America Quote by Erma Bombeck

I don't blame younger generations for their lack of awareness. Americans in general are not interested in history.

— Cleve Jones

Most oldsters are fascinated by the Future, while the young love to look back to earlier days, especially their own.

— Malcolm Forbes

“Time changes and our history fades. The young forget about the old and the old never forget the young.”

— Zachary Frerichs

The past always seems somehow more golden, more serious, than the present. We tend to forget the partisanship of yesteryear, preferring to re-imagine our…

— Jon Meacham

I think we're due for younger presidents. I'm tired of them always being in their 70s.

— MrBeast

The past is nothing to [the young], not even another country as it is to the old, or even a nightmare as it is…

— Cassandra Clare

I'm appalled at how many people my age, or even five or ten years younger, have no tangible memories of important history that happened…

— Jello Biafra

The fortunes of the entire world may well ride on the ability of young Americans to face the responsibilities of an old America gone…

— Phil Ochs

We in ancient countries have our past- we obsess over the past. They, the Americans, have a dream: they feel nostalgia about the promise…

— Azar Nafisi

“The old continue to be old-fashioned, though their youths were modern. We grow backward, aging into our father’s opinions and even into those of…

— John Updike

The people in Coming of Age were far less curmudgeonly than you would think. The greater percentage said that without the young we'd be…

— Studs Terkel

Part of the reason might be that I was born in 1954 and I look upon my youth with great fondness, like many old…

— Donald Ray Pollock