Generation Gap Quotes

• Every generation needs a new revolution.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Change, Famous Inspirational, Needs

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• A generation which ignores history has no past — and no future.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Future, Past, History

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.223, Penguin

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• Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.

  Lewis Mumford

  Family, Father, Grandmother

  The Brown Decades ch. 1 (1931)

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• A father must lead his children; but first he must learn to follow. He must laugh with them but remember the ache of childhood tears. He must hold the past with one hand and reach to the future with the other so there can be no generation gap in family love.

  June Masters Bacher

  Children, Father, Past

  June Masters Bacher (1979). “Quiet Moments for Women: A Daily Devotional”, Harvest House Pub

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• The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap.

  Spiro T. Agnew

  Past, Gaps, Generations

  Spiro T. Agnew (1970). “Frankly speaking: a collection of extraordinary speeches”

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• Every generation needs regeneration

  Charles Spurgeon

  Needs, Generations, Regeneration

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• Every old man complains of the growing depravity of the world, of the petulance and insolence of the rising generation.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Age, Complaining

  Samuel Johnson (1820). “The Rambler”, p.266

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• We didn't have a generation gap, we had a generation Grand Canyon.

  Mary Brave Bird

  Generations, Gaps, Canyons

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• I think there's a gigantic generation gap in terms of how people understand the Internet and how much they think technology is an important factor in social change.

  Alex Steffen

  Technology, Thinking, People

  Interview, edition.cnn.com. March 11, 2008.

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• It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous.

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Ignorance, Glowing, Doe

  Charles Dudley Warner (1873). “Backlog Studies”, p.28

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• If I were given the opportunity to present a gift to the next generation, it would be the ability for each individual to learn to laugh at himself.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Inspirational, Funny, Laughter

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• Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.

  Henrik Tikkanen

  Time, Future, Kids

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• I care about our young people, and I wish them great success, because they are our Hope for the Future, and some day, when my generation retires, they will have to pay us trillions of dollars in social security

  Dave Barry

  People, Wish, Dollars

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• Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Life, Happy

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• Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.

  Thomas Sowell

  Civilization, Generations, Too Late

  Thomas Sowell (2007). “A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles”, p.108, Hachette UK

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• I really have a generation gap about modern clothes.

  Julie Harris

  Clothes, Generations, Gaps

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• In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility - I welcome it.

  John F. Kennedy

  Freedom, Responsibility, Long

  Inaugural Address, 20 Jan. 1961

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• I see no hope for the future of our people if they are dependent on the frivolous youth of today, for certainly all youth are reckless beyond words. When I was a boy, we were taught to be discrete and respectful of elders, but the present youth are exceedingly wise and impatient of restraint.

  Hesiod

  Wise, Patience, Hope

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• Maybe you are the "cool" generation. If coolness means a capacity to stay calm and use your head in the service of ends passionately believed in, then it has my admiration.

  Kingman Brewster, Jr.

  Mean, Stay Calm, Generations

  Baccalaureate address as President of Yale, June 12, 1966.

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• Nothing is more singular about this generation than its addiction to music.

  Allan Bloom

  Addiction, This Generation, Generations

  Allan Bloom (2008). “Closing of the American Mind”, p.68, Simon and Schuster

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• It is my firm belief that I have a link with the past and a responsibility to the future. I cannot give up. I cannot despair. There's a whole future, generations to come. I have to keep trying.

  King Hussein I

  Giving Up, Future, Responsibility

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• Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.

  Bill Cosby

  Family, Music, Children

  Bill Cosby (1987). “Fatherhood”, Berkley Publishing Group

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• Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Wise, Reading, Book

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.69, Graphic Arts Books

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• This war has already stretched the generation gap so wide that it threatens to pull the country apart.

  Frank Church

  Country, War, Generations

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• It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Wisdom, War, Government Debt

  Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence and Papers, 1816-1826”, p.184, Cosimo, Inc.

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