Quotes About Generation

Come forth, old man,--thy daughter's side Is now the fitting place for thee: When time has quell'd the oak's bold pride, The youthful tendril yet may hide, The ruins of the parent tree.

What I learned in my time isn't necessarily being taught now, and I'd like to help impart that knowledge to a new generation of players.

Now, it is much more difficult for young people coming to New York. But also when you're young, you have more time to interact with one another, to discover yourself with people of your generation.

Of all the poetry written in our generation, Frost's is most likely to stand the test of time

I think people are always nostalgic for a time about 20 years before they were born.

For the children with their greedy little mouths represent the future, which like time itself will devour all now alive.

Very often we support change, and then are swept away by the change. I think that...you just make your own response to your own generation. A response adequate to your time.

The present is only faced in any generation by the artist.

Standing in the nordic nook of the kitchen, I can gaze down at the flimsy-limbed joggers heading south towards the Park. It's nearly as bad as New York. Some of these gasping fatsos, these too-little-too-late artists, they look as though they're running up rising ground, climbing ground. My generation, we started all this. Before, everyone was presumably content to feel like death the whole time. Now they want to feel terrific for ever.

More and more I feel that the people of ill will have used time much more effectively than have the people of good will. We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people.

Timpul în sine este neutru. Åži va trebui s? regret?m pe parcursul acestei generaÅ£ii nu doar cuvintele pline de ur? ÅŸi acÅ£iunile oamenilor r?i, ci ÅŸi t?cerea înfrico??toare a oamenilor buni.

In a time when men are surrendering the high values of the faith you must cling to them, and despite the pressure of an alien generation preserve them for children yet unborn.

Racism is no mere American phenomenon. Its vicious grasp knows no geographical boundaries. In fact, racism and its perennial ally—economic exploitation—provide the key to understanding most of the international complications of this generation.

If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs, and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the plannings, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chains of events, working through generations, and leading to the most outré results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable.

We are indeed a blind race,' wrote a contemporary scientist, 'and the next generation, blind to its own blindness, will be amazed at ours.

We must re-imagine liberty in every generation, especially since a certain number of people are always afraid of it.

clumsy charlatan like Hegel is confidently branded as such? German philosophy is precisely so, laden with contempt, mocked abroad, rejected by honest sciences – like a strumpet who, for filthy lucre, yesterday gave herself up to one, today to another; and the minds of the contemporary generation of scholars are jumbled by Hegelian nonsense: incapable of thought, coarse and stupefied, they become the prey of the vulgar materialism that has crept out of the Basilisk's egg

If we turn from contemplating the world as a whole, and, in particular, the generations of men as they live their little hour of mock-existence and then are swept away in rapid succession; if we turn from this, and look at life in its small details, as presented, say, in a comedy, how ridiculous it all seems!

Si se pudiese castrar a todos los canallas y encerrar en conventos a todas las muchachas tontas, dotar de un harén a todos los hombres de carácter noble, y de verdaderos hombres a todas las muchachas inteligentes y sensatas, pronto nacería una generación que eclipsaría la época de Pericles.

Chi vive tanto da veder passare due o addirittura tre generazioni di uomini si sente come uno spettatore che, durante la fiera, assiste alle esibizioni di saltimbanchi di ogni specie nei loro baracconi, standosene seduto a guardare lo stesso spettacolo per due o tre volte di seguito: i numeri erano studiati per una sola rappresentazione e, una volta scomparse l'illusione e la novità, non fanno più alcun effetto.

The foreign newspapers had dumped the old exotics in favor of the younger generation. The exotics didn't suit the image of the New India—a nuclear power and an emerging destination for international finance. Ustad

Who was he mourning? She didn't know. A whole generation maybe.

assisted living isn't really built for the sake of older people so much as for the sake of their children.

At one time, we might have turned to an old-timer to explain the world. Now we consult Google, and if we have any trouble with the computer we ask a teenager