Generation Quotes · Page 40

I was part of a generation where kids had a lot of freedom and aimless downtime. I had no scheduled after-school activities.…

— Laura Lippman

“The impact today from the latchkey generational signpost is that Generation Xers tend to be highly independent workers. After”

— Anonymous

The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind.

— James Truslow Adams

The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

— Lee Iacocca

A revolution only lasts fifteen years, a period which coincides with the effectiveness of a generation.

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

Every girl groups energized me, but Girls' Generation's Soo Young became the biggest help to me.

— Jung Kyung-ho

To think about what the American Dream can do across just one generation, in just one lifetime, is truly breathtaking.

— Katie Britt

Part of the reason I moved from law to politics was an increasingly profound belief that how we rebuild after the 2008…

— Keir Starmer

I'm from a generation of Iraq and Afghanistan. Our battleground was where we learned. It's not like the old generation where they…

— Ant Middleton

Engineers are now experimenting with 4,096-line TV systems, suggesting that with the next generation of sets you'll be able to count the…

— Seth Shostak

For the young generation, when they see that there is a film director from Cambodia to go on to be nominated, for…

— Rithy Panh

I just don't want to live in the past. I'm really disappointed by so many people of my generation who - in…

— Billy Corgan

Music has always been in my family down to my dad through my uncle. I'm just the next generation, since it's always…

— Jacob Latimore

One of the frustrating tics of our society's progressive vanguard is the assumption that every evil it discovers was entirely invisible in…

— Ross Douthat

The purpose of the Seder to my mind is to inspire conversations with your family about the human drama and hopefully transmit…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“He thought rightly that we Americans, by inclination at least, have been divided into two kinds: “boomers” and “stickers.” Boomers, he said,…

— Wendell Berry

The measure of our success will be the condition on which we leave the world for the next generation.

— Robert Redford

For my generation of actors, it was about the theatre. Television didn't exist. Coaxial cable didn't exist.

— Martin Landau

We're a lazy, undisciplined generation. I don't exempt myself: I spend way too much, even though I make a good income.

— Ben Stein

I'm from the generation where when we recorded 'Hooked On A Feeling,' we did my vocal live to track. It was all…

— B. J. Thomas

Each generation thinks it fights new battles. But the battles are the same. Only the people are different.

— Chaim Potok

Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Writers such as Richard Powers and the late David Foster Wallace have shown the path to a newer generation of writers for…

— Giles Foden

I hate politics, but I love people and I am committed to truly doing the work to serve the people and hopefully…

— Jasmine Crockett

That was probably the mistake of my generation, that we thought that having sex with anyone would be intimate and it wasn't.

— Erica Jong

Masayoshi Son is one of the most innovative and impactful thinkers and problem-solvers of our generation.

— Ritesh Agarwal

Sometimes I like to think that the responsibility of every new generation of Democrats is to devise a program that mints new…

— Rick Perlstein

Dad was a distant figure, autonomous, a cross between the Pope and Mussolini. He was very Italian, as were all of my…

— Chris Rea

I wanted to work with Cate Blanchett. She is one of the five greatest movie actresses of her generation.

— Alec Baldwin

The future is not a gift: it is an achievement. Every generation helps make its own future. This is the essential challenge…

— Robert Kennedy

Every generation wants to be the last. Every generation hates the next trend in music they can't understand. We hate to give…

— Chuck Palahniuk

Every generation is a secret society and has incommunicable enthusiasms, tastes, and interests which are a mystery both to its predecessors and…

— John Jay Chapman

Every generation feels it has the problems that will destroy it. That's because we can perceive them a long time before we…

— Peter Diamandis

I think, as a generation of British actors, we're becoming a bit soft and too manipulated by the business.

— Aneurin Barnard

We owe it to ourselves and to the next generation to conserve the environment so that we can bequeath our children a…

— Wangari Maathai

Will Generation X and the Millennials do a better job running the world than the boomers have? Let's hope so.

— P. J. O'Rourke

If being a spokesman for a generation is a fleeting occupation, being a symbol of an era is downright dangerous for anyone…

— Jay McInerney

I still can't get used to a smartphone. There's something I really dislike about it, but for a new generation, life without…

— Gaspar Noe

With an older generation, there's some weight carried with the Beatles. There's almost like an untouchable, god-like force field around them.

— Brendon Urie

I did go to Wellesley, a women's college. And I am of a kind of strange generation which is transitional in terms…

— Madeleine Albright