Top 45 Generational Quotes

Our pandering politicians compete to add names to the dependency of entitlement rolls instead of evaluating the success of these programs by how many people leave the dole and are restored to an independence. And these bulging entitlements are saddling our offspring with unsustainable generational debt.

There’s a huge generational gap between the Soviet-school journalists and the new journalists. We were not brought up working on propaganda; we were brought up in the new Russia, working on the news.

The 1950s felt so safe and smug, the ’60s so raw and raucous, the revolutions stacked one on top of another, in race relations, gender roles, generational conflict, the clash of church and state – so many values and vanities tossed on the bonfire, and no one had a concordance to explain why it was all happening at once.

The generational cycle of people returning to prison has enormous, negative impacts on all Americans, especially the family members of incarcerated people.

When I began experimenting, people weren’t ready for it. Once it’s in its second and third generational stages, people can accept it.

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.

Generational thinking has always been reductive and condescending.

The McMahons are generational promoters, Vince’s grandfather was a promoter way back in the day, and obviously, his father was a very, very famous promoter.

A descendant of enslaved people, George Floyd was born with generational trauma in his DNA and denied the generational wealth that belonged to his family.

While increasing acceptance of gays marks my generational experience – Ellen DeGeneres is welcomed into the living rooms of millions of Americans daily, an impossibility in even my childhood – many who are older than me fear that if gays and lesbians can marry, what’s next?

Feminism is so subjective. Because of the generational divide, and because we’re living in a completely different world than someone in Africa or even Scotland.

Catch-22’s admirers cross boundaries – ideological, generational, geographical.

Growing up with my mother who grew up during World War II being half Filipina, half Okinawan, and literally running around the jungles in the Philippines escaping Japanese military chasing after them – I grew up with what they deem now as trauma, generational trauma.

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.

When another editorial pops up denouncing millennials for some perceived generational flaw, I take it with a Miley Cyrus-sized grain of salt.

Blockchain technology represents a generational opportunity to mutualize database infrastructure across entities within financial services. What that translates into is an enormous cost-saving, risk-reducing, and capital-enhancing opportunity.

‘Post 9/11 Blues’ is an observational satire about the surreal circus of fear at that time. It’s a generational thing.

I want to have generational money.

Hopefully in the future, generational challenges will be measured by achievement, not gender.

What prevailed was that it was a family story, so it didn’t matter what the color. It was also the perfect subject matter for a miniseries: A best-selling book, a generational story, a social problem – they all made ‘Roots’ what a miniseries should be.

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.

Hard work pays off. But it doesn’t stop now. I know I’m generational wealthy, as you can say, but still got business to handle.

Look, the Black community is diverse. We have generational divides. We have class divides. We have parts of the Black community that are fairly centrist, parts that are extremely activist.

The generational change in our government should not give hope to the adversaries of the revolution. We are continuity, not a rupture.

Generational disinterest in education means that too many young children lack the push from their parents in early years which can make the difference between success and failure in schools.

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.

In my family and in my community, I see people struggling with drug addiction, with poverty and the effects of generational poverty; I see people struggling with lack of access to healthcare.

Of course I can change a plug. But my father would not only know how to change a plug, he could have rewired the house, built the back wall. Its a generational thing.

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?

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.

It’s a very generational thing: I am not interested in labels. I am who I am. I will love who I love, and that’s the way it is going to be.

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.

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.

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.

Fairy tales cross generational lines, and how you respond to them depends on when in your life you’re seeing them.

I will continue to look for opportunities to tell stories that speak to a fresh generational, topical and multicultural point of view.

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.

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.

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.’

Now we have a generational threat struggle called Islamist extremism.

Brexit and Trump had upended the fundamental establishment viewpoint that politics was aspirational, that good politics promised progress, generational betterment and ever-expanding world reach.

It’s almost a rite of passage for the middle-aged, it seems, to invent generational stereotypes for dumping on the young.

Housing is predominantly presented as a generational issue: millennials aren’t able to get on the property ladder in the same way their parents were. But while it’s true that intergenerational fairness is an issue, this way of presenting the housing crisis glosses over much.

Nowadays, Skype is a generational way of putting both people on camera at the same time.

Throughout the coronavirus pandemic, there has been suffering and hardship on both sides of the generational divide.