generational impact quotes

We have to understand what the older generation has dealt to us, what mess they have created that we have to clean up and live with.

People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around – the music and the ideas.

My idea is always to reach my generation. The wise writer writes for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterward.

The women of my generation and my daughter’s generation, they were very active in moving along the social change that would result in equal citizenship stature for men and women.

My mother and my father have been married 50 years, and he’s just started to understand that something’s wrong with the system. He accepted the whole thing, you see. Yet this industrious kind of engagement didn’t bring him the success, according to American terms, that he wanted. I was probably affected by this very much. In fact, I know I was.

From one generation to the next, The Beatles will remain the most important rock band of all time.