Quotes About Generation

If you ask me, this younger generation is altogether too careless about their morals.

We've got a generation now who were born with semiequality. They don't know how it was before, so they think, this isn't too bad. We're working. We have our attache' cases and our three piece suits. I get very disgusted with the younger generation of women. We had a torch to pass, and they are just sitting there. They don't realize it can be taken away. Things are going to have to get worse before they join in fighting the battle.

You are all a lost generation. [with credit to Gertrude Stein]

I would like to bear thy son and hy daughter, she told hime. And how can the world be made better if there are no children of us who fight against the fascists?

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Popular! ' Dad roared. 'Popular! that's the magic word isn't it. That's what's the matter with this generation. nobody thinks about being smart, or clever, or sweet, or even attractive. No sir. They want to be skinny and flat chested and popular. They'd sell their soul and body to be popular, and if you ask me lot of them do.

Now that these men and women and the generations who have followed can have as much sex as they want, they seem to have lost their desire for it.

We did those things when we were acting of fear from the cold war. After 9/11 we learned a new kind of fear. A whole generation of brilliant minds started imagining all of the scary things that bad people could do to using genetic engineering, computer viruses, nanotechnology and a thousand other technologies.' 'Once you start thinking

She obviously never thought deeply about something she did so naturally, as naturally as breathing: avoiding reality until it was absolutely necessary to face it. Was it just her or her entire generation? Had they all become Scarlett O'Haras, deciding they would worry about it tomorrow?

The stranglehold of the departed was much resented by the new generation of aspiring authors. Which is why it is who did make the breakthrough were so admired.

He was of that generation of men who simply accepted the mystery of womanhood, who made no effort to try to understand their wives, but simply accepted that there were things that women said and did that they would never understand.

Palabras pulcramente escogidas; frases de cuidada estructura; acumulación argumental; empleo de la analogía; despliegue de excentricidades... Esos son los cinco mimbres retóricos del mayor orador de su generación.

Wychodzi?o na to, ?e zbrodnia w afekcie. Innych wtedy nie by?o. Nie to, co teraz. My zasadniczo nie pope?niali?my powa?nych przest?pstw. A ju? na pewno nie z ch?ci zysku. Do g?owy nam by nie przysz?o, ?e mo?emy splami? si? jakim? zyskiem. Interesowa?a nas strata. Ostatnie takie pokolenie.

Whenever pastors assume people in their congregation know certain things, they miss opportunities to teach. If a pastor makes assumptions year after year, then a whole generation has never heard [that truth] for the first time. If we assume too much, we communicate too little.

Es absurdo pensar que nuestras ideas pueden pasar de una generación a otra. Es igualmente absurdo asumir que nosotros vamos a ser capaces de descubrir intuitivamente la necesidad de cambio en nuestras propias organizaciones.

Now, the vicissitudes that afflict the individual have their source in society. It is this situation that has given currency to the phrase social forces. Personal relations have given way to impersonal ones. The Great Society has arrived and the task of our generation is to bring it under control. The study of how it is to be done is the function of politics.

Abandoned lovers were often lured into the false embrace of faithless mistresses and this caused the Minister the gravest concern for he feared that one day a man would impregnate an illusion and then a generation of half-breed ghosts would befoul the city

Not many people can boast a photo of their grandmother posing for kiddiporn.

Because I am your great-great-great-great-great-great-sgreat-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-Grandmother. But you may call me Grandmama." "Grandmama!" said Jenna, aghast.

Science chases money and money chases its tail and the best minds of my generation can't make bail. But the bacteria are coming-- that's my prediction. It's the answer to this culture of the quick-fix prescription.

My friends and I make great fun of the fact that I was labeled the so-called spokesperson for the generation. I don't think many writers write from that perspective. I'm sure John Updike doesn't sit around thinking, Boy, have I got the number on suburbia. He'd be horrified if he thought that was all he was up to.

I think eventually I want to become a teacher, like my father wanted to be, and hopefully positively influence the next generation.

I always thought millennials are going westward, and they probably won't understand vernacular poetry.

For my part, I hold it equally impossible for a small shellfish to be produced without generation as for a whale to have its origin from the mud.