Quotes About Generation

A father lives after death in his son.

Writing about the 1950s has given me tremendous respect for my mother's generation.

I'm very aware we are the first generation ever to have such incredible opportunities to express ourselves publicly to a worldwide audience.

To those of us who pride ourselves on being "informal," I'd encourage us to consider what story we could possibly be telling without form. Is our story merely about how cool our pastor is and how loud our subwoofers are? Or have we truly developed a biblical theology of worship that imparts the only story that really matters to the next generation?

Storytelling is our task with the next generation, and it starts with loving the story ourselves and telling it as though we believe it—because we believe it.

For the first time in the history of mankind, one generation literally has the power to destroy the past, the present and the future, the power to bring time to an end.

We are Scotland's independence generation. And our time is now

We come from a generation of people who need their TV or stereo playing all the time. These people so scared of silence. These soundaholics, these quietophobics.

You know ladies and gentlemen, a long time ago , there were lots of people, but that was a long time ago

Science progresses not by convincing the adherents of old theories that they are wrong, but by allowing enough time to pass so that a new generation can arise unencumbered by the old errors.

I remember the 1940s as a time when we were united in a way known only to that generation. We belonged to a common cause-the war.

For thousands of years, father and son have stretched wistful hands across the canyon of time.

Speakers are not supposed to waste time on platitudes, but the capacity of this generation for ignoring the obvious and concentrating on the negative and the obscure is immense.

I come from way north. We'd listen to radio shows all the time. I think I was the last generation, or pretty close to the last one, that grew up without TV.

We've known for some time that we have to worry about the impacts of climate change on our children's and grandchildren's generations. But we now have to worry about ourselves as well.

Like some kind of particularly tenacious vampire the short story refuses to die, and seems at this point in time to be a wonderful length for our generation.

I don't have faith in young people any more. I don't waste time trying to communicate with them.

I always felt like I was born in the wrong time period. I felt like I should've been born in the mid-to-late '40s.

I am continually influenced by the feeling that music culture captured in the late 60s - for my generation, it was a time to rebel, against our parents, against everything.

Men have no right to put the well-being of the present generation wholly out of the question. Perhaps the only moral trust with any certainty in our hands is the care of our own time.

Non si è forse osservato abbastanza che il problema della libertà sensuale in tutte le sue forme è in gran parte un problema di libertà di espressione. Appare evidente come, di generazione in generazione, le tendenze e gli atti differiscono ben poco; ciò che invece cambia è l'estensione della zona di silenzio che li circonda o lo spessore degli strati di menzogna che li comprimono.

Once a generation there is a girl born who is destined to slay the vampires.

A faithless and perverse generation asketh for a sign, and no sign shall be given unto them.

Any father…must finally give his child up to the wilderness and trust to the providence of God. It seems almost a cruelty for one generation to beget another when parents can secure so little for their children, so little safety, even in the best circumstances. Great faith is required to give the child up, trusting God to honor the parents' love for him by assuring that there will indeed be angels in that wilderness.