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  • ... the generation of the 20’s was truly secular in that it still knew its theology and its... More
  • ... the task of youth is not only its own salvation but the salvation of those against whom it... More
  • ... there are some who, believing that all is for the best in the best of possible worlds, and... More
  • A man’s liberal and conservative phases seem to follow each other in a succession of waves from... More
  • After us they’ll fly in hot air balloons, coat styles will change, perhaps they’ll discover a... More
  • All of you young people who served in the war. You are a lost generation.... You have no respect... More
  • All the world’s a stage,
    And all the men and women merely players.
    They have their... More
  • Although my parents have never been the kind to hint around about grandchildren, I can think of... More
  • Another appealing aspect to having grandparents is that they do help, to give [your child] a... More
  • As St. Peter’s church was built in great part of the ruins of old Rome, so in all our... More
  • By the year 2020, the year of perfect vision, the old will outnumber the young. More
  • Children and old people and the parents in between should be able to live together, in order to... More
  • Come mothers and fathers
    Throughout the land
    And don’t criticize
    What you can’t... More
  • Eighteen might look at thirty-four through a rising mist of adolescence; but twenty-two would see... More
  • Every constitution..., and every law, naturally expires at the end of 19 years [a generation]. If... More
  • Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers. More
  • From the earliest times the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser than they, and... More
  • Generations have trod, have trod, have trod;
    And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared... More
  • I avoid talking before the youth of the age as I would dancing before them: for if one’s tongue... More
  • I have overlived the generation with which mutual labors & perils begat mutual confidence and... More
  • I realized how for all of us who came of age in the late sixties and early seventies the war was... More
  • I set out on this ground, which I suppose to be self evident, “that the earth belongs in... More
  • I suppose you think that persons who are as old as your father and myself are always thinking... More
  • If the older generation are not upright, the young will not respect them. More
  • In the planning and designing of new communities, housing projects, and urban renewal, the... More
  • In their sympathies, children feel nearer animals than adults. They frolic with animals, caress... More
  • In time of war you know much more what children feel than in time of peace, not that children... More
  • In two or three hundred years life on earth will be unimaginably beautiful, astounding. Man needs... More
  • It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one’s generation. More
  • It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled... More
  • It was no wonder that her sons stood tall and straight. She was a rich mine of life, like the... More
  • I’m right here to tell you, mister. There ain’t nobody gonna push me off my land. My grandpa... More
  • Lars Jorgensen: It’s this country killed my boy. Yes, by golly, I tell you Ethan—
    Mrs.... More
  • MAMA: Son—how come you talk so much ‘bout money?
    WALTER: Because it is life,... More
  • My generation had Doris Day as a role model, then Gloria Steinem—then Princess Diana. We are... More
  • Nothing ... is so ungrateful as a rising generation; yet, if there is any faintest glimmer of... More
  • Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation. More
  • O Father we welcome your words,
    And we will take heart for the future,
    Remembering the past. More
  • One generation abandons the enterprises of another like stranded vessels. More
  • One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever. The... More
  • One generation plants the trees under which another takes its ease. More
  • Our fathers had their dreams; we have ours; the generation that follows will have its own.... More
  • Our tastes greatly alter. The lad does not care for the child’s rattle, and the old man does... More
  • People try to put us down
    (Talkin’ ‘bout my generation)
    Just because we get... More
  • Somewhere between a third and a quarter of all people living in America today were born between... More
  • That way of life against which my generation rebelled had given us grim courage, fortitude,... More
  • The danger lies in forgetting what we had. The flow between generations becomes a trickle,... More
  • The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young. More
  • The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly... More
  • The generations of men run on in the tide of time,
    But leave their destined lineaments... More
  • The glory of each generation is to make its own precedents. More
  • The longer I live the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not... More
  • The next generation of women will enter a world in which they are perceived to have more... More
  • The old believe everything; the middle-aged suspect everything; the young know everything. More
  • The old know what they want; the young are sad and bewildered. More
  • The young ... look into visages dull-eyed, long-toothed, wattle-necked, and chop-fallen,... More
  • There are two barriers that often prevent communication between the young and their elders. The... More
  • There is singularly nothing that makes a difference a difference in beginning and in the middle... More
  • Think about the pressure to “pass” by lying about one’s age ... that familiar temptation to... More
  • Those who come a hundred or two hundred years after us will despise us for having lived our lives... More
  • Time is made up of various ages; and each thinks its own a novelty. More
  • Twenty can’t be expected to tolerate sixty in all things, and sixty gets bored stiff with... More
  • We go to great pains to alter life for the happiness of our descendants and our descendants will... More
  • We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free of their authority. More
  • We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority,... More
  • What seems to us serious, significant and important will, in future times, be forgotten or... More
  • When a generation watches the young ones, their future, their responsibility, grow up, and when... More
  • Why should the generations overlap one another at all? Why cannot we be buried as eggs in neat... More
  • Within forty years of their arrival in the Plymouth colony, the first white settlers were afraid... More
  • Women born at the turn of the century have been conditioned not to speak openly of their wedding... More

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