There was a general assumption - that is proving somewhat erroneous - that the baby boomers would continue with the consumption patterns that they established in their youth. Instead, they're doing more like what prior generations did as they got older, and switching their drinking habits to wine and spirits.
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Related I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix. DEYTH BANGER I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES Middle age is when you drink wine.... That combined with the health message means that you get a lot... JON FREDRIKSON Or maybe they just accept that it's wrong in God's eyes, although not in their own, and they'll worr... CRAIG GROESCHEL This generation is not like baby boomers. They are more reserved about writing about themselves. But... ED WILKS I think everyone thinks their dad is a little bit odd or crazy. As they get older, they develop thei... SIMON BIRD Baby boomers get credited with changing society, but I would think the gentlemen who fought in World... CHARLES GALLAGHER We'd like to combine our overall upbeat analysis of consumer spending and retail activity with our b... CHRISTINE CALLIES Once upon a time, they say, there was a girl...there was a boy...there was a person who was in troub... TERRI WINDLING We see a lot of older baby boomers selling their family homes and buying two smaller residences, one... DOMINIC MOCERI When (police) got there, all I wanted was for someone to put their arms around me. Instead, I got pu... DANIEL HOROWITZ They come out with a skill set and a belief that nobody but themselves will control their careers, .... CAROL ALLEN A lot of our clientele are boomers who are homeowners and as the kids get older and they have more t... JANET ARMOUR Oddly, it took a while, but resorts discovered that it's a service industry over the last few years.... GREG DITRINCO There is a long history in country music of songs celebrating drinking and lamenting drinking. Count... CHET ATKINS The people who can afford to move here in their 50s are affluent baby boomers. I think that trend wi... WAYNE HARRIS We're pretty frustrated. The industry is struggling, people are switching to wine and spirits. ED JOHNSON He got these two women to drop the baby off and prior to that we did intercede and apprehend the bab... GORDON BROCK What was my baby thinking when he was down on the ground and they were doing those things to him? Wa... GINA JONES As a panting Tracy Ferris scrambled into the life-pod, this thought was precisely what was running t... CHRISTINA ENGELA That's SHIT! How do you remove it? You just put it inside the trash, easy as that. DEYTH BANGER Ancient Egyptians believed that upon death they would be asked two questions and their answers would... LEO BUSCAGLIA What Fucks me... is that we both are the same... we all walk on the same path... but everything is a... DEYTH BANGER Since the outbreak of war, there has been in our country a steady increase in the consumption of spi... WILLIAM LYON MACKENZIE KING I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words ... JONATHAN SWIFT We know that older people who are light drinkers are usually healthier than their non-drinking peers... KAYE FILLMORE Here is one fact 1 minute to finish the class, 1 day to die, one day behind that fact, one day in th... DEYTH BANGER That is oftentimes the case with actors because the nomadic element of their life means, in a sense,... JOSH LUCAS That is oftentimes the case with actors because the nomadic element of their life means, in a sense,... JOSH LUCAS Millennials, and the generations that follow, are shaping technology. This generation has grown up w... BRAD D. SMITH That change devastated restaurant owners. It shifted the spending patterns of many restaurant patron... DEBORAH DOWDELL There was this assumption that as soon as people got a notion for what broadband was, they would wan... JOE LASZLO Until Americans feel that their core asset - their homes - are stabilized, they are not going to hav... KEVIN O'LEARY Millions of people acknowledge today that they do not know the meaning of life. JAMES C. DOBSON I've got the keys to three doctors' homes. You know what kind of wine they got? I've been drinking w... BOB RUE Philosophy is like wine. There are good years and bad years but, in general, the older the better. ERIC WEINER As the baby boomers like me are retiring and getting ready to retire, they will spend whatever it ta... DAVID RUBENSTEIN When consumers realize they can no longer expect that appreciation bonus to subsidize their consumpt... CHRISTOPHER THORNBERG The two men had a conversation. Brief, cryptic, to the point. As though they had exchanged numbers a... ARUNDHATI ROY Christmas just isn't as important anymore. Americans, especially baby boomers, have started realizin... CARL STEIDTMANN Good sleep habits are very important. Especially in the older children, making sure that they use th... LENORA LEHWALD The U.S. Supreme Court has established that the tribes own their water. What I'd like to focus on is... DAVE FREUDENTHAL I loved the Sunday funnies, and then, as I got a little bit older, I think my dad recognized that it... DANA PERINO The Problem With Most People In Their Lives Is That They Focus On What They Don't Have And What Is H... DR.'S RICK AND SUSANN CRAWFORD When you have a new law like that put into effect, the public focuses on the issue, maybe drivers an... BOB THOMPSON I think it's important that people think about what they are doing and that includes what they a... NICHOLAS STERN It encourages the soldiers to build their team and to get out there and find people that they would ... CAPT. CORY ANGELL We thought with their youth that the full-court press would give them some problems and obviously it... BOB PECHLOFF Most nations, as well as people are impossible only in their youth; they become incorrigible as they... JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU Most nations, as well as people are impossible only in their youth; they become incorrigible as they... JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU One year, my good deed started with deciding to give all my friends makeup from a cruelty-free cosme... JENNA MORASCA It is common to assume that human progress affects everyone- that even the dullest man, in these bri... H.L. MENCKEN Scientists want to search for alien signals because that's what gets them publicity. They are like J... MANU JOSEPH They had this arrogant belief that when baby boomers turn 50, 'they belong to us,' and that just did... DAN GORRELL We want to establish their behavioral patterns before they have Internet technology. Then we can see... JEFFREY COLE The U.S. Supreme Court has established that the tribes own their water. What I'd like to focus o... DAVE FREUDENTHAL This has evolved from an older man's sport to a family sport. Our dads, more or less, were big cowbo... ALAN DEAL Depending on their involvement when they knew, what they did, accessory before the fact, it can beco... CAPT. RICHARD SPIRLET All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w... JOAN DIDION We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It... COLSON WHITEHEAD In a study that I just did, I found that it was older children, not younger children, who felt that ... ELLEN GALINSKY I was more like a middle child. My youngest brother was the baby, so he got all the attention that t... JOHN C. REILLY I read somewhere that writers, as they get older, become more and more perfectionist. Which may be b... TOM WOLFE They got heart, and now they got their heads back in it. People were talking and saying that we coul... BRUCE DURHAM Speed Reader: Nothing more than… "Getting knowledge in a fast way". (Note: What's that?... DEYTH BANGER Now is the time when you see people which you know... but they start ignoring you... and how do you ... DEYTH BANGER I don't know what it's like for a book writer or a doctor or a teacher as they work to get establish... LORETTA LYNN I don't know what it's like for a book writer or a doctor or a teacher as they work to get establish... LORETTA LYNN They were not serving the public interest, but their immediate personal interest, and it was nothing... EDWARD BELLAMY It was always remarkable to me how ignorant the labels were of the listening habits of their own cus... TODD RUNDGREN Engage people with what they expect; it is what they are able to discern and confirms their projecti... SUN TZU The difficult part was getting the people to change their habits so that they behaved more like firs... LEE KUAN YEW [Oddly, for a group so enamored of patterns, local change-ringers fail to see Houston's ascension as... DAVID GRAVES I will continue to make the dolls as long as their little kids that miss their daddy or their mommy ... AMY BERARD Others found the implication odd that they could live their way forever- working and drinking and wa... CRIMETHINC. What was really funny is that as I got older all those guys who called me a sissy in junior high sch... SCOTT HAMILTON What I try to get beyond is playing music at people and, instead, to play music with people because ... AL JARREAU Civil rights happened because youth got involved. The youth stood up and helped to break the pattern... OCTAVIA SPENCER When they were both older artists, they had reached a kind of eminence and recognized that they were... JOHN ELDERFIELD The more our foreign policy is involved in killing innocent civilians, the more the youth will want ... CHAABAN OMRAN There are people all over Australia who use their homes as hubs that they travel from, and they enco... ANDREW FORREST Though all the daughters eventually succeeded in escaping from their families, they felt, even at th... JUDITH LEWIS HERMAN If more people got involved with their local schools, if more companies donated money, a lot of the ... KEVIN FRAZIER Wine makes all sorts of creatures at table. GEORGE HERBERT Where the drink goes in, there the wit goes out. GEORGE HERBERT The wine in the bottell doth not quench thirst.
[The wine in the bottle does not quench thirst.] GEORGE HERBERT From wine what sudden friendship springs? JOHN GAY A medium Vodka dry Martini--with a slice of lemon peel. Shaken
and not stirred. IAN FLEMING Bring me wine, but wine which never grew
In the belly of the grape,
Or grew on vine whose tap-... RALPH WALDO EMERSON When asked what wines he liked to drink he replied, "That which
belongs to another."
- Laerti... LAERTIUS DIOGENES "It wasn't the wine," murmured Mr. Snodgrass in a broken voice,
"it was the salmon." CHARLES DICKENS The conscious water saw its God and blushed.
- Richard Crashaw, RICHARD CRASHAW Ten thousand casks,
Forever dribbling out their base contents,
Touch'd by the Midas finger of ... WILLIAM COWPER Sing! Who sings
To her who weareth a hundred rings?
Ah, who is this lady fine?
The Vine... BARRY CORNWALL (PSEUDONYM OF BRYAN WALLER PROCTER) Sweet is old wine in bottles, ale in barrels. LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) Which cheers the sad, revives the old, inspires
The young, makes Weariness forget his toil,
An... LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) Few things surpass old wine; and they may preach
Who please, the more because they preach in vain,... LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) So Noah, when he anchor'd safe on
The mountain's top, his lofty haven,
And all the passengers ... SAMUEL BUTLER (1) He causeth the grass to grow for the cattle, and herb for the
service of man: that he may bring fo... BIBLE Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his
colour in the cup, when it moveth it... BIBLE
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