The trimmings of wealth are not as important to me and my generation as they were to my parents' generation. — Ian Schrager Copy Share Image
Women gain social influence through their roles as mothers, transmitters of culture, and parents for the next generation. — Patricia Hill Collins Copy Share Image
I do tend to look back to my parents generation and think wow! what a great way to be, to live with… — Tony Parsons Copy Share Image
My generation will actually be the first generation that is tamer than the one that came before it, and it will probably… — Shia LaBeouf Copy Share Image
My parents' generation didn't have any understanding of psychology or emotion or individual temperament. In fact, they were slightly embarrassed by all… — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
My parents were first-generation immigrants. My mum wore a sari but at school and as a teenager and in my 20s I… — Konnie Huq Copy Share Image
If the parents in each generation always or often knew what really goes on at their sons' schools, the history of education… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
My mom and my dad are still together, but so many of my friends who got married just a few years ago… — Rodrigo Santoro Copy Share Image
“Like all their peers they went about things in the reverse order to the practice of their parents generation. They had sex,… — Patrick Gale Copy Share Image
They say that we are better educated than our parents' generation. What they mean is that we go to school longer. They… — Douglas Yates Copy Share Image
'Our parents' generation had it a lot tougher than we did. They had to live through the Depression, World War II, and… — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
My parents' generation was definitely pre-telly, and they knew how to entertain each other. Everybody knew something that they could do -… — Lindsay Duncan Copy Share Image
I have always wanted to make a film about my parents' generation, which tried every way to escape from the deadly shadow… — Mabel Cheung Copy Share Image
It became obvious to me that the generation who changed the world were my parents' generation, and not only in terms of… — Linda Grant Copy Share Image
“A father and a mother who are not honored are essentially adult peers of their children. They are not parents. No generation… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
It took us a long time to find out that we had been lied to by our parents' generation. The moralities that… — Peter Fonda Copy Share Image
Chinese people of my parents' generation who lived through the Cultural Revolution knew so much of death at such a young age,… — Jenny Zhang Copy Share Image
I think, at the end of the century we'll have a generation of parents and a generation of children who won't have… — Alison Gopnik Copy Share Image
“We did not undertake systematic interviews with people now below the age of thirty-five, but in many of the interviews with their… — Patricia Marchak Copy Share Image
The assumption is that life doesn't need to be navigated with lessons. You can just do it intuitively. After all, you only… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“It is my fault, and the fault of everyone of my generation. I wonder what the future generations will say about us.… — Max Brooks Copy Share Image
“One of my greatest fears is family decline.There’s an old Chinese saying that “prosperity can never last for three generations.” I’ll bet… — Amy Chua Copy Share Image
They say that we are better educated than our parents' generation. What they mean is that we go to school longer. It… — Richard Yates Copy Share Image
We're going to live longer than our parents' generation, and there comes a point when you ask yourself, 'What am I going… — Jane Pauley Copy Share Image
My parents were of the generation who thought they were the children of a free Czechoslovakia, the only democracy in central Europe. — Madeleine Albright Copy Share Image
Both of my parents were first-generation Americans, the children of Jews who left Eastern Europe around the turn of the century. — H. Robert Horvitz Copy Share Image
No matter what job you do, we all have a much different life than our parents had. My parents' generation had one… — Kate Walsh Copy Share Image
Well, I didn't feel that I could do justice to this story of my parents and their generation, and all that they… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
I like that in 'Caprica' the virtual world is a new thing. The parents didn't have that growing up. And it's the… — Magda Apanowicz Copy Share Image
“The rules for raising children had gone out with her parents generation of daughters who had lived as Lucy had, in patient… — Susan Richards Shreve Copy Share Image
