Quotes About Generation

excessive weight in one generation may predispose the next for higher lifetime risk of obesity, apart from genetic inheritance and the tendency of offspring to pick up their parents' lifestyle habits.

The old gods were the Titans. Humans are the Olympians. We banished the previous generation of gods to make gods of ourselves. But billions of humans still swear their allegiance to the deposed gods.

As parents, grandparents, uncles and aunts we need to start getting out into nature with the young people in our lives. Families play a key role in getting kids outside.

The catch is that, when this generation passes, its immunity passes with it. When cocaine again became fashionable during the 1970s, baby boomers had no living memory of its downside. Having sampled and survived the forbidden fruit of cannabis, they were openly skeptical of official warnings about cocaine and other drugs.

Y en esta nueva sociedad de un modo u otro todos acabaremos siendo un poco millennials, no importa en qué año hayamos nacido.

Apparently, for some reason known only to themselves, these people... have chosen to cling to hydrocarbon-fueled power generation well past the point at which they could have replaced it with nuclear generation.

One of the prices we pay in the segregation of education by age is the self-referential reality that each class year and generation makes for itself. There is nothing more conservative and repressive in this world than the peer pressure of teenagers determined to enforce the unwritten codes of their world.

The generation that bought the most shoes and crippled the moral footing

He was no respecter of institutions simply because they boasted antiquity. He believed, like all good radicals, that everything ought to be examined anew by each generation. What served society should be retained, and what did not should be discarded without sentiment or reserve.

When kids come on the dance floor it's time for elders to go to the bed.

For me, it's not just about blessing my generation, I've done that already, I also have to be a father to the fatherless.

The most unlucky generation is the one which couldn't produce a hero to look upto.

Women united can create movements. We can empower entire generations. We can build peace one action at a time. Together we rise. The time is now.

Lead generation excels when a campaign is looking to capture a piece of factual intelligence that could never be modelled or predicted through profiling and sophisticated propensity algorithms.

This generation lacks true knowledge of how the past has trapped you with psychological lassos over Adam's apples.

...one can hardly deny that mankind has a common store of thoughts which is transmitted from one generation to another.

Pero los jóvenes descubren demasiado tarde que las guerras las planean los viejos mientras son ellos, al fin, quienes mueren en los campos de batalla.

Believe me, all evil comes from the old. They grow fat on ideas and young men die of them.

Imagine the amazing good fortune of the generation that gets to see the end of the world. This is as marvelous as being there in the beginning. How could one not wish for that with all one's heart? How could one not lend one's feeble resources to bringing it about?

But if the great ideas of the past are to remain young and vital, each generation must, in turn, think them through and rediscover them in their pristine newness.

Yet GenX'er teens didn't slow down--they were just as likely to drive, drink alcohol, and date as their Boomer peers and more likely to have sex and get pregnant as teens. But then they waited longer to reach full adulthood with careers and children. So GenX'ers managed to lengthen adolescence beyond all previous limits: they started becoming adults earlier and finished becoming adults later.

iGen'ers are more likely than any generation before them to be raised by religiously unaffiliated parents.

iGen'ers' drumbeats of growing up slowly, individualism, and safety all manifest themselves in their exceedingly cautious attitude toward relationships.

In the next decade we may see more young people who know just the right emoji for a situation—but not the right facial expression.