“Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.”— Lewis Mumford
“When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.”— Sholom Aleichem
“My generation was not only leading the way in social change, but we were also being showcased for it.”— Elizabeth Ashley
“Mine is the first generation able to contemplate the possibility that we may live our entire lives without going to war or sending our children to war.”— Tony Blair
“Mine is the first generation able to contemplate the possibility that we may live our entire lives without going to war or sending our children to war.”— Tony Blair
“The 'Greatest Generation' is a term I coined to describe the generation of Americans who grew up during the deprivation of the Great Depression and then went on to win World War II.”— Tom Brokaw
“The baby boomers are the most demanding, the most educated, the most self-absorbed, the most narcissistic, the most spoiled, and the most pampered generation in history.”— Tom Brokaw
“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
“The guys who are playing it now are just as good as the guys who were playing it then.”— Eddie Condon
“We should so live and labor in our time that what came to us as seed may go to the next generation as blossom, and that what came to us as blossom may go to them as fruit.”— Peter Cooper