Quotes on generations
It's one of nature's way that we often feel closer to distant generations than to the generation immediately preceding us.
Stravinsky, Igor Fyodorovich
In my day, we didn't have self-esteem, we had self-respect, and no more of it than we had earned.
Haddam, Jane
Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn't have anything to do with it.
Ginott, Haim
Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves.
Lawrence, D.H.
There is nothing wrong with today's teenager that twenty years won't cure.
Unknown, Author
There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age - I missed it coming and going.
Priestly, J.B.
People who don't cherish their elderly have forgotten whence they came and whither they go.
Clark, Ramsey
Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.
Mumford, Lewis
They say genes skip generations. Maybe that's why grandparents find their grandchildren so likeable.
McIntosh, Joan
Fewer and fewer Americans possess objects that have a patina, old furniture, grandparents' pots and pans, the used things, warm with generations of human touch, essential to a human landscape. Instead, we have our paper phantoms, transistorized landscapes. A featherweight portable museum.
Sontag, Susan
It's hard for me to get used to these changing times. I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty.
Burns, George
When women feel they have learned to forgive their mothers - and men, their fathers - all it usually means is that they've decided to allow themselves the same kind of behavior.
McLaughlin, Mignon