Generations Quotations

Unknown Author

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There is nothing wrong with today's teenager that twenty years won't cure.

- Unknown Author

George Burns

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It's hard for me to get used to these changing times. I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty.

- George Burns

Clarence Darrow

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The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.

- Clarence Darrow

Benjamin Disraeli

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A man who is not a Liberal at sixteen has no heart; a man who is not a Conservative at sixty has no head.

- Benjamin Disraeli

Haim G. Ginott

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Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn't have anything to do with it.

- Haim G. Ginott

D.H. Lawrence

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Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves.

- D.H. Lawrence

Mignon McLaughlin

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When women feel they have learned to forgive their mothers - and men, their fathers - all it usually means is that they've decided to allow themselves the same kind of behavior.

- Mignon McLaughlin

Lewis Mumford

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

- Lewis Mumford

J.B. Priestley

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There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age - I missed it coming and going.

- J.B. Priestley

Adlai E. Stevenson

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That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.

- Adlai E. Stevenson