Shifting Values Quotes

The future ain't what it used to be.

In your early 20s, it was maybe acceptable to have a friend who was taking all of your time and energy and exhausting you and always a drama. When you're in your 30s, or you're starting to have babies, you just can't put up with it anymore, and that's okay, because I think your priorities shift.

True patriotism sometimes requires of men to act exactly contrary, at one period, to that which it does at another.

The minority of one generation is usually the majority of the next.

The older I get, the more things change as to what is important.

I recently turned down a film that I didn't want my kids to see. Priorities shift. Sometimes I'm sad about that, but not enough to do anything about it.

A bride is a bride the first time around. The white dress and the white veil are symbolic. So many people are breaking the rules that people don't know what the rules are.

The 18-year-old me wouldn't understand the 43-year-old me because then I wanted to travel and see the world. But I love being home.

Young people can be the catalyst for starting the effort to redefine what's important in America.

To regard all things and principles of things as inconstant modes or fashions has more and more become the tendency of modern thought.

People all over the world are today questioning matters that only a few generations ago were generally seen as "just the way things are.”

We live in a world of shifting values. The family is falling apart. Parents failing in what they ought to do.

The modernity of yesterday is the tradition of today, and the modernity of today will be tradition tomorrow.

I can remember way back when a liberal was one who was generous with his money.

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.

What used to be considered conservative values... are increasingly becoming more mainstream values.

And with the passing years, what had once seemed like a miracle or the luckiest of chances and which he had always promised himself he would never become enslaved by, has gradually become his sole reason to go on living.

When you're young, there's a whole lot of stuff you say you'll never do. Once you get a little older, the list tends to get shorter.

Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this.

Times change. The vices of your age are stylish today.

Youth is something very new: twenty years ago no one mentioned it.

Those times are over and gone, and good riddance to them, too. We were hopelessly high-spirited. Now we're the tick-waisted generation, dragging along our children behind us and carrying our parents on our backs. And we're in charge, while the figures who used to command our respect are wasting away.

The hero used to be the one in white. Now he is harder to spot.

Sometimes in movies, I still have to be the hero, but it's not all that important to me anymore.

It is impossible to stand upright when one plants his roots in the shifting sands of popular opinion and approval.