Our strife pertains to ourselves-to the passing generations of men-and it can without convulsion be hushed forever with the passing of one generation.

In a brief space the generations of living beings are changed and like runners pass on the torches of life.

Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.

Every age and generation must be as free to act for itself in all cases as the ages and generations which preceded it. The vanity and presumption of governing beyond the grave is the most ridiculous and insolent of all tyrannies.

We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow; Our wiser sons, no doubt, will think us so.

It is not new for the older generation to bewail the indolence of the young, and there is a tendency for the latter to maintain much of the older ethic screened by a new semantics and an altered ideology.

Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation.

It is one of nature's ways that we often feel closer to distant generations than to the generation immediately preceding us.

Within your own generation-the same songs, the same wars, the same attitudes toward those wars, the same rules and radio shows in the air-you can gauge the possibilities and impossibilities. With a person of another generation, you are treading water, playing with fire.

The generations of living things pass in a short time, and like runners hand on the torch of life.