We need an angry generation, A generation to plow the horizons

It is always self-defeating to pretend to the style of a generation younger than your own; it simply erases your own experience in history.

Of all things I find most unbearable is the injustice of one generation to another.

Amongst democratic nations, each new generation is a new people.

There was a succession of technological floods, and each new generation looked back to its youth like Father Noah.

It is mere childishness to expect men to believe as their fathers did; that is, if they have any minds of their own. The world is a whole generation older and wiser than when the father was of his son's age.

Like leaves on trees the race of man is found,- Now green in youth, now withering on the ground; Another race the following spring supplies: They fall successive, and successive rise.

Each generation takes a special pleasure in removing the household gods of its parents from their pedestals, and consigning them to the cupboard.

Every old man complains of the growing depravity of the world, of the petulance and insolence of the rising generation.

We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free of their authority.