Top 93 Quotes About Generational
#1. This is not class warfare, this is generational warfare. This administration and old wealthy people have declared war on young people. That is the real war that is going on here. And that is the war we've got to talk about.
James Carville
#2. Having not really written any generational songs - I think maybe two or three of the songs that I've ever written have any bearing on the age of the listener. My stuff tends to be far more concerned with the spiritual and with subjects like isolation and being miserable.
David Bowie
#3. My father told me abuse is generational.
Glenn Beck
#4. The open-minded pursuit of an educated life has the power to slay generational ignorance
Simon Boylan
#5. The subtle generational cues that make one thing cool and another uncool aren't always obvious to a parent. My children are my dinner-table sounding board. I've come up with some wonderful ideas that they universally dismissed as 'lame.'
Nolan Bushnell
#6. Cross-generational sex is the phenomenon in which young girls are given material goods in exchange for sex. All girls are vulnerable to it, particularly orphans.
Ashley Judd
#7. There's a final exam in venture every four to six years. The scary thing is you need to get an 'A' in every discipline. You need to be on generational planning, need to be on great deal flow, need be on great outcomes, you need to be on great company building.
David Sze
#8. A personal journey is part of the generational relay. Live your legacy then pass it on.
Jo Ann V. Glim
#9. The four generational learning styles are Traditionalists Baby Boomers Generations X Generations Y or Millennials
Marina Arshavskiy
#10. It's almost a rite of passage for the middle-aged, it seems, to invent generational stereotypes for dumping on the young.
Robin Marantz Henig
#12. Everybody knows they're on the Obama team: There isn't vice presidential vs. presidential division, there's not a generational pull. People have internalized that this is a real moment in history.
Rahm Emanuel
#13. I think there's some generational difference between some of the older members of the press and this younger president [Bill Clinton]. I think the older members are not quite on the same wave length, and in general. I think it's been very devastating to the president.
David Gergen
#14. Adolescence was only recognised as a life stage in the early 20th century, when psychologists got down to work. Today's generational battle obscures the fact that adulthood is happening later. A new transitional stage has emerged after adolescence: the twenties.
Jane Ridley
#15. The greatest act of leadership is mentoring. No matter how much you may learn, achieve, accumulate, or accomplish, if it all dies with you, then you are a generational failure.
Myles Munroe
#16. Maybe it's a generational thing, but I never wanted to be the best black dancer in the world. I just wanted to be the best.
Judith Jamison
#17. Interestingly, a lot of the polling that I see is not along racial lines, but along generational lines. We are doing better and better among younger people, not so well among older people, whether they're African-American, whether they're white or whether they're Latino.
Bernie Sanders
#18. If you want change, it has to be generational. We have this unbelievable opportunity to make that change. Entertainment enables us to entice and educate mass audiences into a shift of consciousness.
Ian Somerhalder
#20. One of the things I want to do with 'Desi Rascals' is go a bit deeper into the characters and their family lives and have a bit more heart and a bit more inter-generational story-telling, so it's not all about young people.
Gurinder Chadha
#21. When adults come together to form an intimate relationship, each person releases into it unresolved issues from their trans-generational pool of unconscious fantasies. Partners are often chosen to actualize certain potentialities for each other, and the unborn baby becomes party to their drama.
Joan Raphael-Leff
#22. I've begun to appreciate the generational patterns that ripple out from our lives like stones dropped in water, pulsing outward even after we are gone. Although we have but one childhood, we relive it first through our children's and then our grandchildren's eyes.
Anne Cassidy
#23. We got a lot of politicians that will kiss babies, cut ribbons, do whatever it takes to be popular. That's not why I ran for office. I ran for office to make the generational changes in Louisiana.
Bobby Jindal
#24. My effort and ability to learn was always contextualized within the framework of generational family experience. Certain behaviors, gestures, habits of being were traced back. Attending
Bell Hooks
#25. Yes, your family history has some sad chapters. But your history doesn't have to be your future. The generational garbage can stop here and now.
Max Lucado
#26. My fan base is really expanding into an inter-generational thing - it's what every artist probably hopes for.
Daryl Hall
#27. When I began experimenting, people weren't ready for it. Once it's in its second and third generational stages, people can accept it.
Joni Mitchell
#28. I know now that this isn't true love or perfection or happily ever after. It's not even meant to be. This is a broken condom at the end of a drunken night. This is a generational walk of shame with two hundred spectators
Christina Meredith
#29. The impact today from the latchkey generational signpost is that Generation Xers tend to be highly independent workers. After
Meagan Johnson
#30. People who bet against the Internet, who think that somehow this change is just a generational shift, miss that it is a fundamental reorganizing of the power of the end user. The Internet brings tremendous tools to the end user, and that end user is going to use them.
Eric Schmidt
#31. When I do my shows, it's really cross-generational. Sometimes there's three generations there.
Paloma Faith
#32. Some problems were generational; you just had to wait for the relevant elders to die off and be replaced with more progressive types.
Iain M. Banks
#33. Obama has built his public image around his ability to bridge divisions - racial, ideological or generational. And that was his reputation, even at Harvard Law School, where he was the first black president of the 'Law Review.'
Mara Liasson
#34. Our large age difference made us shy with each other; there was a formality, a generational reserve;
Donna Tartt
#35. Without freedom, the family and faith cannot survive. Without faith, we will see freedom and family languish. And without family, man will give up on a generational commitment to faith and freedom.
Kevin Swanson
#36. Rather than focusing on coarse generational categories, it makes more sense to focus on the skills and knowledge that are necessary to make sense of a mediated world. Both youth and adults have a lot to learn.
Danah Boyd
#37. I think perhaps it is a generational thing. I talk to younger people and they say, Where is this melancholy city you talk about My Istanbul is a sunny place.
Orhan Pamuk
#38. Nowadays, Skype is a generational way of putting both people on camera at the same time.
Richard LaGravenese
#39. This is a generational difference. This is the same woman who told me to request "twilight sleep" during delivery. (Twilight sleep is the memory-erasing pain medication that doctors gave women in the 1950s whenever they had to take a baby out or put a body snatcher in.) I
Tina Fey
#40. I think generational trauma also plays a big part in the reactions to Israeli politics.
Jill Soloway
#41. You know, we didn't want to kill anyone, but we knew that "Star Wars" is a generational tale. It always is. And for it to have some guts and some resonance and true stakes, I don't think that everyone could have come through the story unscathed.
J.J. Abrams
#42. It was just that she wondered when, exactly, she had become so old. Perhaps it had happened when her mother died. Some kind of generational shift. The mantel being passed.
Katarina Bivald
#43. Bitterness about your parents' brokenness will kill you. Be the grace-filled end of generational sin in your family.
John Piper
#44. Nothing in our daily life offers more of the comfort of continuity, the generational connection of belonging to a vast and complicated American family, the powerful sense of home, the freedom from time's constraints, and the great gift of accumulated memory than does our National Pastime.
Ken Burns
#45. It is my desire to break the destructive generational cycle of illiteracy in the home by focusing on the children. Reading to your child has so much value as a parent because it opens the lines of communication.
Victoria Osteen
#46. I don't feel the need to prove myself by writing the next generational novel.
Camilla Lackberg
#47. The '60s may be idealized in the movie from a cultural point of view, but the decade was all about discord and a big generational split that was very painful.
Jane Fonda
#48. Credit, security passes, and other documents. It was a booming trade in the booming economy of Bombay, and we often worked through the dawn to satisfy the demand. And the business was generational: as licensing authorities and other bodies
Gregory David Roberts
#49. There's always some generational-guys-hanging-out movie that is made every few years, I think, and some of them are great.
Noah Baumbach
#50. My dad drank pretty heavily, and he never missed a day of work in his life. So I never looked at drinking as a serious problem, but drugs to me are a serious problem. I think it's a generational thing. I think older people don't feel as uncomfortable around drinkers as they do around dopers.
Alex Trebek
#51. You can't change generational poverty by sitting on your ass. Let's get to work!
Damen Lopez
#52. I strongly believe that at this point in America's history, we need a president that will not just continue basically the policies we have been following in recent years. I think we need a transformational figure. I think we need a president who is a generational change.
Colin Powell
#53. Science is very cross-generational; you're not just aiming it at twentysomethings, or eightysomethings. Every town's got a really broad selection of people and age groups interested in science.
Robin Ince
#54. I think that there is a generational change, where new generations that have grown up always having access to the internet have a somewhat different view in terms of personal information and what needs to be kept private.
Marissa Mayer
#55. This model understands that there are real limits imposed on all individuals precisely because of our phylogenetic and generational legacy; that is, our predicament is less intrapsychically located than external and historical.
Nancy J. Ramsay
#56. The promise of Social Security was reflected in President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's inter-generational compact that rewards hard work and provides retirement security.
Christine Pelosi
#57. I often meet young directors who, you know, had a 'Ghostbusters' picture on their wall as they were growing up. And it's really nice. It just shows how inter-generational our industry is.
Sigourney Weaver
#58. When Bill Clinton chose Al Gore in 1992 - from the same generational, ideological, and geographical background as his - it underscored his campaign's central argument that this was a clash between the past and the future, that 'Don't Stop Thinking About Tomorrow' was indeed the campaign's anthem.
Jeff Greenfield
#59. We live in an age of generational turmoil. Baby-boom parents are accused of clinging on to jobs and houses which they should be freeing up for their children. Twentysomethings who can't afford to leave home and can't get jobs are attacked as aimless and immature.
Jane Ridley
#60. But why should women and queer people learn to forget? Generational logic underpins our investments in the dialectic of memory and forgetting;
J. Jack Halberstam
#61. I think it's interesting: What is the generational effect of the experience of being a gay person in America? For my generation, it was very difficult.
Ira Sachs
#62. Generational change within a genre is hard to parse while it's happening. Only in retrospect can the passing of the baton from ancestors to progeny be clearly discerned.
Paul Di Filippo
#63. I don't find the wave model very productive, because I think it kind of serves to fan the flames of generational tension, or make it seem like there's more generational tension than there actually is.
Jessica Valenti
#64. What I've been surprised by is not how different people are, but how similar they are. There are certain types of Airbnb people, and they are in every city in the world - it's just that in some cultures, there is more of a generational divide.
Brian Chesky
#65. And we have not found any generational gap at all. If he wants to go a football game, he goes. If I want to go to a fashion show, I go. We don't have to do everything together. But we like doing most things together.
Joan Collins
#66. Whatever situation you are in - be it familiar spirit, generational curses or infirmity - be released, in the name of Jesus!
T. B. Joshua
#67. For me, there's nothing better than getting immersed in a sprawling, epic, multi-generational family saga, and 'One Hundred Years of Solitude' by Gabriel Garcia Marquez is the most sprawling, epic, and multi-generational of them all.
Jandy Nelson
#68. I definitely don't think of myself as someone identified by region. It's too far-flung a region, for starters, and southern New Mexico is very isolated. I wouldn't think of my identity as generational, either, but maybe as more stylistic, in the school of realism and domestic issues.
Antonya Nelson
#69. Music, Rock and Roll music especially, is such a generational thing. Each generation must have their own music, I had my own in my generation, you have yours, everyone I know has their own generation.
Ronnie James Dio
#70. The firsthand and the inter-generational experience, is the key, without it there is no memory once that first generation is gone.
Suzanna Eibuszyc
#71. I think an artist's true worth comes through an inter-generational thing - when you go beyond your own time, and start influencing people in a greater way than just what surrounds you.
Daryl Hall
#72. Building a better future will depend on our ability to appreciate generational differences.
Mal Fletcher
#73. Being a parent gives you historical perspective. You have thoughts about how you fit into a larger generational drama - those who came before and those who will come after.
Marianne Williamson
#74. God's plan is always for the present generation to build on the strengths of the previous. This is the synergy of the ages - multiplied power through generational agreement and honor.
Dutch Sheets
#75. I have two daughters: One an open book, one a locked box. So the question of privacy is a challenging one. How much do kids need? How much should we give? How do we prepare them to live in a world where the very notion of privacy opens a generational chasm?
Nancy Gibbs
#76. I also believe that the boundaries of school need to be made more porous and permeable, that we need to reduce the generational segregation that defines life and learning in our society.
Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot
#77. David Bowie is the quintessential English gentleman and, of course, a musical and generational institution. I only played support for him for one night (not a whole tour) but he was incredibly gracious and generous toward me and I've certainly never forgotten it.
Brooke Fraser
#78. Generational bonds are easily formed and rarely broken.
David Jeremiah
#79. I was really a big fan of Loveless. At [the time it came out], I made music that was not too far away from [what they were doing], but we were stuck in Austria. There was no way to get attention from the outside world. Maybe it's a generational thing.
Christian Fennesz
#80. No more generational feuds, no more ancient grudges, no more pointless revenge carried out against people who inherited some old guilt from their great-grandparents.
Marko Kloos
#81. All technological change is generational change.
Nicholas Carr
#82. Of course, our roles within the family are radically different. Generational stereotypes of moms and dads have disintegrated A-bomb style. We are making it up as we go along, pioneering a new era of equality.
Gudjon Bergmann
#83. My own son feels I'm uncool but my grandson loves me. Being cool or uncool is a generational thing. But as a personal thing, I really love everybody in sight.
Jack Kirby
#84. Rap now is multi-generational, which has its own issues. My son is a big Cudi fan, but he does not like talking to me about Kid Cudi.
Lyor Cohen
#85. It is a form of generational narcissism to change texts to suit one's own needs.
Luke Timothy Johnson
#86. We have a planetary emergency. We have to find a way to create, in the generation of those alive today, a sense of generational mission.
Al Gore
#87. All generations need to realize they can learn from each other, to run a successful business and an advanced society.
Pearl Zhu
#88. Daddy once told me there's a rage passed down to every black man from his ancestors, born the moment they couldn't stop the slave masters from hurting their families. Daddy also said there's nothing more dangerous than when that rage is activated.
Angie Thomas
#89. A portion of guilt is standard issue for southern boys; our whole lives are convoluted, egregious apologies to our mothers because our fathers have made us such flawed husbands.
Pat Conroy
#90. The generation that destroys the environment is not the generation that pays the price. That is the problem.
Wangari Maathai
#91. Remember how, back in 1990, if you used a cellphone in public you looked like a total asshole? We're all assholes now.
Douglas Coupland
#92. All the great words, it seemed to Connie were cancelled, for her generation: love, joy, happiness, home, mother, father, husband, all these great, dynamic words were half dead now and dying from day to day.
D.H. Lawrence
#93. For me, it's not just about blessing my generation, I've done that already, I also have to be a father to the fatherless.
Onyi Anyado
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