822 Quotes About Generations

We have a complex system of government. You have to teach it to every generation.

Messages about money are passed down from generation to generation, worn and chipped like the family dishes.

You know, I'm part of that first MTV generation.

In every generation there has to be some fool who will speak the truth as he sees it.

We are a generation of men raised by women. I'm beginning to wonder if another woman is what we really need.

What has been forgotten is that there were major intellectual breakthroughs in the 1960s, thanks to North American writers of an older generation. There was a rupture in continuity, since most young people influenced by those breakthroughs did not enter the professions.

My generation of the Sixties, with all our great ideals, destroyed liberalism, because of our excesses.

The problems that agitate one generation are exstinguished for the next, not because they have been solved but because the general lack of interest sweeps them away.

A work settles nothing, just as the labor of a whole generation settles nothing. Sons, and the morrow, always start afresh.