Quotes About Generation

though we can educate the younger generation, we can even command them, we cannot control their lives, much as we think we'd do a better job of it.

Every war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it.

One can not, without absurdity, indefinitely sacrifice each generation to the following one; human history would then be only an endless succession of negations which would never return to the positive.

Like every thoughtful parent in every age of history, Neil consoled himself, My generation failed, but this new one is going to change the entire world, and go piously to the polls even on rainy election-days, and never drink more than one cocktail, and end all war.

American whose fathers have lived in the country for over two generations is so utterly different from any other American.

Emma, your granddad's on the line," says Artemis, putting her hand over the receiver. "Something about the night bus and he'll never trust you again?

Creon: You consider it right for a man of my years and experience To go to school to a boy? Haimon: It is not right If I am wrong. But if I am young, and right, What does my age matter?

Everything's a 360 and that's what's so funny about life now, and they're right at that age and I have teenagers now, and I'm like 'Wow I remember when I did that.' Aint nothing new.

The thing is, our generation, we fight every day to get through life.

I am a child of my generation, and I rejoice that I live in such splendidly disturbing times.

It seems to be typical of life in America ... that the second generation has no time to talk to the first.

I was relatively isolated from people of color. My parents are too old to be Baby Boomers; they had me later in life. So we didn't listen to any black music at all in the house, not even Ben E. King.

Our parents are the coolest parents ever. No other generation went on from writing letters to their own parents to sending snapchats to their own kids.

Life is not how we lead it. It is how children are born to lead it.

I want to sell to people my own age, because that's the way I write songs.

As a generation, as a society, we never talk about the shit that went down with the fear of nuclear war. Not really. We'll laugh about how scary The Day After was, but we never recognize that we were raised in despair and probably handed it down to our kids and to later versions of ourselves.

I suppose people of our generation aren't able to die for good causes any longer. We had all that done for us, in the thirties and the forties, when we were still kids. ...There aren't any good, brave causes left. (Jimmy Porter)

Charles) Laughton was one of the most pugnaciously morose men I had ever met. His huge talent seemed to endorse his implacable resentment. His Caliban self-portraiture must have been further agnozied by being incarcerated, like so many of his unhappy generation, in that closet which dared not speak its name. Even his large collection of Klees and Kokoshchkas was displayed as trophies of martyrdom rather than joyful plunder.

You are terrified of your own children, since they are natives in a world where you will always be immigrants.

The critical question for our generation—and for every generation— is this: If you could have heaven, with no sickness, and with all the friends you ever had on earth, and all the food you ever liked, and all the leisure activities you ever enjoyed, and all the natural beauties you ever saw, all the physical pleasures you ever tasted, and no human conflict or any natural disasters, could you be satisfied with heaven, if Christ were not there?

Now learn this lesson from the fig tree: As soon as its twigs get tender and its leaves come out, you know that summer is near. Even so, when you see all these things, you know that it is near, right at the door. I tell you the truth, this generation will certainly not pass away until all these things have happened.

our homes, communities, country, and on our planet. Instead of forever being blamed for the excesses that put our planet on the destructive path, perhaps we can be viewed as the generation that rose above comfort and decadence to turn things around.

That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in the next.

Kids have too much money these days, if you ask me.