Dean Inge Quotes

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

Isn't it our job to be appalled by our parents? Isn't it every generation's duty to be dismayed by the previous generation? And to assert that we are different - only to discover later that we are distressingly the same?

You have to have a canon so the next generation can come along and explode it.

The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.

Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.

My parents married in 1959 and came to Amsterdam on honeymoon. That was a huge thing, event, for them. Now my children fly off for the weekend to Riga, Prague, or Barcelona.

If anybody comes up to you and says, My kid is a conservative - why is that? you say, Remember in the 60′s when we told you if you kept using drugs your kids would be mutants?

Every third our fourth generation that comes along refuses to accept the way their parents and grandparents are living. They just don't want any part of it, and Millennials are doing that in a way. The Millennials, you talk to a lot of their parents, and they don't recognize 'em when they compare them to themselves.

Until you're prepared to kill your parents, you're not really prepared to change the country because our parents are our first oppressors.

You either become like your parents or you become the opposite of your parents. And I like to think that I'm the opposite of my parents.

The way I was parented did affect my parenting - probably in the reverse. My dad was pretty strict, and the next generation probably wants to be less strict.

I love it that my father is such a classical musician and such a traditionalist, and at the same time has had a wild life and a crazy time.

My mom was a history teacher when I was a kid, so I hated history out of rebellion.

What we need to do is open our eyes, smell the coffee and just understand what the society has become. Today, I can discuss many things with my 15-year-old son which I could not talk about with my father.

My parents aren't really conformists.

Generation after generation, there is this never-ending, contemptuous, condescending attitude to the next generation or the next way of thinking: music, art, politics, whatever. And I have never been like that.

My mother is a very liberal wife and mother, so there was no peer pressure to marry.

The way I'm raising my kids is so different than the way I was raised.

While I loved my family, I would always have this association with my father. I would always be coming up against that conservatism. It was just liberating to be in London.

I realize that there's a whole generation of kids out there like me who are totally disregarding the moral values taught to us by our parents.

Each generation criticizes the unconscious assumptions made by its parent. It may assent to them, but it brings them out in the open.

Someone's parents have been singing entirely the wrong sort of songs.

The greatest gift a parent can leave a child is that parent's own independence.

First your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.

Those parents who do not educate their sons are their enemies; for as is a crane among swans, so are ignorant so are ignorant sons in a public assembly.