Children Quote by C. Sommerville

It was good fortune to be a child during the Depression years and a youth during the war years.

— Martin Lewis Perl

“I was one of the postwar baby-boom generation”

— Helen Bryan

The baby boomers are the most spoiled, most self-centered, most narcissistic generation the country's ever produced.

— Steve Bannon

“I read Tom Brokaw’s book The Greatest Generation. This book celebrates the virtues of the generation that grew up between the two world wars.9…

— Dinesh D'Souza

“It wasn't until the 1920s that a bare majority of children grew up in families where the father's labor purchased the family's provisions, while…

— Stephanie Coontz

“As one 1935 study put it, boys and girls who were 15 or 16 in 1929 when the Depression began are no longer children;…

— Robert A. Caro

“TO MY MIND, THOUGH, there is a third development that has altered our parenting experience above all others, and that is the wholesale transformation…

— Jennifer Senior

“In my generation we did a lot of pleasure chasing—we, the generation responsible for today’s twenty-year-olds and thirty-year-olds and forty-year-olds. Before they came into…

— Sidney Poitier

“Recall that this is the first time that America truly had a “generation gap,” a chasm between parents and children. In previous generations, children…

— Dinesh D'Souza

My parents were children during the Great Depression of the 1930s, and it scarred them. Especially my father, who saw destitution in his Brooklyn,…

— Bill O'Reilly

Having been raised during the war, I know very well how childhood hampered by displacement, poverty, violence, and fear looks like.

— Edin Dzeko

The rules of parenting have changed. By the modern definition, we were a generation of neglected children.

— Richard Linklater