Generational Quotes

“Heinrich replied, “The fact that Kramer’s radio station has  been wiped out by the British Navy in now classified information!”
― Michael G. Kramer, His Forefathers and Mick

“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, JPod

“When first I arrived in the woods, I became aware of how unprepared I was for what I was about to experience." ”
― John-Paul Cernak, The Odyssey of a Hippie Marijuana Grower

“When a trapper entered the valley, I reflected back on my life as an Indian. "I'm sure as an Indian living  on the plains, I trapped animals for their fur and for their meat, I took what I needed for survival, but doing it for profit somehow rubbed me the wrong way”
― John-Paul Cernak, The Odyssey of a Hippie Marijuana Grower

“The generation that destroys the environment is not the generation that pays the price. That is the problem.”
― Wangari Maathai

“All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born.”
― William Faulkner

“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, Surface Detail

“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

“Willfully polluting the ground with AC electricity is just another aspect of how the electrical utility companies will be remembered by the next generation.”
― Steven Magee, Electrical Forensics

“San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time and place to be a part of. Maybe it meant something. Maybe not, in the long run...but no explanation, no mix of words or music or memories can touch that sense of knowing that you were there and alive in that corner of time and the world. Whatever it meant...
History is hard to know...but even without being sure of "history" it seems entirely reasonable to think that every now and then the energy of a whole generation comes to a head in a long fine flash, for reasons that nobody really understands at the time - and which never explain, in retrospect, what actually happened.”
― Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream

“But nothing inspired me more than the fights for equal rights at the center of our history. Each generation, it became clear, was defined by whether they expanded equality, welcoming and including people who had once been excluded or rejected.”
― Sarah McBride, Tomorrow Will Be Different: Love, Loss, and the Fight for Trans Equality

“My grandfather...The last thing he said to my mother was "Your mother loves you"...Years later it occurred to me that when someone says what my grandfather did, what they mean, what would be far more accurate, is "She is trying to love you as best she can." This might be okay with you, or it might now be what you need at all...and now I am forty years old...I don't have a daughter and I don't know if I ever will. But if I do, we will not carry this sadness forward. I'm tired of holding it.”
― Jessica Francis Kane, Rules for Visiting

“But a generation that knows only how to travel — can they teach a generation how to arrive?”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Birthday of the World and Other Stories

“I became the wandering soul looking for roots buried under ruin, denied forever the certainty of full knowledge.”
― Uyen Nicole Duong, Daughters Of The River Huong

“A generation has more in common, after all, than a nation, than a profession.”
― Victor Klemperer, I Will Bear Witness 1942-45 A Diary of the Nazi Years

“A part of me wants to cry at this small request, because I know what that longing is like, what it means. I won't be there forever, but I will be there for her. For her sister. For her mother. I'll be there, for a while, planting seeds, and it will matter.”
― Alicia Elliott, And Then She Fell

“Those who vandalised and violated your body have borne generations of children who, today, worship the likeness of your body.”
― Mitta Xinindlu

“She envies the way he takes care of his mom, paying her bills and all. While I envy the loyalty shoe has always shown him, making it easy for him to do this.”
― Niedria D. Kenny

“... Gen Z has a global perspective. Gen Z will graduate into a recession on account of the 2009 financial crisis and the global pandemic of 2020. These economic stressors will undermine this generation's ability to be independent and self-reliant. Gen Z were born into an era of increased gun violence, terrorism and war.”
― Gaiti Rabbani, Curious About Culture: Refocus your lens on culture to cultivate cross cultural understanding

“Generational wealth follows a simple equation: The foolish diminish it, the wise distribute it, the smart increase it—but only the great multiply it exponentially.”
― Dr. Lucas D. Shallua