“I think it's good that [my granddaughter] here because I lost my parents and now it's great that there's a new generation. And she's taught me new things that I've forgotten. Like, when you're on holiday and see what it's like to see a shell or go into the water for the first time.” ThinkingFirstsLostParentWaterGenerationsTaughtFirst TimeForgottenHolidayNew ThingsShellsNew GenerationGranddaughter Author:Carine Roitfeld
“There was a generation of kids who were just kind of emulating distant heroes and wearing peace symbols, and parents who were thinking of themselves as liberal and removed from barbarity, but it also was the era of Vietnam. I very much was influenced - and I think the whole country was kind of in a state of shock - for the first time seeing the horror and cruelty of war.” ThinkingFirstsKindWarCountryStatesWholeKidsParentSeeingGenerationsHeroHorrorFirst TimeCrueltySymbolsErasShockVietnamBarbarity Author:Wes Craven
“I am continually influenced by the feeling that music culture captured in the late 60s - for my generation, it was a time to rebel, against our parents, against everything.” FeelingsCultureParentGenerationsLateRebelCapturedMy GenerationMusic Culture Author:Renzo Rosso
“My parents gave up a lot to bring me up in the little house on the prairie, and I wasn't prepared to make those sacrifices, nor was the generation before me and the generation after.” LittlesHouseParentGenerationsSacrificePreparedGave UpPrairieLittle House On The Prairie Author:Tony Parsons
“I do tend to look back to my parents generation and think wow! what a great way to be, to live with one person for a lifetime, to bring your kids up in these really solid families.” ThinkingWayLooksPersonsKidsParentGenerationsLifetimeWow Author:Tony Parsons
“I think that because of YouTube, because of MySpace, because of the digital domain that we have on the Internet, the younger generation is much more open to information. I think it's so much easier for them to gain information and trade information, and they have become more aware. In some cases, more aware than their own parents and adults, as to what's going on in the world. I find that really intriguing and interesting, and I think there is a brewing of a whole new generation of activists coming.” ThinkingWorldWholeParentInterestingCasesGenerationsInformationInternetEasierAdultsGainsTradeDigitalActivistDomainYoutubeIntriguingNew GenerationYounger GenerationBrewing Author:Serj Tankian
“"A Tale of Three Cities" is a tribute to our parents' generation, who escaped from city to city in search of their loved ones and in search of a place to build a better home. The story is set during the turbulent war years in China in the '40s and '50s.” YearsWarStoriesHomeThreeParentCitiesGenerationsChinaTalesLoved OnesTribute Author:Mabel Cheung
“I have always wanted to make a film about my parents' generation, which tried every way to escape from the deadly shadow of war and finally settled down in Hong Kong in the '50s to build a home from nothing. Arguably, they are the first generation of Hong Kong people to turn this remote island into a modern city.” PeopleWayFirstsWarHomeWantedFilmTurnsParentCitiesGenerationsModernShadowIslandsHong Kong Author:Mabel Cheung
“I felt the calling to serve my country. My parents came to the United States from Mexico and Colombia, and this country treated them well. It gave my sisters and me the opportunity to get an education and succeed. I wanted to repay my country for how they treated my family and ensure that our values and freedom are intact for future generations.” WellsCountryStatesWantedValuesOpportunityFeltParentUnitedUnited StatesGenerationsCallingSucceedMy FamilyTreatedMy SisterMexicoFuture GenerationColombia Author:Ruben Gallego
“The next step is for the great teachers to arise, and for them to clearly understand the challenges ahead and mentor accordingly. Where most generations focus the education of their children on preparing to make a living or succeed financially, leadership generations are taught by parents who see a higher role for their children.” ChildrenNextParentChallengesStepsRolesFocusTeacherGenerationsTaughtHigherSucceedAriseMentorPreparingGreat TeacherNext Steps Author:Oliver DeMille
“If Tao Lin had been born to Gary Shteyngart's parents and spent his early twenties slaving for pageviews at NewYorker.com, he would have written something like this, the Bright Lights, Big City of the click-here-now generation.” IfsBigsLightParentBornCitiesWrittenGenerationsTwentiesTaoClicksGaryBig CitiesBright Lights Author:Gideon Lewis-Kraus
“We hold in our arms the rising generation. They come to this earth with important responsibilities and great spiritual capacities. We cannot be casual in how we prepare them. Our challenge as parents and teachers is not to create a spiritual core in their souls but rather to fan the flame of their spiritual core already aglow with the fire of their premortal faith.” ImportantSoulEarthSpiritualParentChallengesResponsibilityFireTeacherGenerationsFansArmsCapacityCoreFlamesRisingCasualGreat SpiritualParents And Teachers Author:Neil L. Andersen
“'Our parents' generation had it a lot tougher than we did. They had to live through the Depression, World War II, and then they had to, you know, try to pick up the pieces of their lives and bring up their children. And, it was a great example for us. I guess we grew up with a certain amount of the ethics our parents had, which is, you know: work hard, make your own way, be independent.” KnowsWorldWayTryingChildrenWarHardCertainParentPiecesGenerationsExampleHard WorkGrewAmountGrew UpPicksEthicsIndependentWar Of The WorldsWorld War IiWorld War I Author:Billy Joel
“As we all know, we're all highly influenced by the atmosphere that our parents create when we're growing up. And, if we do that the right way, that carries on to the next generation.” IfsKnowsWayNextParentGrowing UpGrowingGenerationsAtmosphereCarrieRight WayNext Generation Author:Alex Kendrick
“The oncoming trouble I speak of is climate change. It's going to affect all of you in the same way the Second World War consumed people of my parent's generation.” PeopleWorldWayWarSpeakParentGenerationsTroubleClimateClimate ChangeWar Of The WorldsConsumedSecond World War Author:Bill Nye
“So, to get to play somebody who was insisting on it, in spite of all the evidence was very liberating and exciting. It went quite deep. I suppose I reference a kindness and humility that I would have seen in my parents' generation, a little bit more than now.” LittlesPlayBitsParentKindnessGenerationsHumilityLittle BitEvidenceExcitingSpiteLiberatingInsisting Author:Brendan Gleeson
“So, yeah, I mean, there is something universal about that feeling - that 20-something, what the hell am I going to do with my life, I'm lost and my parents are freaking me out, and what's the point? Every generation has a way of making that unique, but there are certain universals of that feeling.” WayMeanFeelingsCertainLostParentHellGenerationsUniqueUniversalYeah Author:Zach Braff
“Young people realize that something is amiss. There's a generation that fell in love with their phones, and it's very hard for them to see that there's a problem. But young people are desperate for the attention of their parents, who are really not paying attention to them.” PeopleHardProblemYoungParentRealizingAttentionGenerationsPhonesPay AttentionDesperate Author:Judy Woodruff
“Although their parents died in the wilderness for their stubbornness, Israel could profit from the older generation's failure by remembering that God had used adversity to train them.” RememberUsedParentGenerationsDiedAdversityTrainProfitIsraelWildernessStubbornnessOlder Generation Author:Max Anders
“Mindful consumption is the object of this precept. We are what we consume. If we look deeply into the items that we consume every day, we will come to know our own nature very well. We have to eat, drink, consume, but if we do it unmindfully, we may destroy our bodies and our consciousness, showing ingratitude toward our ancestors, our parents, and future generations.” IfsKnowsWellsLooksMayBodyParentConsciousnessGenerationsObjectsDrinkAncestorConsumptionItemsFuture GenerationIngratitude Author:Nhat Hanh
“My generation didn`t face the kind of urgent, pressing issues that my parents did, who fought through a war and a Depression and know what suffering is. That`s why Bob Dole had a tough time with this electorate. He was an old-fashioned curmudgeon who knew about sacrifice, and we didn`t know if we could live up to his standards. But we knew we could live up to Bill Clinton`s. He`s more like one of us.” IfsKnowsKindWarFacesSufferingParentIssuesGenerationsSacrificeStandardsToughBillsClintonBobOld FashionedUrgentTough TimesMy GenerationElectorateCurmudgeon Author:Bill Maher
“Think about it. Right now, a whole generation of young (customers) in the United States has been brought up to take computers for granted. Pointing a mouse is no more mysterious to them than hitting the "on" button on the television is to their parents.” ThinkingHas BeensStatesWholeYoungParentUnitedUnited StatesGenerationsTelevisionRight NowComputerCustomersMysteriousGrantedHittingButtonsMicePointing Author:Andy Grove
“Well, I didn't feel that I could do justice to this story of my parents and their generation, and all that they did to make it possible for me to be who I am, if I sort of just put it at the beginning of a book about my last eight years in foreign policy.” IfsFeelsYearsWellsBookStoriesLastsParentJusticeGenerationsPolicyEightWho I AmForeign Policy Author:Condoleezza Rice