822 Quotes About Generations

We stayed huddled that way until the early hours of the morning. The shootings and explosions had lasted less than an hour, but they had frightened us badly, because none of us had ever heard gunshots in the streets. They were foreign sounds to us then. The generation of Afghan children whose ears would know nothing but the sounds of bombs and gunfire was not yet born...

I feel like we [americans] are a unique nation in this world, in that we are able to implement great change in our society over a relatively short period of time. What takes centuries in Europe, we accomplish in a generation.

The fathers who contrived and passed the Consititution were wise in their generation; as time passes, we come more and more to realize their powers of divination.

I am living with a rising generation which talks like people coming out of ether.

As George Orwell wisely observed a generation later, the only way swiftly to end a war is to lose it.

I want to be the greatest investigative reporter of my generation.

One picture in ten thousand, perhaps, ought to live in the applause of mankind, from generation to generation until the colors fade and blacken out of sight or the canvas rot entirely away.

As patients and consumers, we are better informed today about our health care than any previous generation.

The World War II generation believed the United States could do anything - anything... And Vietnam was a shattering experience for everyone.