“History was a wave that moved through the generations, requiring that a generation respond.”— Jeffrey Eugenides
“We are the middle children of history. We have no great war, no great depression. Our great war is a spiritual war. Our great depression is our lives.”— Chuck Palahniuk
“When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.”— Sholom Aleichem
“Our problem is that we have a generation of people who have been taught that they are entitled to everything.”— James Dobson
“My generation was not only leading the way in social change, but we were also being showcased for it.”— Elizabeth Ashley
“All of us who grew up before World War II are immigrants in time, immigrants from an earlier world, living in an age essentially different from our own.”— Patrick Buchanan
“We are the first generation to be cloned, to be genetically engineered, to be born into a digital culture.”— Arthur Kroker
“By the time a man realizes that his father was right, he has a son who thinks he's wrong.”— Garry Kasparov
“The guys who are playing it now are just as good as the guys who were playing it then.”— Eddie Condon
“The sins of the fathers are not visited upon the children, it is the other way around.”— Janet Flanner
“A revolution only lasts fifteen years, a period which coincides with the effectiveness of a generation.”— José Ortega y Gasset
“Any attempt to label an entire generation is unrewarding, and yet the generation which went through the last war... has been labeled the 'Silent Generation.'”— John Clellon Holmes
“I think it's important to be in touch with the issues that are affecting generations.”— Judy Davis
“The only thing wrong with the younger generation is that we don't belong to it anymore.”— Charles McCabe