Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
I come from a long line of generations!
It's tough having the last name 'Rickles.' Luckily, my kids handled it great.
He touched the screen as if trying to reach through with his hand. "You're a wonderful young lady. I don't tell you that often enough. You remind me so much of your mother. She'd be proud. And Grandpa Tom" --he chuckled-- "he always said you'd be the most powerful voice in our family. You're going to outshine me some day, you know. They're going to remember me as Piper McLean's father, and that's the best legacy I can imagine.
And I am standing in front of my mother, and my whole life I have wanted to make my mother proud. And now I'm going to make my daughter proud.
I was proud of the youths who opposed the war in Vietnam because they were my babies.
Nothing is more characteristically juvenile than contempt for juvenility. . . youth's characteristic chronological snobbery.
A few people have said my granddad looks like me, but I reckon he's far better looking.
It was the hubris of each generation to think this anew, to think that their time was special, that all things would come to an end with them.
I have often noticed that ancestors never boast of the descendants who boast of ancestors. I would rather start a family than finish one. Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.
I think one of the nicest things that we created as a generation was just the fact that we could say, 'Hey, I don't like white people.'
I had a sense of pride for the armed forces from the time I was a child because of my grandfather. He taught me to salute. He told me that every time I see army personnel, I should salute as a mark of respect.
My little brother and I, we're just in our generation. We're doing the best job we can do. There were champions like Mike Tyson who fought everybody, and not everybody was just as good.
We gladly put antiquity above our age but not posterity. Only a father doesn't begrudge his son's talent.
I get the, you know, 'In my generation, we all had victory gardens, we all participated in this country's success.' It's that kind of sentiment that I hear from everybody, that we're all in this together.
I think young generation is always better than last generation. No matter you like it or don't like it. My father said, 'Jack, I'm so good, you'll never be' - but I'm better than him. My father is better than my grandfather. My children will be better than us.
I'll probably always be 'Timothy Spall's son' and it's something I'm proud of. Maybe one day as well as that, they'll say of Timothy Spall that 'He's Rafe Spall's dad'.
every generation has a conceit of itself which elevates it, in its own opinion, above that which comes after it.
