Best Generation Gap Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 2

“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.”

Source: Time Enough for Love

“If you succumb to the temptation of using violence in the struggle, unborn generations will be the recipients of a long and desolate night of bitterness, and your chief legacy to the future will be an endless reign of meaningless chaos.”

“Every generation needs a new revolution.”

Needs Change Generations Youth Revolution Famous Inspirational Generation Gap

Author:Thomas Jefferson

“Think not forever of yourselves, O Chiefs, nor of your own generation. Think of continuing generations of our families, think of our grandchildren and of those yet unborn, whose faces are coming from beneath the ground.”

Thinking Faces Peace Forever Generations Chiefs Our Family Native American Continuing Grandchildren Unborn Generation Gap

Author:T. S. Eliot

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

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

Men World Age Growing Generations Youth Complaining Rising Old Man Depravity Insolence Generation Gap Petulance

Book:The Rambler

Source: The Rambler

“Every generation needs regeneration”

Needs Generations Regeneration Generation Gap

Author:Charles Spurgeon

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

Doe Generations Ignorance Fortunate Ancestor Glowing Generation Gap

Book:Backlog Studies

Source: Backlog Studies

“If our language, our programs, our creations are not strongly present in the new media, the young generation of our country will be economically and culturally marginalized.”

Ifs Country Young Language Generations Media Creation Program Our Country Marginalized New Media Generation Gap Young Generation

Author:Jacques Chirac

“What makes a book great, a so-called classic, it its quality of always being modern, of its author, though he be long dead, continuing to speak to each new generation.”

Long Book Speak Quality Generations Modern Classic Marijuana Continuing New Generation Generation Gap

Book:Bookman's Progress: The Selected Writings of Lawrence Clark Powell

Source: Bookman's Progress: The Selected Writings of Lawrence Clark Powell

“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”

People Care Young Wish Social Pay Generations Security Dollars Retiring I Care Social Security My Generation Great Success Hope For The Future Generation Gap

Author:Dave Barry

“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.”

“To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations - such is a pleasure beyond compare.”

Men Writing Book Reading Pleasure Generations Spread Compare Intimate Unseen Converses Joy Of Reading Generation Gap

Book:Essays in Idleness

Source: Essays in Idleness

“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.”

Ifs Mean Ends Use Generations Capacity Calm Admiration Aeroplanes Coolness Generation Gap Stay Calm

Author:Kingman Brewster, Jr.

“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.”

Children Passion Music Family Generations Clothes Stronger Eight Nine Procrastination Funny Music Generation Gap Music Is Life Passion For Music Music Is My Passion

Book:Fatherhood

Source: Fatherhood

“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.”

“Our generation has an incredible amount of realism, yet at the same time it loves to complain and not really change. Because, if it does change, then it won't have anything to complain about.”

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Author:Tori Amos

“I really have a generation gap about modern clothes.”

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Author:Julie Harris