Generation Quotes

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

— Carla Bruni

You are all a lost generation.

— Gertrude Stein

Each generation has to reinvent spirituality.

— Susan Sontag

“we mistake induction for generation.”

— Richard Fariña

The beat generation (coined in Playboy)

— Jack Kerouac

D-Generation X rules the wrestling world.

— Shawn Michaels

I'm not from the generation that took chances.

— John Bishop

Our generation is seriously fucked up.

— Anonymous

It's sometimes comical to hear the younger generation ask their peers to repeat themselves.

— Billy Graham

Let's give some substance to patriotism. It may take a generation.

— Richard Dreyfuss

“Each generation must discover its own mission or drown into the well of oblivion”

— Thabiso Monkoe

I'm from the Vietnam generation. I didn't serve.

— Al Franken

The future belongs to those who give the next generation reason for hope.

— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

If you are a successful woman, that can inspire the next generation.

— Susie Wolff

“For our generation walks as in Hades, without the divine.”

— Friedrich Holderlin

You are where you are because the generation before you paid attention to their broken heart.

— Andy Stanley

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

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

— Wangari Maathai

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

— Aneurin Barnard

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

When our children and grandchildren look back on this period, one question will overwhelm all the rest: Did we do everything in…

— George W. Bush

We've been at war for 10 years with this generation of Marines. We've seen women do a whole lot of things between…

— Loretta Reynolds

The preoccupations of young women-their looks, their clothes, their social life-don't seem to change much from generation to generation. But in every…

— Elisabeth Elliot

At 80 million, millennials, born between 1980 and 2000, are the largest generation in history. Yet they are a demographic Congress has…

— S.E. Cupp

Our country's history is a generation-spanning journey to effectuate the notion that 'all men are created equal' for the members of our…

— Raja Krishnamoorthi

Maybe the bar is low, but most of the strips that are 50, 60, 70 years old that are on their second…

— Stephan Pastis

The current economic climate means getting out of college is no guarantee of getting a job, and no guarantee of a satisfying…

— Lena Dunham

At the same time the folk boom was happening, the civil rights movement was happening, the anti-war movement was happening, the ban…

— Arlo Guthrie

This generation may either be the last to exist in any semblance of a civilised world or that it will be the…

— Richard St. Barbe Baker

“Generation after generation of short-spanned living creatures has ripened and rotted, they looking calmly on, superior in their unwithering amaranthine bloom—generation after…

— Rhoda Broughton

“Brett and Alex Harris posed serious, exciting questions to our generation in their book, Do Hard Things: Could it be teenagers today…

— Fred Stoeker

“When Baby Boomers grow up and write books to explain why one or another individual is successful, they point to the power…

— Peter Thiel

When a generation watches the young ones, their future, their responsibility, grow up, and when what they are to inherit is pitiful…

— Doris Lessing

“A new generation is growing up in our midst, a generation actuated by new ideas and new principles. It is serious and…

— James Joyce

“Gen Zers were small children on 9/11/01. They graduated from high school and (maybe) went through college or university during the deepest…

— Bruce Tulgan

“My generation was weaned on subliminal advertising, stupid television, slasher movies, insipid grocery-store literature, MTV, VCRs, fast food, infomercials, glossy ads, diet…

— Marya Hornbacher