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.
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Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky Quotes
That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.
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Adlai E. Stevenson Quotes
In my day, we didn't have self-esteem, we had self-respect, and no more of it than we had earned.
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Jane Haddam Quotes
Generation Gap: A chasm, amorphously situated in time and space, that separates those who have grown up absurd from those who will, with luck, grow up absurd.
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Bernard Rosenberg Quotes
Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn't have anything to do with it.
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Haim Ginott Quotes
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.
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D.H. Lawrence Quotes
There is nothing wrong with today's teenager that twenty years won't cure.
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Author Unknown Quotes
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.
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J.B. Priestly Quotes
People who don't cherish their elderly have forgotten whence they came and whither they go.
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Ramsey Clark Quotes
Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.
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Lewis Mumford Quotes
They say genes skip generations. Maybe that's why grandparents find their grandchildren so likeable.
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Joan McIntosh Quotes
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.
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Susan Sontag Quotes
It's hard for me to get used to these changing times. I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty.
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George Burns Quotes
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.
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Mignon McLaughlin Quotes