I believe I belong to the last literary generation, the…

“Generation Y are everything you feared. They’re everything your worst nightmares conjured up. They’re lazy, apathetic, unoriginal, scared of innovation, scared of difference, just…

— Sarra Manning

It may be that the most striking thing about members of my literary generation in retrospect will be that we were allowed to say…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Even if the story relating to some of them may not belong to literary history, it certainly does belong in the story of my…

— Arthur Schnitzler

Literature is the safe and traditional vehicle through which we learn about the world and pass on values from on generation to the next.…

— Laurie Anderson

Divorce is my generation's coming of age ceremony - a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.

— Erica Jong

I became the voice of a generation in a very surprising way, because many Iranians recognize themselves in it. But that is not what…

— Marjane Satrapi

There's a whole generation coming up behind us that was engaged, inspired, worked for change during the course of my presidency, saw what was…

— Barack Obama

The next generation will remake the world in a way that allows us to live in a more sustainable way, both personally and globally.

— Arianna Huffington

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

— Thea Gilmore

That which is truly human no generation learns from the one before it. No generation learns from another how to love. No generation has…

— Soren Kierkegaard

What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations ... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of…

— Hannah Arendt

Every generation tries to put its doctrine on a high shelf where the children can not reach it.

— Walter Rauschenbusch

We are the WTF generation: Wikipedia, Twitter and Facebook.

— Anonymous

Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors.

— Emile M. Cioran

If every nation gets the government it deserves, every generation writes the history which corresponds with its view of the world.

— Elizabeth Janeway