Browse 69 quotes about Generation Gap.
“The cigar has been smoked out, and we are the ashes.”
Source: Barchester Towers
“The rules for raising children had gone out with her parents generation of daughters who had lived as Lucy had, in patient silence, acting by standards which had lasted generations, waiting to grow up to make their decisions, following the patterns of their own lives.”
Source: You Are the Love of My Life
“Sorry to tell you, but that's a very old chestnut. My mother used to say when God slams a door on you, he opens a window.'
Tig gave this two seconds of respectful consideration before rejecting it. 'No, that's not the same. I'm saying when God slams a door on you it's probably a shitstorm. You're going to end up in rubble. But it's okay because without all that crap overhead, you're standing in the daylight.'
'Without a roof over your head, it kind of feels like you might die.'
'Yeah, but you might not. For sure you won't find your way out of the mess if you keep picking up bricks and stuffing them in your pockets. What you have to do is look for blue sky.”
Source: Unsheltered
“This is what you get. To work in a nice place with a few interesting people, to have friends with whom to discuss life and ideas. To attend the theatre, to hear live music, to arrange the use of the studio room on Monday nights for the local philosophy reading group. Oh, Kierkegaard, that'll be interesting. To exercise once again, for a little time, who knows how long, the power to charm and fascinate, to be the object of an intense and searching desire. And to feel inside herself the reciprocating force of desire, this is what she gets, a life of her own.”
Source: Intermezzo
“We realized that the version of the world [our parents] rendered for us was not the world they really believed in, and that for all their caretaking and bitching about crabgrass they didn't give a damn about lawns.”
Source: The Virgin Suicides
“Tak długo byliście antykonformistami, aż wreszcie upadły ostatnie normy, przeciw którym można się było jeszcze buntować. Dla mnie nie zostawiliście już nic, nic! Brak norm stał się waszą normą. A ja mogę się buntować tylko przeciw wam, czyli przeciwko waszemu rozpasaniu.”
Source: Tango
“To shatter the chains of the past, grant your children the sacred space to speak their truths, even when those truths wound. For in that vulnerability lies the power to rewrite the narrative, a balm for ancestral sorrows.”
“The younger generation should always learn from the older — even if only from their mistakes.”
“America isn't breaking apart at the seams. The American dream isn't dying. Our new racial and ethnic complexion hasn't triggered massive outbreaks of intolerance. Our generations aren't at each other's throats. They're living more interdependently than at any time in recent memory, because that turns out to be a good coping strategy in hard times. Our nation faces huge challenges, no doubt. So do the rest of the world's aging economic powers. If you had to pick a nation with the right stuff to ride out the coming demographic storm, you'd be crazy not to choose America, warts and all.”
Source: The Next America: Boomers, Millennials, and the Looming Generational Showdown
“What do you glean from these intergenerational (older and younger) relationships?”
Source: Conscious Cures: Soulutions to 21st Century Pandemics
“What someone may lack in talent can be more than made up for in self-motivation, self-direction, and follow-through.”
Source: Becoming Generation Flux: Why Traditional Career Planning is Dead: How to be Agile, Adapt to Ambiguity, and Develop Resilience
“Do you want a level of income to fit your lifestyle or a lifestyle to fit your income level?”
Source: Becoming Generation Flux: Why Traditional Career Planning is Dead: How to be Agile, Adapt to Ambiguity, and Develop Resilience
“I am suggesting that we don’t put the “income” cart before the “contentment” horse.”
Source: Becoming Generation Flux: Why Traditional Career Planning is Dead: How to be Agile, Adapt to Ambiguity, and Develop Resilience
“Labor saving devices have destroyed many jobs but have given rise to many new ones. It simply is up to us if we are going to resist or embrace the future.”
Source: Becoming Generation Flux: Why Traditional Career Planning is Dead: How to be Agile, Adapt to Ambiguity, and Develop Resilience
“The construct of retirement is dubious at best and a farce at worst. Expectations contrary to this are to be dashed.”
Source: Becoming Generation Flux: Why Traditional Career Planning is Dead: How to be Agile, Adapt to Ambiguity, and Develop Resilience
“Adaptability is the name of the game; if you understand that you must now be adaptable and flexible, you will find a way to succeed in your career. If not, you will succumb to job market pressures.”
Source: Becoming Generation Flux: Why Traditional Career Planning is Dead: How to be Agile, Adapt to Ambiguity, and Develop Resilience
“In the name of all that is holy, please consider the wages of a particular profession before you select that degree plan.”
Source: Becoming Generation Flux: Why Traditional Career Planning is Dead: How to be Agile, Adapt to Ambiguity, and Develop Resilience
“Whereas previous generations had to face some unpredictability, current generations are facing unprecedented levels of instability.”
Source: Becoming Generation Flux: Why Traditional Career Planning is Dead: How to be Agile, Adapt to Ambiguity, and Develop Resilience
“Finding a job that is a good fit is as much about you selecting the right company as it is about them selecting the right candidate.”
Source: Becoming Generation Flux: Why Traditional Career Planning is Dead: How to be Agile, Adapt to Ambiguity, and Develop Resilience
“Can’t we do better with Applicant Tracking System (ATS) software?”
Source: Becoming Generation Flux: Why Traditional Career Planning is Dead: How to be Agile, Adapt to Ambiguity, and Develop Resilience
“When presented with an open door in your job, drive a Mack truck through it.”
Source: Becoming Generation Flux: Why Traditional Career Planning is Dead: How to be Agile, Adapt to Ambiguity, and Develop Resilience
“There remains a natural career progression even though the tougher job climate seeks to delay it.”
Source: Becoming Generation Flux: Why Traditional Career Planning is Dead: How to be Agile, Adapt to Ambiguity, and Develop Resilience
“Our career mantra should be learn, relearn, repeat.”
Source: Becoming Generation Flux: Why Traditional Career Planning is Dead: How to be Agile, Adapt to Ambiguity, and Develop Resilience
“We don’t deserve our job. Period.”
Source: Becoming Generation Flux: Why Traditional Career Planning is Dead: How to be Agile, Adapt to Ambiguity, and Develop Resilience
“The surest way to ensure career extinction is to resist change and adaptation.”
Source: Becoming Generation Flux: Why Traditional Career Planning is Dead: How to be Agile, Adapt to Ambiguity, and Develop Resilience
“Everyone is dispensable but some are more dispensable than others.”
Source: Becoming Generation Flux: Why Traditional Career Planning is Dead: How to be Agile, Adapt to Ambiguity, and Develop Resilience
“But a generation that knows only how to travel — can they teach a generation how to arrive?”
Source: The Birthday of the World and Other Stories
“A generation has more in common, after all, than a nation, than a profession.”
Source: I Will Bear Witness 1942-45 A Diary of the Nazi Years
“Muista poika, että tämän päivän kapinallinen on huomispäivän pieru”
Source: Nyrok city kokoelma
“Love shapes who you are in many ways. Its presence or absence in our youth impacts our adulthood, which impacts our future generations; the cycle has to be restarted somewhere.”
Source: Osama's Jihad
“To all the therapists, psychologists, all the way to the appointment setters; thank you giving your time and energy to help.
Even if you don't have it all together, you show up. I only got to this point where I could write about my recovery because of you.
Thank you for the gift of life!”
Source: THE MAP : A Lived Guide to Recovery
“Didn’t young people care what the generation before them had achieved? And if not, why had everyone gone through those grim difficult wartime years?”
Source: British Bulldog
“You're not content in your position as a factory owner and a rich heiress, you don't believe in your right to it, and now you can't sleep, which, of course, is certainly better than if you were content, slept soundly, and thought everything was fine. Your insomnia is respectable; in any event, it's a good sign. In fact, for our parents such a conversation as we're having now would have been unthinkable; they didn't talk at night, they slept soundly, but we, our generation, sleep badly, are anguished, talk a lot, and keep trying to decide if we're right or not.
- A Medical Case”
Source: Selected Stories of Anton Chekhov
“27. So often, we go through our battles in private. As it was with me and with many of the women in my generation. We were taught and reared and molded to keep that stiff upper lip and to never explain in public how deeply some people have hurt us. I cannot get away from that mold. I am comfortable in it. I derive my sanity from it.”
“We have been cut off, the past has been ended and the family has broken up and the present is adrift in its wheelchair. ... That is no gap between the generations, that is a gulf. The elements have changed, there are whole new orders of magnitude and kind. [...]
My grandparents had to live their way out of one world and into another, or into several others, making new out of old the way corals live their reef upward. I am on my grandparents' side. I believe in Time, as they did, and in the life chronological rather than in the life existential. We live in time and through it, we build our huts in its ruins, or used to, and we cannot afford all these abandonings.”
Source: Angle of Repose
“The young, no doubt, make mistakes; but the old, when they try to think for them, make even greater mistakes.”
Source: Mortals and Others: American Essays 1931-35
“This war has already stretched the generation gap so wide that it threatens to pull the country apart.”
“We didn't have a generation gap, we had a generation Grand Canyon.”
“Only God Forgives was very much a generation gap in a way. It was all the youth of the world that embraced it. I make films for young people. That's what I will continue to do.”
“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.”
Source: Quiet Moments for Women: A Daily Devotional
“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.”
Source: The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence and Papers, 1816-1826
“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.”
“An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.”
“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.”
“Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.”
Source: A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles
“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.”
“Mine is the first generation able to contemplate the possibility that we may live our entire lives without going to war or sending our children to war.”
“Nothing is more singular about this generation than its addiction to music.”
Source: Closing of the American Mind
“The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap.”
Source: Frankly speaking: a collection of extraordinary speeches
“It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.”
Source: Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces