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  • Although their parents died in the wilderness for their stubbornness, Israel could profit from the older generation's failure by remembering that God had used adversity to train them.

  • Mao Zedong Thought was not created by Comrade Mao alone - other revolutionaries of the older generation played a part in forming and developing it - but primarily it embodies Comrade Mao's thinking. Nevertheless, victory made him less prudent, so that in his later years some unsound features and unsound ideas, chiefly "Left" ones, began to emerge. In quite a number of instances he went counter to his own ideas, counter to the fine and correct propositions he had previously put forward, and counter to the style of work he himself had advocated.

    Thinking   Years   Ideas  
    Source: blog.hiddenharmonies.org
  • The new generation has to hear what the older generation refuses to tell it.

    Simon Wiesenthal (1976). “The sunflower”, Schocken
  • As tough as things have been, I am convinced you are tougher. I've seen your passion and I've seen your service. I've seen you engage and I've seen you turn out in record numbers. I've heard your voices amplified by creativity and a digital fluency that those of us in older generations can barely comprehend. I've seen a generation eager, impatient even, to step into the rushing waters of history and change its course.

    Remarks by the President at Barnard College Commencement Ceremony, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. May 14, 2012.
  • The classical music scene was completely unfamiliar to me. A lot of people think of older generations and stuffiness. But it's not. You listen to the Overture of 1812, and you can hear a rock n' roll catharsis.

    Thinking   Rocks   People  
  • I've always written. I'm from an older generation of programmers [who] did not come out of engineering. [A]ll sorts of people were drawn in from the social sciences and humanities.

  • Once your children are grown up and have children of their own, the problems are theirs and the less the older generation interferes the better.

  • A lot of youth today have become very narrow and conservative in a way, whereas we in the older generation are kind of living it.

    Generations   Today   Way  
    Source: thequietus.com
  • All of the generations go to what is chic for them, and theater seems to be an older generation's art form.

    Art   Generations   Chic  
  • I do think it's fascinating to see a play where everybody's sort of, in various ways, uprooted, and you see the older generation, the parents, whose faith has been something concrete that has guided them through a specific set of hurdles and circumstances.

    Thinking   Play   Parent  
    Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org
  • It's the same thing now. When I go onstage the young people scream and holler as much as the older generation.

  • If readers, young and old, would take even a moment to reflect on our rapidly shifting culture and ideology, I would be happy. Many leaders of the older generation dismiss emerging culture. Those leaders are at risk of becoming a feeble voice-piece without followers. Most of the younger generation is going deaf to the truth.

    Voice   Leader   Risk  
  • Jazz celebrates older generations and not just the youth movement. When you "sell" only to people of a certain age, you get cut off from the main body of experience. The power of couple dancing and courtship, it's elegant, and you wouldn't realize America was once a nation of dancers and singers today. People of all races could dance and sing.

    Interview with Vickie Karp, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 18, 2009.
  • Being a digital photographer I'm in awe of the older generation of photographers who created all those iconic cinematic style images on film, such as Man Ray's portrait of the photographer Lee Miller.

    Men   Style   Digital  
    Source: claphamstudiohire.com
  • [A] new generation, innocent of the divisions of the Cold War, this coming-of-age. ... If its members do not feel the urgency to escape the nuclear danger that some of its parents felt, neither has it developed the deep attachment to nuclear arms also often found among their parents, including most of the governing class. ... The call for abolition should therefore be, among other things, a call from an older generation to younger one.

    War   Attachment   Class  
  • If many of our young people have lost the excitement of the early settlers, who had a country to explore and develop, it is because no one remembers to tell them that the world has never been so challenging, so exciting... Perhaps the older generation is often to blame with its cautious warning: “Take a job that will give you security, not adventure.” But I say to the young: “Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, and imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of a competence.

  • I remind young people everywhere I go, one of the worst things the older generation did was to tell them for twenty-five years "Be successful, be successful, be successful" as opposed to "Be great, be great, be great". There's a qualitative difference.

    "Democracy Matters". Speech in San Francisco, October 01, 2004.
  • I cannot think that a player genuinely loving the game can get pleasure just from the number of points scored no matter how impressive the total. I will not speak of myself, but for the masters of the older generation, from whose games we learned, the aesthetic side was the most important. -

  • The older generations have eaten the future of the younger ones.

    "The Youth Unemployment Bomb" by Peter Coy, www.bloomberg.com. February 2, 2011.
  • Schooling, by definition, must be conservative. It is naturally dependent on an older generation’s level of knowledge and sense of values.

    Leon Botstein (1997). “Jefferson's Children: Education and the Promise of American Culture”
  • There's an older generation that feels like they know what the future should be. And then there's your generation that may have an idea of what the future should be, but that could evolve.

    Ideas   Generations   May  
    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • The older generation sat looking at the younger, and Kat wondered exactly when and how the baton had been passed. She wanted to know if it was too late to give it back.

  • The ukulele has always appealed to the older generation.

  • We of an older generation can get along with what we have, though with growing hardship; but in your full manhood and womanhood you will want what nature once so bountifully supplied and man so thoughtlessly destroyed; and because of that want you will reproach us, not for what we have used, but for what we have wasted...So any nation which in its youth lives only for the day, reaps without sowing, and consumes without husbanding, must expect the penalty of the prodigal whose labor could with difficulty find him the bare means of life.

    Mean   Men   Growing  
    Theodore Roosevelt (1941). “Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia”
  • I think there's a whole older generation that will go to movies still. People like me; people over 45.

    Source: www.avclub.com
  • People fall out of love, or get married for the wrong reasons. People change. The older generation - they got married and had a kid when they were 20. How do you know who you are when you're 20?

    "Kellan Lutz is a One-Woman Kind of Guy". Interview with Mickey Rapkin, www.elle.com. November 16, 2012.
  • When we see society telling women that they have a certain time, that they make women compete with each other, the older generation competing with the younger generation. They've made us believe that there's not enough men out there for us or that we're only hired because of our looks and not because of our abilities.

    Source: www.sheknows.com
  • What I tell these young people is, the world is not as dangerous as the older generation would like you to believe. Anyone I know who has ever taken a risk and lost a job has ended up getting a better one two years later.

    Jobs   Taken   Believe  
  • The view after seventy is breathtaking. What is lacking is someone, anyone, of the older generation to whom you can turn when you want to satisfy your curiosity about some detail of the landscape of the past. There is no longer any older generation. You have become it, while your mind was mostly on other matters

    Past   Views   Curiosity  
    William Maxwell (2013). “All the Days and Nights: The Collected Stories”, p.357, Vintage
  • Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.

    1854 Walden, or Life in the Woods,'Economy'.
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