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“There's a generation now that didn't grow up in nature. Some of these adults are parents and they know that nature is good for their kids but they don't know where to start.”

Knows Kids Grows Parent Growing Up Generations Adults

Author:Richard Louv

“The generation that migrated to the West in the 1970s or 1960s has now lived more in the West than India, and India has changed so much. My parents fall into that category.”

Fall Parent Generations Changed India West Categories 1960s

Author:Archie Panjabi

“Civil rights happened because youth got involved. The youth stood up and helped to break the pattern that their parents had got accustomed to living. The next generation has to take that stand for whatever it is, socially, that they are involved in.”

Next Parent Break Rights Generations Happened Youth Involved Patterns Civil Rights Accustomed Next Generation Stood Up

Author:Octavia Spencer

“I just didn't know where I fit in - I didn't seem to fit in my parent's generation. I didn't seem to fit in my own generation. Little by little, this took me into a spiritual search for understanding; a search for meaning and fulfillment.”

Knows Littles Seems Spiritual Parent Understanding My Own Generations Fit Fulfillment Search For Meaning

Author:Radhanath Swami

“No matter what job you do, we all have a much different life than our parents had. My parents' generation had one job and then they retired. Now, people have many different jobs.”

People Different Matter Jobs Parent Generations No Matter What Retired Different Life Different Jobs

Author:Kate Walsh

“We were the children of white flight, the first generation to grow up in postwar American suburbs. By the time the ’60s rolled around, many of us, the gay ones especially, were eager to make a U-turn and fly back the other way. Whether or not the city was obsolete, we couldn’t imagine our personal futures in any other form. The street and the skyline signified to us what the lawn and the highway signified to our parents: a place to breathe free.”

Way Firsts Children Form Turns Grows Parent White Cities Growing Up Imagine Generations Streets Gay Breathe Flight Highways Obsolete Suburbs Lawns Skylines

Author:Herbert Muschamp

“Successive generations of middle-class parents used to foist their own favourite books on their children. But some time in the late Eighties it began to wane - not because children had lost interest in adorable animals but because most of it was available on useful, pacifying video.”

Children Book Used Lost Parent Interest Animal Class Generations Middle Late Available Video Middle Class Favourite Eighty Adorable Favourite Book

Author:Peter York

“Parents accept their obsolescence with the best grace they can muster. . . they do all they can to make it easy for the younger generation to surpass the older, while secretly dreading the rejection that follows.”

Easy Parent Accepting Grace Generations Rejection Parenthood Younger Generation Muster Obsolescence

Author:Christopher Lasch

“From the sexual, or amatorial, generation of plants new varieties, or improvements, are frequently obtained; as many of the young plants from seeds are dissimilar to the parent, and some of them superior to the parent in the qualities we wish to possess... Sexual reproduction is the chef d'oeuvre, the master-piece of nature.”

Young Science Wish Parent Quality Pieces Generations Masters Evolution Plant Seeds Improvement Superiors Variety Chef Reproduction

Book:The essential writings of Erasmus Darwin

Source: The essential writings of Erasmus Darwin

“Some philosophers have been of opinion that our immortal part acquires during this life certain habits of action or of sentiment, which become forever indissoluble, continuing after death in a future state of existence ... I would apply this ingenious idea to the generation, or production of the embryon, or new animal, which partakes so much of the form and propensities of the parent.”

“I remember as a ranger the first time I stood alone on Inspiration Point over at Canyon Station looking out over this beautiful land. I thought to myself how lucky I was that my parents' and grandparents' generation had the vision and the determination to save it for us. Now it is our turn to make our own gift outright to those who will come after us, 15 years, 40 years, 100 years from now. I want to be as faithful to my grandchildren's generation as Old Faithful has been to ours. What better way can we add a new dimension to our third century of freedom?”

“Feminists of my mother's generation argued that both mom and dad should work a little less and each do some of the household chores. My parents, for example, split everything 50/50. Even though my father is a terrible cook, he still made dinner exactly half the time.”

Should Littles Made Stills Mother Father Parent Half Generations Example Mom Dad Terrible Feminist Dinner Cooks Splits Household Chores Mom And Dad Household Chores

Author:Emily Oster

“Each generation is inclined to educate its young so as to get along in the present world instead of with a view to the proper end of education: the promotion of the best possible realization of humanity as humanity. Parents educate their children so that they may get on; princes educate their subjects as instruments of their own purpose.”

World May Children Ends Young Purpose Humanity Parent Views Generations Subjects Instruments Realization Educate Promotion

Book:Democracy and Education: Top American Authors

Source: Democracy and Education: Top American Authors

“Something else was different when we were young: our parents were outdoors. I’m not saying they were joining health clubs and things of that sort, but they were out of the house, out on the porch, talking to neighbors. As far as physical fitness goes, today’s kids are the sorriest generation in the history of the United States. Their parents may be out jogging, but the kids just aren’t outside.”

May Different States Kids Today Young House Parent United Talking United States Generations Clubs Neighbor Joining Porch Jogging Physical Fitness

Book:Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder

Source: Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder

“I think women of a certain generation, mine in particular, feel like we can have it all because that's what we were fed. It's like, we reap the benefits of the feminist movement - they did all the legwork and now we're going to try to be parents and successful business people and great wives and good friends and take a cooking class and blah, blah, blah.”

“Women will only have true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation.”

“Children must be free to think in all directions irrespective of the peculiar ideas of parents who often seal their children's minds with preconceived prejudices and false concepts of past generations. Unless we are very careful, very careful indeed, and very conscientious, there is still great danger that our children may turn out to be the same kind of people we are.”

People Thinking Mind Kind May Children Stills Ideas Past Turns Parent Generations Danger Concepts Prejudice Our Children Careful Peculiar Seals Past Generations

Author:Brock Chisholm

“Apple has struck a cultural nerve, especially with Generation X and Gen Y, while Windows and PC are viewed in essence as 'My parents' computer'.”

Parent Generations Computer Window Essence Apples Nerves Generation X

Author:Tim Bajarin

“My parents joined in the 60s and at that time it was really important - there was a group mentality. I could be pulling this out of my ass, but I feel our generation approaches things on a more individual basis, like we're more personal and don't need to be a part of a group.”

Needs Feels Important Individual Parent Generations Groups Approach Bases Ass Mentality Pulling Our Generation

Author:Taraka Larson

“I'm first generation American, and my parents were both from Nigeria. And so I always say that I'm literally an African American. So my last name is Famuyiwa, it's different. And so that was a part of my experience from people not being able to pronounce it to not sort of having sort of a shared, common history with a lot of the kids that I was growing up with because my parents were from Africa.”

People Firsts Different Kids Able Lasts Names Parent Common Growing Up Growing Generations African American Nigeria

Author:Terry Gross

“With our parents we bury our past, with our children our future.”

Children Past Parent Generations Our Children Our Future Our Past Future Generation

Author:Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

“It has always been my belief that children inherit the suppressed tendencies of their parents. A clergyman's son frequently shows abnormal tastes for the pleasures that his father denied himself.”

Children Shows Father Belief Parent Pleasure Generations Son Taste Tendencies Denial Denied Abnormal Clergymen

Book:The Story of a Literary Career

Source: The Story of a Literary Career

“If there's a single message passed down from each generation of American parents to their children, it is a two-word line: Better Yourself. And if there's a temple of self-betterment in each town, it is the local school. We have worshipped there for some time.”

Ifs Children Two Self School Parent Lines Education Generations Messages Towns Locals Temples Betterment Better Yourself

Book:At Large

Source: At Large

“Isn't it our job to be appalled by our parents? Isn't it every generation's duty to be dismayed by the previous generation? And to assert that we are different - only to discover later that we are distressingly the same?”

Different Jobs Parent Generations Duty Dismayed Previous Generations

Author:Erica Jong

“Parents and children cannot be to each other, as husbands with wives and wives with husbands. Nature has separated them by an almost impassable barrier of time; the mind and the heart are in quite a different state at fifteen and forty.”

Mind Heart Children Different States Parent Wife Generations Husband Forty Barriers Fifteen Children And Parents

Book:Memoir and Letters

Source: Memoir and Letters

“Parents and children were put on earth to give each other grief. You were my punishment for how I behaved to my own father. And I'll have my revenge when you have children of your own.”

Giving Children Earth Father Parent My Own Grief Generations Revenge Punishment Children And Parents

Book:The Wild Child

Source: The Wild Child

“There may never be a baby book that offers the conclusive answer to every question, but it's possible to extract some wisdom from the suffering of past generations of parents. Does the book you're reading contradict itself repeatedly, require you to override all your parental instincts, or send you into a panic over your own inadequacy? If so, burn it.”

Ifs May Doe Book Past Suffering Reading Parent Answers Generations Baby Offers Instinct Over You Panic Parental Inadequacy Past Generations

Author:Libby Copeland

“My parents always went to rallies and demonstrated against certain things; my generation, we often have a political conscience, but we're not that involved.”

Political Certain Parent Generations Involved Conscience My Generation

Author:Daniel Bruhl

“My parents, products of the Great Depression, were successful people, but lived in a state of constant fear that my sister and I, and they, would sink into the kind of economic insecurity that their generation knew so well.”

People Wells Kind States Parent Successful Generations Economic Products Constant Insecurity My Sister Successful People Great Depression Insecurity And Fear

Author:Ben Stein

“each generation devises better ways to survive. Civilization may, in one sense, be a tribute to the ingeniousness of some children in outwitting parents.”

Way May Children Parent Generations Civilization Survival Better Ways Tribute Outwitting

Author:Lucy Freeman

“My parents' generation's benchmark was simple: Fat Equals Bad.”

Parent Simple Generations Fats

Author:Arabella Weir

“We hear a great deal about the rudeness of the rising generation. I am an oldster myself and might be expected to take the oldsters' side, but in fact I have been far more impressed by the bad manners of parents to children than by those of children to parents.”

Children Has Beens Facts Might Parent Sides Deals Generations Expected Manners Rising Impressed Rudeness Parent Child Bad Manners

Book:The Four Loves

Source: The Four Loves

“I want to create the airplane that flies in the rarified atmosphere of Mars. This is what galvanizes a generation to want to become scientists and engineers in the first place, not we need a scientist to develop a plane that's 20 percent more fuel-efficient than the one your parents flew.”

Want Needs Firsts Parent Generations Percent Scientist Planes Atmosphere Fuel Efficient Airplane Engineers Mars Flew Scientists And Engineers

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“Our audience is young and vibrant; we retain our previous following; we are three generations into it. Unlike other bands that are very demographically specific, who they appeal to and who their fans are, we're the antithesis of that. If you see your younger brother or a parent of yours or a neighbor at most rock concerts, that's not cool but with us and kids, it's a tribal gathering. Whether it's kids or neighbors - they're all part of a secret society.”

“When a child becomes an adult . . . the elders are fearful. And for good reason . . . not we but they are the germinators of future generations. Will they leave us behind as we did our parents? Consign us to neatly paved retirement villages? Trample us in the dust as they go flying out to their new galaxies? We had better tie them down, flagellate them, isolate them in the family cocoon, . . . indoctrinate them into the tribal laws and make sure they kneel before the power of the elders.”

Children Reason Law Parent Behinds Generations Adults Flying Dust Ties Village Retirement Fearful Adolescence Galaxy Elders Future Generation Cocoons

Author:Louise J. Kaplan

“The legacies that parents and church and teachers left to my generation of Black children were priceless but not material: a living faith reflected in daily service, the discipline of hard work and stick-to-itiveness, and a capacity to struggle in the face of adversity.”

“In colonial America, the father was the primary parent. . . . Over the past two hundred years, each generation of fathers has hadless authority than the last. . . . Masculinity ceased to be defined in terms of domestic involvement, skills at fathering and husbanding, but began to be defined in terms of making money. Men had to leave home to work. They stopped doing all the things they used to do.”

Men Years Two Home Lasts America Past Used Father Parent Term Generations Skills Authority Hundred Defined Primaries Making Money Masculinity Involvement Over The Past Fathering

Author:Frank Pittman

“Although my parents have never been the kind to hint around about grandchildren, I can think of no better tribute to them than giving them some.... I can't help thinking that the cycle is not complete until I can introduce them to a child of their child. And I can think of no better comfort when they are gone than to know that something of them lives on, not only in me but in my children.”

Thinking Knows Giving Kind Children I Can Helping Parent Gone Generations Comfort My Children Cycles Introducing Grandchildren Hints Tribute

Author:Anne Cassidy

“Rather than accepting the drifting separation of the generations, we might begin to define a more complex and interesting set of life stages and parenting passages, each emphasizing the connections to the generations ahead and behind. As I grow older, for example, I might first see my role as a parent in need of older, mentoring parents, and then become a mentoring parent myself. When I become a grandparent, I might expect to seek out older mentoring grandparents, and then later become a mentoring grandparent.”

Needs Firsts Might Grows Parent Interesting Behinds Accepting Roles Generations Stage Example Connections Complexes Separation Passages Grandparent Drifting Mentoring

Book:Childhood's Future

Source: Childhood's Future

“Mothers have not always had the most important role in their children's upbringing, when they had other economic roles to play. Inpast centuries, fathers were the key parent in the upbringing of the next generation, because moral training, not emotional sensitivity, was thought to be central to successful child-rearing. Mothers were thought to corrupt their little ones with too much affection and not enough stern training.”

“We no longer just take religious identity from our parents, so what's going on? Why are people going to this series, why are people reading so many books about religion? It's because they want answers. The answers are no longer just passed down from generation to generation. It's harder for people. In effect, you have to roll up your sleeve and ask the questions. But if you do it, if you forge your own identity, it can be much more personal and much more meaningful to you.”

People Ifs Want Book Reading Asks Parent Religious Answers Generations Effects Identity Harder Series Meaningful Sleeves Religious Identity

Author:Bruce Feiler

“I don't think women can have it all. I just don't think so...My husband and I have been married for 34 years, and we have two daughters. And every day you have to make a decision about whether you are going to be a wife or a mother. In fact, many times during the day you have to make those decisions...We co-opted our families to help us. We plan our lives meticulously so we can be decent parents. But if you ask our daughters, I'm not sure they will say that I've been a good mom.”

“A "snapshot" feature in USA Today listed the five greatest concerns parents and teachers had about children in the '50s: talking out of turn, chewing gum in class, doing homework, stepping out of line, cleaning their rooms. Then it listed the five top concerns of parents today: drug addiction, teenage pregnancy, suicide and homicide, gang violence, anorexia and bulimia. We can also add AIDS, poverty, and homelessness. . . . Between my own childhood and the advent of my motherhood--one short generation--the culture had gone completely mad.”

“Children and old people and the parents in between should be able to live together, in order to learn how to die with grace, together. And I fear that this is purely utopian fantasy.”

People Should Children Able Together Death Order Dies Parent Family Fantasy Grace Generations Dying Old People Utopian

Author:M. F. K. Fisher

“when we are young our parents run our life; when we get older, our children do.”

Children Running Young Parent Our Lives Generations Our Children

Book:I know what I'm worth

Source: I know what I'm worth

“Within forty years of their arrival in the Plymouth colony, the first white settlers were afraid their children had lost the dedication and religious conviction of the founding generation. Ever since, Americans have looked to the next generation not only with love and solicitude but with a good measure of anxiety, worrying whether they themselves were good parents, fearful that their children would not turn out well.”

Source: All Our Children: The American Family Under Pressure

“It is misleading to discuss recent changes in family life without emphasizing the fact that for generations some Americans have had to raise children under particularly appalling pressures. Although much of what is worrying American parents is shared by them all, the most grievous problems are those that especially afflict a large minority--the poor, the nonwhite and, in various ways, the parents of handicapped children.”

Way Children Facts Problem Parent Poor Worry Generations Pressure Raises Various Minorities Family Life Mislead Handicapped

Book:All Our Children: The American Family Under Pressure

Source: All Our Children: The American Family Under Pressure

“You'll never be a perfect parent, but you can be a praying parent. Prayer is your highest privilege as a parent. ...Prayer turns ordinary parents into prophets who shape the destinies of their children, grandchildren, and every generation that follows. ...Your prayers for your children are the greatest legacy you can leave.”

Children Turns Parent Prayer Perfect Destiny Generations Praying Shapes Highest Ordinary Our Children Privilege Legacy Your Children Prophet Grandchildren Our Prayers Perfect Parents

Author:Mark Batterson

“Being president means leaving one's name in the history book of which few men are authors. It is my fortune to be blessed with a proud name, one that parents will employ for generations to instill the values of honesty, independence, and above all, courage in their sons.”

Men Mean Book Values Names Parent President Generations Honesty Son Proud Independence Blessed Fortune Leaving Instill History Books Being Blessed

Author:Grover Cleveland

“Schulz told lies in German, and it's unfortunate someone can speak German in this house, but it is our responsibility to stand up against it - the generation of Schulz's parents and the generation of the Arab MKs' parents collaborated to destroy the Jews. (on European Parliament President Martin Schulz)”

Lying House Speak Parent President Responsibility Generations Jew Unfortunate Parliament

Author:Uri Orbach

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