My Generation Quotes

The invention of film has given our generation the dubious advantage of watching our acting heroes deteriorate before our eyes.

My generation never experienced (fortunately) that type of collective tragedy, where everybody goes totally crazy and turns the world into a gigantic nightmare.

Bill Clinton did midnight basketball. He is not looked at by this current generation of Democrats as anywhere near the hero he was back in the nineties.

My generation was somewhat between things, neither free nor much supported by whatever held us in.

I think as time goes on that generation of rappers who's making it now is gonna face the same thing that my generation was facing, which is the decrease of sales. The decrease of hard-copies.

I'm not sure how anyone with a soul can make jokes about the passing of one of the most talented artists this generation will see.

I think Serena Williams is the best tennis player of this generation, if not the best ever. It is amazing for her to be playing as well as she is at the age of 31.

Sustainable development is not an option! It is the only path that allows all of humanity to share a decent life on this, one planet. Rio+20 gives our generation the opportunity to choose this path.

I think we're seeing that the way we've done parenting cannot be sustainable in this generation, for sure.

The younger generation of performers really enjoy their success. Its like they know their moment is here right now and probably won't be here in a few years.

Women in our generation, we were taught we can be and do anything as long as we work hard. But you can't work hard enough for two people.

Luckily, growing up "unfinished" can make geeks the very best people to guide and nurture the next generation of outsiders: We know you don't have to be finished to be awesome.

My generation fought very hard for feminism, and we fought very hard to not be labeled as you had to have a husband or you had to be in a relationship, or you were somehow not a cool chick.

So many people of my generation who served in the government were prisoners of the Cold War culture, still are.

I've always felt my role in life was to be a mentor. If I can do that with a younger generation, that's my goal.

The truth of it is that every singer out there with songs on the radio is raising the next generation. So make your words count.

The most enduring legacy of President Barack Obama is going to be a new generation of leaders standing up for liberty.

My generation in the UK, they're very apathetic, a lot of them.

Big banks are more dangerous than standing armies, and the practice of borrowing and spending money to be paid back by the next generation is stealing from their future.

Apple has struck a cultural nerve, especially with Generation X and Gen Y, while Windows and PC are viewed in essence as 'My parents' computer'.

I look at Lil Wayne as being from my generation.

I have been involved with science and math education my whole life. My hope is to continue to promote the love of these beautiful disciplines to the next generation.

I still believe that term limits is the best way to ensure that the next generation, not the next election, is the central concern in our elected bodies.

Why is this generation looking to aging icons like John Lennon and Bob Dylan for inspiration? Why not raising up their own icons?

I think my generation was one of the last to remember the first days of the internet.

You can't be a poet certainly of my generation and not have deep in your animal brain the comment of William Carlos Williams, no ideas except in things.

But the point is to get a whole new generation of people and people in general more re-engaged in news, and this has happened a lot since September 11th of course.

We learned some bad things, and the Vietnam War led to some bad conclusions. We're not the greatest generation, that's for sure.

Harvard students have completed more English courses and less forward passes than any school in this generation.

I feel like I've been very fortunate in that I've stuck like a burr to the dog-leg of the next generation of nerdism. I've been carried into the XXIth century on Bill Gates' pants-cuff.

Like many nonconformist and beat generation writers, William S. Burroughs takes the outcasts of society as his theme.

You have to find a way to not become bitter and live within the parameters of the situation and laugh your way through it…and you hope for a better day for the next generation.

After so many years of whispery, DIY vocals, there's this new generation of voices that are really starting to burst through the seams.

I don't want to name any names, but I've worked on television shows where there's a guy writing for my generation who's like 60 - and it doesn't work.

I really do not understand the members of my generation.

My father was like the Old Testament. I am the New Testament. I am part of a new generation. In time, people will realize this.

In those days we did not trust anyone who had not been in the war, but we did notcompletely trust anyone.

Their manners are more gentle, kind, than of our generation you shall find.

The greatest discovery of our generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. As you think, so shall you be.

The young man pities his elders, fearing the day he, too, will join their ranks. The elderly man pities the younger generation, well-knowing the trials and tribulations that lie ahead of them.

I hear a lot of people say, 'teenagers of this generation are so lost.' But I always wonder what they have been doing to help them discover themselves.

I am suggesting that we don’t put the “income” cart before the “contentment” horse.

Our career mantra should be learn, relearn, repeat.

There remains a natural career progression even though the tougher job climate seeks to delay it.

What someone may lack in talent can be more than made up for in self-motivation, self-direction, and follow-through.

Do you want a level of income to fit your lifestyle or a lifestyle to fit your income level?

In the name of all that is holy, please consider the wages of a particular profession before you select that degree plan.

The construct of retirement is dubious at best and a farce at worst. Expectations contrary to this are to be dashed.

Labor saving devices have destroyed many jobs but have given rise to many new ones. It simply is up to us if we are going to resist or embrace the future.

Whereas previous generations had to face some unpredictability, current generations are facing unprecedented levels of instability.