“it takes as long as three generations of hard work, three generations of sacrifice to correct the wrong!”

“He was a true English butler, just like his father before him, and his grandfather before that. Three generations; bred and butlered.”

“Three generations of women out on the front porch, four counting little Emily, trying to put words around a past and a future that could never be explained.”

“One reason why the cycle of archetypes recurs is that each youth generation tries to correct or compensate for what it perceives as the excesses of the midlife generation in power. For example, Boomers (a Prophet generation, whose strength is individualism, culture and values) raised Millennial children (a Hero generation, whose strength is in collective civic action). Archetypes do not create archetypes like themselves, they create opposing archetypes. Your generation isn’t like the generation that shaped you, but it has much in common with the generation that shaped the generation that shaped you.”

“There are three things that none of the young men of the present generation can do.They can't sit over their wine;they can't play at wist;and they can't pay a lady a compliment.”

“The terrorism has been a generation growing. It'll take a generation to knock it out.”