My Generation Quotes

We don't need to be feminist in my generation.

This generation I'm a member of, we're sort of infected by this idea that you had to make the world a better place.

The challenge of today's generation of architects is the environment.

It is very common with artists who are of a generation that has already gone by to get overly concerned with, Oh my God I have to sell to the younger generation.

Everyone in our generation lives in a world where you're surrounded by all sorts of music all the time. People's tastes are made of combinations of genres.

I feel like I'm a product of this generation where everybody listens to charts with diverse music.

I think everybody in my generation, we wanted to be Elvis.

The message "Your body isn't good enough" translates in a little girls mind to "YOU aren't good enough." This becomes a core belief that gets passed on to the next generation.

Babies are unreasonable; they expect far too much of existence. Each new generation that comes takes one look at the world, thinks wildly, "Is this all they've done to it?" and bursts into tears.

You want to teach the next generation so they can learn a little bit faster and a little bit more so everything becomes that much better.

A song is only as strong as its foundation, and when it comes so naturally in any setting, those are the songs that will hopefully outlive you, maybe even outlive the next generation of You.

I don't need fame any more. People are less interested in me in terms of celebrity. I'm happy to see a new generation being the media focus. I'm happy my day is done. It's over.

When my generation was your age, we took crazy risks. The wildest thing was - prepare to be shocked - we deliberately ingested carbohydrates!

My generation is under-entertained.

Jesus continues to offer light, joy, and peace to today's generation.

It's hard for a Jew of my generation, an American Jew, who is philo-Zionistic, not to romanticize Israel.

I'm sick and tired of our generation being called the TV generation. What do you expect? We watched Lee Harvey Oswald get his brains blown out all over. How could we change the channel after that?

I was the only male of the Arnaz family in my generation.

My generation of director has no illusions that we are going to be fed and cared for by subsidized theater in America.

He doesn't translate well into our generation.

I grew up on Nickelodeon.On All That and Are You Afraid of the Dark, and Salute Your Shorts and Rocco's Modern Life and all that. That was my generation.

That definitely I feel is part of my generation: social networking, communication over the Internet, whether it's Skype or IRC or some form of text-based chat, text messaging.

Tell me what are the prevailing sentiments that occupy the minds of your young peoples, and I will tell you what is to be the character of the next generation.

I had heard so much negative talk about our generation, that we're slackers and young fogies, that I knew wasn't true of the people I know.

My generation had Doris Day as a role model, then Gloria Steinem--then Princess Diana. We are the most confused generation.

My generation of young female writers discovered that we could dictate the form and content of our own fiction.

You are all a lost generation. [with credit to Gertrude Stein]

My truth is relevant and my songs are relevant, but I have to recalibrate myself and speed up my vibrations so that I can communicate with the voice of this generation.

I want to inspire the next generation. I want to be in mission control with someone younger than me wanting to break my record.

I don't think that comedians have a tradition of trashing the next generation.

Ours is a lost generation, it may be, but it is more blameless than those earlier generations.

I learned about the benefits and the vast limitations of such types of exploration, as did all my generation.

The other day, someone called me this generation's Bruce Dern - I'd never thought of that, and frankly, I don't know enough of Bruce Dern's work to comment on it, though he is an incredible actor.

I still feel my generation is split on their attitudes.

Really, each era has its own false nostalgia. We all put a picket fence up around something. For my generation it was the '50s, and for other generations it will be something else.

My generation has failed to stop the arms race. But it's really the men who have failed. Now it's up to the women, and I believe they can do it.

You can rave about Stravinsky without the slightest risk of being classified as a lunatic by the next generation .

Preventing the new generation from changing in any deep way is what most societies require of their educators.

Out of the past come the standards for judging the present; standards in turn to be shaped by the practice of present-day dramatists into broader standards for the next generation.

The most important business of one generation is the raising of the next generation. Nothing else you do in life will be as deeply satisfying.

A lot of my generation are living out the un-lived lives of our mothers.

I believe without any doubt that you are the finest generation this Church has ever had.

The best novelist of my generation is an Italian living in Paris, still working and improving - Italo Calvino.

The thing is, our generation, we fight every day to get through life.

I am a child of my generation, and I rejoice that I live in such splendidly disturbing times.

Really, the values under which my generation was raised in the '50s were immigrant values even though we weren't immigrants. The greatest thing you could be was a college-educated Negro.

Rich people, God bless us. We deserve all the opportunities to make sure our country and our blessings continue to the next generation.

Maybe something new is even being done by people who see our generation as an enemy. That can create energy as well.

Believe it, future generations.

China will have the biggest aging crisis that the world has ever seen over the next generation, and this happens at a time when Chinese ambitions, geopolitically speaking, are expanding.