Hassan Rouhani Quotes

As times change, so do the way each generation see the world. It is rather like the way our generation came to see our grandparents' views on the Empire and colonies as outdated.

What is amazing for a woman of my age is that I change as the world is changing-and changing very, very fast. I don't think my mother had that opportunity to change.

I think the culture today is very, very different from what it was in the '60s, and I feel lucky that I grew up at a time when I had these very strong female role models.

Every generation is more open to new things.

I feel I grew up in a different century than I live in. I think most of them are changes for the good.

We regard those other cultures, such as that of India, where many people live and believe and behave much as they did 1,000 or 2,000 years ago, as undeveloped.

Things change so fast, you can't use 1971 ethics on someone born in 1971.

Things change in different countries as people grow, and as generations change.

I consider that there are different degrees of civilization and there are many different ways of expressing it. But one is civilized or is not.

I have to choose my words carefully because I don't want to sound like one of those who goes on about how things were better in my day.

Each generation wants new symbols, new people, new names. They want to divorce themselves from their predecessors.

A huge change has taken place in my lifetime.

With the emergence of civilization, the rate of change shifted from hundreds of thousands of years to millennia. With the emergence of science as a way of knowing the universe, the rate of change shifted to centuries.

When people say this isn't the America they grew up in, they're right. Nobody gets to grow old in the America they grew up in.

While the association and its founders and its founders most sincerely appreciate the splendid elements and achievements of the old-time Indian culture and the methods by which early conditions were met, it realizes most keenly the inefficacy of these methods in meeting the conditions of modern times.

We are not primitive. We live differently to you, but we do not live exactly like our grandparents did, nor do you. Were your ancestors 'primitive'? I don't think so. We respect our ancestors. We love our children. This is the same for all people. We are not primitive. We live differently to you, but we do not live exactly like our grandparents did, nor do you. Were your ancestors 'primitive'? I don't think so. We respect our ancestors. We love our children. This is the same for all people.

I think that every generation will say that technology has gone too far. That's probably always going to be the case. We can't even imagine what our children will have in their adult lives.

Times change. Context changes. Just because something is old and a 'part of our history' shouldn't mean we are forced to honor it forever.

Our parents don't always know what's right. It's a new age.

My parents really wanted me to have an arranged marriage when I was younger, but I think they have updated a bit with the times.

What one generation finds ridiculous, the next accepts; and the third shudders when it looks back on what the first did.

Nobody gets to grow old in the America they grew up in.

I am not part of that earlier Australian generation who set off on a deliberate search for fame and fortune in distant lands. My generation was the first that didn't need to. By the 1980's when I left home, our culture had grown deep enough and wide enough to encompass all but the most rarefied of ambitions.

We know that inevitably the millennials will get old and tired again, and then there will be the bilennials or trilennials, or whatever the next generation is, and we're all going to end up on our lawn shaking our fists in a bathrobe yelling at the moon.

What one generation sees as a luxury, the next sees as a necessity.