My generation Quotes · Page 3

I filled my sketchbook with drawings, very much as any educated girl of my generation might have kept a diary.

— Gabriele Munter

My generation had the best years. We missed the Second World War and caught the outburst of rock 'n' roll.

— Georgie Fame

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

— David Mamet

I'd like to be remembered as good person and as one of the best comedians of my generation.

— Hannibal Buress

I wanted to make some of the really important things of my generation and some of the biggest.

— Niki de St. Phalle

So there really was a whole series of things that took the women of my generation a little bit of time to…

— Madeleine Albright

The trimmings of wealth are not as important to me and my generation as they were to my parents' generation.

— Ian Schrager

I am concerned with only one thing, the moral and social conditions of my generation.

— Joyce Carol Oates

I've never really acquired any facility for working on the computer, though one day I think I would like to. My generation…

— Michael Bierut

Michel Houellebecq is the most interesting, provocative and important European novelist of my generation. Period. No one else comes close. He has…

— Bret Easton Ellis

It was then, I think, that I discovered that the best way of bringing a medieval subject home to my generation was…

— Laurence Housman

I can't think of anything specific growing up that pointed me toward NASA at all. I was interested in the Moon landings…

— Laurel Clark

Really, the values under which my generation was raised in the '50s were immigrant values even though we weren't immigrants. The greatest…

— Henry Louis Gates

When you're young, with less on the line, it's easier to be audacious, to experiment. So I introduced the concerns of my…

— Garry Trudeau

Photographs are still always depictions, it's just that for my generation the model for the photograph is probably not reality any more,…

— Thomas Ruff

We are working to understand the tastes of people born in the 1980s and 1990s - it is very different from my…

— Zong Qinghou

Church is missing transcendence. My generation was raised on a religion of moral control. Do this. Don't do that. And a lot…

— Matt Chandler

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

If my sons are to become the kind of men our daughters would be pleased to live among, attention to domestic details…

— Mary Blakely

I have three children, and they have never spent a minute unsupervised in their lives. My generation overcompensated like mad. I'm not…

— Brett Morgen

One of the things I know about my family, my generation, and my ethic background is that we put in work and…

— Eric Thomas

You are great young people. I have said again and again, we have the finest generation of young people ever in the…

— Gordon B. Hinckley

In my generation, this was not the first occasion when the strong had attacked the weak.Communism was acting in Korea just as…

— Harry S. Truman

In my grandparents' time, it was believed that spirits existed everywhere - in trees, rivers, insects, wells, anything. My generation does not…

— Hayao Miyazaki

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

— Russell Hoban

I look at other members of my generation who have basically done one thing, and one thing well, and have been handsomely…

— Billy Corgan

I think there are very few people, in my generation at least, that are that passionate about what they do.

— Sasha Grey

The difference between my generation of actors and their generation is that they were bigger than life. We are not bigger than…

— Bruce Dern

I always try to set a positive example for my generation and promote confidence.

— Keke Palmer

Artists of my generation were not educated. We were not given the equipment because it was generally believed to be irrelevant.

— Eric Fischl

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

— Erica Jong

I'm not too embarrassed to say I'm the definition of the target audience. This is my generation, the one of exalting music…

— Jonathan Lethem

My father's generation gave to my generation a land of wealth and purpose and world economic dominance.

— Paul Tsongas

I was trained in Army Intelligence, but spent most of my army career in the infantry. But like many people of my…

— Nelson DeMille

I think people of my generation became journalists - you know, right after the broadcast pioneer fathers - because we wanted to…

— Tom Brokaw

Making systems work is the great task of my generation of physicians and scientists. But I would go further and say that…

— Atul Gawande

A lot of people from my generation can't write songs anymore, or it's really hard and it's an unpleasant experience. I don't…

— Robbie Robertson

I know, for me, you know, my generation - I never would have known anything about Robert Preston's performance in 'The Music…

— John Lloyd Young

Obviously all of us have thought about Vietnam, particularly in my generation in Australia that were part of conscription and fought there.…

— Phillip Noyce

I wear jeans and a T-shirt sometimes. I just like clothes - since the first time I can remember, like age ten…

— Paul Weller