“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.” WayFirstsChildrenFormTurnsGrowsParentWhiteCitiesGrowing UpImagineGenerationsStreetsGayBreatheFlightHighwaysObsoleteSuburbsLawnsSkylines Author:Herbert Muschamp
“Maybe, generations ago, young people rebelled out of some clear motive, but now, we know we're rebelling. Between teen movies and sex-ed textbooks we're so ready for our rebellious phase we can't help but feel it's safe, contained. It will turn out all right, despite the risk, snug in the shell of rebellion narrative. Rebellion narrative, does that make sense? It was appropriate to do, so we did it.” PeopleKnowsFeelsDoeHelpingYoungTurnsSexClearRiskGenerationsReadySafeDespiteNarrativeMake SenseMotiveAppropriateRebellionPhasesShellsRebelliousTextbooks Author:Daniel Handler
“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?” WayWantYearsFirstsHas BeensInspirationBeautifulRememberTurnsParentVisionGenerationsLandCenturyLuckyFirst TimeDeterminationThirdsAddFaithfulDimensionsStationsGrandparentGrandchildrenBetter WaysRangersCanyonsMy GrandchildrenParents And GrandparentsBeautiful Land Author:Gerald R. Ford
“If education really educates, there will, in time, be more and more citizens who understand that relics of the old West add meaning and value to the new. Youth yet unborn will pole up the Missouri with Lewis and Clark, or climb the Sierras with James Capen Adams, and each generation in turn will ask: Where is the big white bear? It will be a sorry answer to say he went under while conservationists weren't looking.” IfsBigsValuesTurnsAsksWhiteAnswersGenerationsYouthBearsCitizensAddWestSorryClimbsEducateUnbornRelicsSierraMissouriOld WestLewis And Clark Book:A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There Source: A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There
“Literature is at once the cause and the effect of social progress. It deepens our natural sensibilities, and strengthens by exercise our intellectual capacities. It stores up the accumulated experience of the race, connecting Past and Present into a conscious unity; and with this store it feeds successive generations, to be fed in turn by them.” PastTurnsLiteratureSocialCausesNaturalRaceProgressGenerationsEffectsExerciseIntellectualConsciousCapacityUnityStoresFedsSensibilityConnectingPast And PresentSocial Progress Author:George Henry Lewes
“There comes a terrible moment to many souls when the great movements of the world, the larger destinies of mankind, which have lain aloof in newspapers and other neglected reading, enter like an earthquake into their own lives--when the slow urgency of growing generations turns into the tread of an invading army or the dire clash of civil war, and grey fathers know nothing to seek for but the corpses of their blooming sons, and girls forget all vanity to make lint and bandages which may serve for the shattered limbs of their betrothed husbands.” KnowsWorldMayWarSoulMomentsTurnsGirlReadingFatherForgetDestinyGrowingGenerationsMankindMovementSonTerribleHusbandArmyNewspapersVanityCivil WarGreyLimbsNeglectedCorpsesClashEarthquakesUrgencyShatteredBloomingAloofInvadingBandages Book:Daniel Deronda Source: Daniel Deronda
“At this season of the year we draw close to Good Friday. All the eyes of the world will turn back to "a green hill far away, without a city wall," where the founder of Christianity was crucified by those forces of selfishness, greed, and lust for gain that are still at work in the world. It seems to me that unless we do something in Canada about the question of the export of war materials there will be another crucifixion - the crucifixion of a generation of young men, crucified upon a cross of nickel.” MenWorldYearsStillsWarSeemsEyeYoungTurnsForceCitiesChristianityGenerationsMaterialsWallDrawsGainsCrossesSeasonsGreenGreedLustHillsSelfishnessYoung ManCanadaFar AwayFoundersFridayCrucifixionNickelsGood FridayCity WallsGreen Hills Author:Tommy Douglas
“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.” PeopleThinkingMindKindMayChildrenStillsIdeasPastTurnsParentGenerationsDangerConceptsPrejudiceOur ChildrenCarefulPeculiarSealsPast Generations Author:Brock Chisholm
“Entrepreneurship is the cornerstone to African development and the key to local value creation in Africa. I am determined to ensure that Africa's next generation of entrepreneurs have the platform they need to turn their entrepreneurial aspirations into sustainable businesses that will drive economic growth and job creation across Africa.” NeedsJobsValuesTurnsNextGrowthGenerationsEconomicCreationKeysDevelopmentEntrepreneurDeterminedLocalsEntrepreneurshipAspirationPlatformsNext GenerationEconomic GrowthEntrepreneurialCornerstonesJob CreationI Am Determined Author:Tony Elumelu
“When we are young the idea of death or failure is intolerable to us; even the possibility of ridicule we cannot bear. But we have also an unconquerable faith in our own stars, and in the impossibility of anything venturing to go against us. As we grow old we slowly come to believe that everything will turn out badly for us, and that failure is in the nature of things, but then we do not much mind what happens to us one way or the other. In this way a balance is obtained.” WayMindBelieveIdeasHappensYoungTurnsStarsGrowsGenerationsPossibilityYouthBearsBalanceOne WayRidiculeImpossibilityUnconquerable Author:Isak Dinesen
“American foreign policy must be more than the management of crisis. It must have a great and guiding goal: to turn this time of American influence into generations of democratic peace.” TurnsGoalGenerationsInfluencePolicyManagementCrisisDemocraticForeign PolicyAmerican Foreign Policy Author:George W. Bush
“Above all, think of life as a prototype. We can conduct experiments, make discoveries, and change our perspectives. We can look for opportunities to turn processes into projects that have tangible outcomes. We can learn how to take joy in the things we create whether they take the form of a fleeting experience or an heirloom that will last for generations.” ThinkingLooksLastsFormJoyTurnsOpportunityProcessCreativityGenerationsDesignPerspectiveProjectsDiscoveryExperimentsOutcomesFleetingTangiblePrototypeHeirlooms Author:Tim Brown
“Every Day Is for the Thief, by turns funny, mournful, and acerbic, offers a portrait of Nigeria in which anger, perhaps the most natural response to the often lamentable state of affairs there, is somehow muted and deflected by the author's deep engagement with the country: a profoundly disenchanted love. Teju Cole is among the most gifted writers of his generation.” CountryStatesTurnsNaturalGenerationsOffersResponseAffairEngagementThievesGiftedPortraitsNigeriaDisenchantedGifted Writers Author:Salman Rushdie
“I noticed in the late 1990s that my friends and I were already nostalgic for the 1980s, and by the turn of the century, VH1's 'I Love the '80s' gave all of us an accelerated nostalgia for our generation.” TurnsGenerationsCenturyLateMy FriendsNostalgia80sNostalgicOur Generation Author:Ernest Cline
“The present Luddism over genetic engineering may die a natural death as the computer-illiterate generation is superseded.... I fear that, if the green movement's high-amplitude warnings over GMOs turn out to be empty, people will be dangerously disinclined to listen to other and more serious warnings.” PeopleIfsMayDiesTurnsNaturalGenerationsAtheismMovementSeriousComputerEmptyGreenPositive AtheismWarningEngineeringIlliterateGmosGenetic EngineeringNatural DeathGreen Movement Book:A Devil's Chaplain: Selected Writings Source: A Devil's Chaplain: Selected Writings
“It says that alcoholism is a disease, and that it gets passed on from generation to generation. I've told my kids about that: "You've got the crazy gene in you, guys. When it comes time to kick back with the buddies, drink a beer, and watch a football game, just realize that there will be a day when that thing turns on you. So you better keep an eye on it".” EyeKidsGuyTurnsGamesRealizingWatchesGenerationsCrazyFootballDrinkDiseaseBeerKicksGenesAlcoholismBuddyFootball Game Author:Nikki Sixx