Generation Gap: A chasm, amorphously situated in time and space, that separates those who have grown up absurd from those who will, with luck, grow up absurd. – Bernard Rosenberg, Dictionary for the Disenchanged, 1972
That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another. – Adlai Stevenson
First we are children to our parents, then parents to our children, then parents to our parents, then children to our children. – Milton Greenblatt
A father lives after death in his son. – Sanskrit
Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers. – Lewis Mumford, The Brown Decades
The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children. – Clarence Darrow
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, Classical American Literature, 1922
[A]t present my chief work is on the manuscripts of the library—a blessed lot, as nothing could be more interesting, as bringing me into close touch with the ancients, to whom I now belong. – James L. Whitney, “Reminiscences of an Old Librarian,” November 1909 #oldsoul
My generation is not strong. My grandfather fought in World WarII.I had a panic attack during the series finale of Breaking Bad. – Matt Donaher
Some men so dislike the dust kicked up by the generation they belong to, that, being unable to pass, they lag behind it. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers
The generations of men run on in the tide of time, but leave their destined lineaments permanent for ever and ever. – William Blake
Twenty cant be expected to tolerate sixty in all things, and sixty gets bored stiff with twentys eternal love affairs. – Emily Carr
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young. – Willa Cather
What one generation sees as a luxury, the next sees as a necessity. – Anthony Crosland
We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority, to bind themselves, but none to bind the succeeding generation, more than the inhabitants of another country. – Thomas Jefferson
Our tastes greatly alter. The lad does not care for the childs rattle, and the old man does not care for the young mans whore. – Samuel Johnson
We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free of their authority. – D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
From the earliest times the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser than they, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture. – W. Somerset Maugham
Its all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date. – George Bernard Shaw
Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation. – Adlai Stevenson
