Quotes About Intergenerational

#1. The wraith responds vehemently that...No! No! Any conversation or interchange is better than none at all, to trust him on this, that the worst kind of gut-wrenching intergenerational interface is better than withdrawal or hiddenness on either side

David Foster Wallace

#2. One of the things we want to do is find ways, first, to impress these parents how important it is to have children in a situation where they can respond to them and, second, to bring intergenerational relationships into play.

C. Everett Koop

#3. Perhaps the greatest justice issue of all is intergenerational theft. The Eighth Commandment says "Thou shall not steal," but every day we live unsustainably we steal from our children and their children.

Fred Small

#4. The education system is an increasingly powerful mechanism for the intergenerational reproduction of privilege.

Fareed Zakaria

#5. I'm drawn to intergenerational tension, and it must have been strong in the 1920s: I wondered how Louise's [Brooks] generation of flappers appeared to the women who came of age at the beginning of the century - wearing corsets, long skirts, and high collars.

Laura Moriarty

#6. I stuck on the lunchtime news. More riots. Tedious now. Depressing. You ever read Thucycdides? I'll boil him down for you in one easy moral: intergenerational war is a very bad thing.

Adrian McKinty

#7. Retire from your job but never from meaningful projects. If you want to live a long life, you need eustress, that is, a deep sense of meaning and of contribution to worthy projects and causes, particularly, your intergenerational family.

Stephen Covey

#8. You ever read Thucydides? I'll boil him down for you into one easy moral: intergenerational civil war is a very bad thing.

Adrian McKinty

#9. Jail threats did not dissuade Martin Luther King - and intergenerational justice is a moral issue of comparable magnitude to civil rights.

James Hansen

#10. The core values that underpin sustainable development - interdependence, empathy, equity, personal responsibility and intergenerational justice - are the only foundation upon which any viable vision of a better world can possibly be constructed

Jonathon Porritt

#11. The intergenerational poverty that troubles us so much today is predominantly a poverty of values.

Dan Quayle

#12. In reality, Jesus' vision for intergenerational relationships was anything but cute. It was and is both radical and revolutionary.

Kara E. Powell

#13. I don't buy the whole mythology of the sixties. I think I'm an intergenerational person.

Bill Ayers

#14. I was worried that, as a college teacher, if I wrote too much about intergenerational sex my students would be creeped out.

Dan Chaon

#15. The ecological crisis shows the urgency of a solidarity which embraces time and space ... A greater sense of intergenerational solidarity is urgently needed. Future generations cannot be saddled with the cost of our use of common environmental resources.

Pope Benedict XVI

#16. Believe in better, which is a corporate phrase rather than a political phrase. We don't want more. We're not looking for quantity. We're looking for quality. Believe in better suggests intergenerational change. It suggests product innovation. It suggests something better for the future.

Frank Luntz

#17. India's rigid social structure limits intergenerational economic mobility and fosters acceptance of vast wealth disparities.

Steven Rattner

#18. I'm not against the intergenerational function of the museum, I am not against its address or celebration of the individual, but I am against its continuous, unreflected-on celebration of material production.

Tino Sehgal

#19. It is a function of entrenched, intergenerational poverty that isolates too many lower-income Americans from even middle-class economic, cultural, and social opportunities and norms.

Yuval Levin

#20. Liturgy, literally the work of the people, is the intergenerational stronghold in Christian history.

Kathie Amidei

#21. The ski club was a frugal and intergenerational group. It gave dime-store trophies for speed and agility within categories of gender, age, and experience, and so eventually everyone got a trophy.

Meredith Marple

#22. Any strategy to reduce intergenerational poverty has to be centered on work, not welfare
not only because work provides independence and income but also because work provides order, structure, dignity, and opportunities for growth in people's lives.

Barack Obama

#23. My son is now fourteen, and from the moment he was born, I understood that forevermore my heart would be walking around outside my body.

Dani Shapiro

#24. The man dies in all those that keep silent.

Wole Soyinka

#25. Some of us are inclined to look to the weaknesses and shortcomings of others in order to expand our own comfort zone.

Marvin J. Ashton

#26. Heretical views arise when the truth is uncertain, and it is only when the truth is uncertain that censorship is invoked.

Bertrand Russell

#27. Even women have been known to enjoy the privileges of a flat.

Edith Wharton

#28. When you're a boy your life can be measured out as a series of uncomfortable conversations reluctantly initiated by adults in an effort to tell you things that you either already know or really don't want to know.

Ben Aaronovitch

#29. ALBUS: But I don't need a Ron and Hermione. I've - I've got a friend, Scorpius, and I know you don't like him but he's all I need. HARRY:

J.K. Rowling

#30. That is what you're making of the end of your mother's life, child. What will you make of your own?

Kage Baker

#31. The job of every generation is to discover the flaws of the one that came before it. That's part of growing up, figuring out all the ways your parents and their friends are broken.

Justine Larbalestier

#32. We very quickly forget about the wonderful things we've got. People lose their excitement because there's too much. Basically we're experiencing nothing, because everything is available to us.

Robin Ince

#33. God, how I hate it when somebody yells "Good luck!" at me when I'm leaving somewhere. It's depressing.

J.D. Salinger

#34. Wicked men obey for fear, but the good for love.

Aristotle.

#35. We often hear about stepping outside ourselves, but rarely about stepping outside our generation.

Criss Jami

#36. Our Ancestors knew that healing comes in cycles and circles.

One generation carries the pain so that the next can live and heal.

One cannot live without the other, each is the other's hope, meaning & strength.

Gemma B. Benton

#37. The best defence against bullshit is vigilance. So if you smell something, say something.

Jon Stewart