Quotes About Generation

The corrupt and blood-smeared fingerprints of the past must be wiped away to create a clean space for the morally pure generation that is surely about to arrive. Such is the theory.

His generation believed that if there was trouble all you'd have to do was shoot someone and then it would be okay.

His generation believed that if there was trouble all you'd have to do was shoot someone and then it would be okay.

So you'll have to wait for approval from your grandchildren." "I wonder what our grandchildren will be like!" "Are you suggesting by that 'our' that you and I will have mutual grandchildren? Fie, Mrs. Kennedy!

The soil is actually the greatest technology we have for adapting to climate change. And I feel it's our generation's duty to build it back up.

All good technology should be used to piss off people's parents.

I fear the day that technology will surpass our human interaction. The world will have a generation of idiots.

Don't force your children into your ways, for they were created for a time different from your own.

By the time a man realizes that his father was right, he has a son who thinks he's wrong.

Like, Jay Z has some of the sickest lyrics ever, but I would never buy his CD, just because of my age and because of his age. By the time I turn that old, I ain't gonna be doing what he's doing.

You're always a child of your time, and you cannot step out of that.

I would have preferred to have been born in any other time than our own.

It's all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.

Our generation has an incredible amount of realism, yet at the same time it loves to complain and not really change. Because, if it does change, then it won't have anything to complain about.

There is always Joker to see through the delusion. Generation succeeds generation, but there is a fool walking the earth who is never ravaged by time.

The only way to create a foundational document that could stand the test of time was to build in enough flexibility that later generations would be able to adapt it to their own needs and uses.

The kids now are more productive than we ever were; they're a lot more prolific and productive in the sense that they have to have music out all the time.

The most liberated generation of women in American history, raised on the notion that they could be much more than caregivers, became caregivers cubed.

I hasten to mention that I have never actually solicited a catalogue. Although it is tempting to conclude that our mailbox hatches them by spontaneous generation, I know they are really the offspring of promiscuous mailing lists, which copulate in secret and for money.

Sometimes old people have really old-fashioned ideas, but that doesn't mean I have to go along with them.

A hundred years from now? All new people.

Boy, the young are angry at us. Good. This is what usually changes the world, although it's a new experience to be the us the young are mad at.

But there was something strange about her that made me think she was somebody. I don't mean her poise, the cool manner in which she stood with arms folded just watching all the goings on at the book party. Kids inherit that poise. It's their enemy, the way ignorance was the enemy of my generation.

You are living in a blessed time now, Reuben, and you will be until all those you love here are gone, until your generation is in the earth. Then immortality will begin for you.