Quotes and Sayings about Generations

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

My generation is the generation that experienced school shootings beginning when I was in high school, the generation that fought in the post-9/11 wars, the first generation to have to deal with the reality of climate change, and the first generation not to be better off than our parents materially — if nothing changes.

Pete Buttigieg

September 11th Gen Y / Millennials

I suppose people of our generation aren't able to die for good causes any longer. We had all that done for us, in the thirties and the forties, when we were still kids. There aren't any good, brave causes left.

John Osborne in Look Back in Anger

Progress

I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.

John Adams

Future generations are not going to ask us what political party were you in. They are going to ask what did you do about it, when you knew the glaciers were melting.

Martin Sheen

Conservation & Environment Protection

Our choices are going to determine the future for our children, our children's children, and their children. I take that responsibility very seriously.

Maggie Q

Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Conservation & Environment Protection

The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a picture book?

David Attenborough

Nature & Environment Elephants

Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.

George Orwell

We have a moral responsibility to all children in the next generation.

Mark Zuckerberg - A letter to our daughter, 1.12.2015

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Michael: "I'm trying to relate to you."
Jimmy: "No, you're trying to take me on some nostalgia trip. You're such a cliche."
Michael: "Oh! says the dope-smoking, game-playing, live-at-home, world-owes-him-a-living millennial."

GTA - Grand Theft Auto - V

Gen Y / Millennials

2000 was 20 years ago... which is really weird because 1980 was also 20 years ago.

2020 Gen Y / Millennials Gen X

Why don't cannibals like to eat Millennials?
They're too salty.

Gen Y / Millennials

Which generation is the best and why is it Gen Y?

Gen Y / Millennials

A friendly guide about wether I'll be watching your Instagram stories:
______ ______ ______ (maybe)
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ (hell no!)

Instagram Social Media Gen Z / Zoomer

I'm going to tell my Gen Z friend a joke about Social Security. But he probably won't get it.

Gen Z / Zoomer

Gen Z's most stressful activity is searching for the right meme/GIF to send in their group chat before somebody else says something and the subject changes.

WhatsApp Gen Z / Zoomer

What does a Gen Z say, when asked to write a letter?
"Sorry, max I can do is 240 letters."

X / Twitter Gen Z / Zoomer

Which generation is the best and why is it Gen Z?

Gen Z / Zoomer

Coronavirus is all Gen Z's fault. They wanted everything to go viral, now look what's happened.

Corona-Jokes Gen Z / Zoomer

I don't typically hop into the generation wars, because I've got a Gen X birth certificate and a boomer body.

John Oliver (Last Week Tonight) - A History of Chuck E. Cheese

Gen X Baby Boomers

Asked my daughter to get me a phone book...
She's like, "Yo Gen X, how about keeping up? Just use my iPhone!"
I shrugged, took her iPhone and totally wrecked it when I crushed the spider on the wall.

iPhones Gen X

Gen X is a weird existence in this current environment. I mean, our parents let us come home to empty houses and expected us to entertain ourselves. We did.

Gen X

Boomer: "Millennials are a bunch of snowflakes."
Millennial: "Ok, Boomer."
Gen X: "[rips bong] Has anyone seen my Pearl Jam CD?"

Gen X

I love the fact that adults are buying plushies, Lego build sets, Hello Kitty crafts, painting their room all kinds of colors and putting fairy lights everywhere. I love seeing all of us put our money in stuff we wanted as kids and seeing it come to fruition.

Gen X Lego

One day, Generation X will be the old people. We'll let the kids do whatever they want: clean up the environment, switch to the metric system, legalize pot, and make their own kombucha - and never once ask them to fix our computers. Just have fun and don't get hurt!

Gen X

I never feel more Boomer than I do when I'm trying to find what category a specific emoji belongs to.

Baby Boomers Emojis 😂😉😍

I'll never accept a Baby Boomer saying mean things about my tattoos.
"Why did you ruin your body with those?"
"I don't know, Nancy, why did you ruin Earth?"

Baby Boomers

Boomer: "Why aren't these Millennials getting married? I married my sweetheart as soon as we left high school."
Also boomer: "I hate my wife."

Baby Boomers

If I had a dollar for every time a boomer insulted me...
I could afford a house in the economy they ruined.

Baby Boomers

Why do Baby Boomers always pay with a Visa?
Because they hate change.

Baby Boomers

How do boomers change a lightbulb?
They don't, they just keep talking about how great the old one was.

Baby Boomers

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

Isaac Asimov

Knowledge Society Science Wisdom

We're in a giant car heading towards a brick wall and everyone's arguing over where they're going to sit.

David Suzuki

Society Climate Change

Change the System! Not the Climate!

Conservation & Environment Protection Fridays for Future

Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.

Albert Einstein

Reason & Sanity Imagination

Who's the more foolish? The fool or the fool who follows him?

Obi-Wan Kenobi in Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope

Foolishness

Technology is fought with technology.

Palermo in Money Heist - Season 3 Episode 4

Technology

Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Courage Light

You're the weak one. And you'll never know love, or friendship. And I feel sorry for you.

Harry James Potter in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Voldemort / Tom Riddle

It's a tough time, but these are the best years. Believe me.

Leo in Leo

Youth

All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry in The Little Prince

Children & Childhood Birthday Age

I am a Democrat because I believe in protecting freedom, fairness, families, and the future.

Pete Buttigieg - December 2016

Ladies and gentlemen, this is a difficult moment for America. I, unfortunately, will be going back to Washington after my remarks. Today we've had a national tragedy. Two airplanes have crashed into the World Trade Center in an apparent terrorist attack on our country.

George W. Bush - September 2001

2001 September 11th

Alison: "I don't think I want anything more to do with love. Any more. I can't take it on."
Cliff: "You're too young to start giving up. Too young, and too lovely."

John Osborne in Look Back in Anger

Love Breakup Giving Up

You're hurt because everything is changed. Jimmy is hurt because everything is the same. And neither of you can face it. Something's gone wrong somewhere, hasn't it?

John Osborne in Look Back in Anger

Ich gehe langsam, aber ich gehe nie zurück.

Abraham Lincoln

Progress

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