felt a sense of shame, something akin to accusation from them towards her and her generation, for not having constructed a better world to welcome and contain their beauty, to house their spirit. —

So-called generation gaps are especially common among immigrant families; these gaps can produce anxious and unpleasant tensions, and sometimes lead to nasty ruptures or chronic conflicts.

We got Martha Stewart legitimizing homemaking for her generation, and then there's this return to being interested in all things home, lifestyle, and food again. I think this generation is less about the frills and more about the flavor of things.

Then Cain founded a city, which he named Enoch, after his son.

Historical mythmaking is made possible only by forgetting. We have to begin, then, with the first refusal to face reality: most colonizing schemes that took root in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century British America were built on privilege and subordination, not any kind of proto-democracy. The generation of 1776 certainly underplayed that fact. And all subsequent generations took their cue from the nation's founders.

Before books, there were stories. In them was distilled the knowledge each generation wished to pass on to the next. Storytelling was (and is) a form of power. It was time binding: it linked then to now. Told eloquently, at the right time to the right listeners, a story shaped the future." -The Real Valkyrie

It was not, Zelda wrote, prosperity or the softness of life, or any instability that marred the war generation; it was a great emotional disappointment resulting from the fact that life moved in poetic gestures when they were younger and had since settled back into buffoonery.

There they are, held like flies in the amber of that moment—click goes the camera and on goes life; the minutes, the days, the years, the decades, taking them further and further from that happiness and promise of youth, from the hopes Aunt Sadie must have had for them, and from the dreams they dreamed for themselves. I often think there is nothing quite so poignantly sad as old family groups.

These children, she thought. This generation will all be deaf by thirty.