Top 142 Generational Quotes & Sayings

My mother certainly loves caviar, but I think that's generational - they grew up thinking it's romantic or sophisticated or something.

Building a better future will depend on our ability to appreciate generational differences.

When I do my shows, it's really cross-generational. Sometimes there's three generations there.

The generational change in our government should not give hope to the adversaries of the revolution. We are continuity, not a rupture.

I think generational trauma also plays a big part in the reactions to Israeli politics.

For me, there's nothing better than getting immersed in a sprawling, epic, multi-generational family saga, and 'One Hundred Years of Solitude' by Gabriel Garcia Marquez is the most sprawling, epic, and multi-generational of them all.

We have a planetary emergency. We have to find a way to create, in the generation of those alive today, a sense of generational mission.

Now we have a generational threat struggle called Islamist extremism.

Right now there’s kind of a generational change. Young Americans do not trust this government. Without trusting government you can't do a lot of things.

Bitterness about your parents’ brokenness will kill you. Be the grace-filled end of generational sin in your family.

Hard work pays off. But it doesn't stop now. I know I'm generational wealthy, as you can say, but still got business to handle.

Generational poverty, most of us don't know what that means.

The thing I've always admired about Eagles fans is that it's not fans; it's family. It's generational.

I think that there is a generational change, where new generations that have grown up always having access to the internet have a somewhat different view in terms of personal information and what needs to be kept private.

Maybe Bernie [Sanders] lost his perspective because he became a part of the Washington culture. Maybe it's a generational thing.

I think the most pressing issue in our community is probably a generational divide.

When I began experimenting, people weren't ready for it. Once it's in its second and third generational stages, people can accept it.

The generational cycle of people returning to prison has enormous, negative impacts on all Americans, especially the family members of incarcerated people.

I often meet young directors who, you know, had a 'Ghostbusters' picture on their wall as they were growing up. And it's really nice. It just shows how inter-generational our industry is.

Hopefully in the future, generational challenges will be measured by achievement, not gender.

I think it's interesting: What is the generational effect of the experience of being a gay person in America? For my generation, it was very difficult.

Brexit and Trump had upended the fundamental establishment viewpoint that politics was aspirational, that good politics promised progress, generational betterment and ever-expanding world reach.

Generational bonds are easily formed and rarely broken.

Storytelling bridges the generational gaps in ideology.

Generational thinking has always been reductive and condescending.

I don't find the wave model very productive, because I think it kind of serves to fan the flames of generational tension, or make it seem like there's more generational tension than there actually is.

'Post 9/11 Blues' is an observational satire about the surreal circus of fear at that time. It's a generational thing.

With every resurgence or generational turning, fashion and music becomes reiterated.

I don't feel the need to prove myself by writing the next generational novel.

That's the key - to maintain the garden of liberty, right? This is a generational thing that we must all do continuously. We only have the rights that we protect. It doesn't matter what we say or think we have. It's not enough to believe in something; it matters what we actually defend.

As with oil, water exploitation raises an inter-generational debt that will be hard to repay.

Nowadays, Skype is a generational way of putting both people on camera at the same time.

I don't think of the New Urbanism as an economic or political train wreck. I think of it as one of these great generational upheavals that's coming.

It's a generational thing. It'd be great if some kids grew up with me as that Jason Bourne figure.

Whatever situation you are in - be it familiar spirit, generational curses or infirmity - be released, in the name of Jesus!

I think an artist's true worth comes through an inter-generational thing - when you go beyond your own time, and start influencing people in a greater way than just what surrounds you.

I will continue to look for opportunities to tell stories that speak to a fresh generational, topical and multicultural point of view.

The '60s may be idealized in the movie from a cultural point of view, but the decade was all about discord and a big generational split that was very painful.

Everybody knows they're on the Obama team: There isn't vice presidential vs. presidential division, there's not a generational pull. People have internalized that this is a real moment in history.

Generational change within a genre is hard to parse while it's happening. Only in retrospect can the passing of the baton from ancestors to progeny be clearly discerned.

Generational disinterest in education means that too many young children lack the push from their parents in early years which can make the difference between success and failure in schools.

Rap now is multi-generational, which has its own issues. My son is a big Cudi fan, but he does not like talking to me about Kid Cudi.

The promise of Social Security was reflected in President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's inter-generational compact that rewards hard work and provides retirement security.

If you want change, it has to be generational.

I want to have generational money.

My father told me abuse is generational.

There is nothing more important than parents passing on a generational legacy of faith and values to their children.

Fairy tales cross generational lines, and how you respond to them depends on when in your life you're seeing them.

I think perhaps it is a generational thing. I talk to younger people and they say, Where is this melancholy city you talk about My Istanbul is a sunny place.

It is a form of generational narcissism to change texts to suit one's own needs.

There's always some generational-guys-hanging-out movie that is made every few years, I think, and some of them are great.

When another editorial pops up denouncing millennials for some perceived generational flaw, I take it with a Miley Cyrus-sized grain of salt.

It's almost a rite of passage for the middle-aged, it seems, to invent generational stereotypes for dumping on the young.

My fan base is really expanding into an inter-generational thing - it's what every artist probably hopes for.

It is my desire to break the destructive generational cycle of illiteracy in the home by focusing on the children. Reading to your child has so much value as a parent because it opens the lines of communication.

A descendant of enslaved people, George Floyd was born with generational trauma in his DNA and denied the generational wealth that belonged to his family.

Catch-22's admirers cross boundaries - ideological, generational, geographical.

If you want change, it has to be generational. We have this unbelievable opportunity to make that change. Entertainment enables us to entice and educate mass audiences into a shift of consciousness.

I'm a bred musician - this is generational. For me to just limit myself to rapping is a discredit to my bloodline.

Feminism is so subjective. Because of the generational divide, and because we're living in a completely different world than someone in Africa or even Scotland.