My generation Quotes · Page 8

It became obvious to me that the generation who changed the world were my parents' generation, and not only in terms of…

— Linda Grant

Bowie's death is a very emotional thing. My generation of working-class Britain, it feels like we lost our spiritual leader, our guru.…

— Irvine Welsh

So okay, I don't want to be a traitor to my generation and all, but I don't get how guys dress today.…

— Cher

My generation knew pretty well what happened 50 years before our birth. Now I follow all the quiz programs because they are…

— Umberto Eco

Our senior officers knew the war was going badly. Yet they bowed to groupthink pressure and kept up pretenses. ...Many of my…

— Colin Powell

My generation remembered going to the movies as an event. We would see these things, we would bring them home, and we…

— Joe Dante

I think that women of my generation have had a real need to form networks and friendships because it's been, as they…

— Hazel Hawke

I'm not the type to generalise about an entire generation. I think the most general thing I can say, is that things…

— Chris Baio

Albert [Brooks] was rare in that he could make adults laugh. He was a prodigy. At age 15 and 16, he could…

— Rob Reiner

I find artists like Tim Barry, Cory Branan, and Jenny Owen Youngs, these current artists that are doing what they're doing now…

— Chuck Ragan

My generation was advised to focus on one area to excel.

— Sreenivasan

Men from my generation are chauvinist pigs!

— Bebe Buell

My generation knows the cost of short-sightedness in Iraq.

— Conor Lamb

My generation is so intelligent.

— Yungblud

The first novel that I wrote was because I was having very interesting sorts of experiences, for Indians of my generation.

— Karan Bajaj

To be an artist of my generation willing to be unhip -artists were supposed to be like cowboys.

— Deborah Kass

I love dancing in general and making girls dance. My generation doesn't do it enough.

— Jean Dujardin

So what are we given? We're also given, my generation, the disillusionment of our parents.

— Jewel

I truly believe that women of my generation can bring a new cleansing element to American public life.

— Georgie Anne Geyer

For my generation, the monetary union has always been about forging peace.

— Jean-Claude Juncker

In my generation, there was no sushi school, no cooking school, so people have to learn from working.

— Nobu Matsuhisa

Appropriation was the language of my generation in many ways. It came out of Duchamp, Warhol, Johns, Lichtenstein.

— Deborah Kass

If you look at tennis, the girls have become much more attractive; they wear makeup. In my generation, you were a tennis…

— Monica Seles

The men and women of my generation are heirs to that great collective success which has been admired worldwide and of which…

— King Felipe VI

I've been blessed. I grew up and played and worked and created with the Freddie Mercury, the Jimi Hendrix, the Keith Richards,…

— Steven Adler

I was an original Elvis fan. He was the voice of my generation. I was listening to him on the radio when…

— Ronnie Milsap

In a lot of ways I was a generation ahead of my generation; I had a working mother wheneveryone else’s mother was…

— Patricia C. Wrede

In my generation, history was taught in terms of grand figures, men on whom the destiny of the nation hinged, quintessential heroes.

— Barry Unsworth

I've always found that fashion is, first of all, mainly for yourself. So my two icons are, on one side, Little Edie…

— Lou Doillon

Moving swiftly between different arenas like politics, architecture or commercial design is what I would consider defintive of my generation. I am…

— Sarah Morris

I did go to Vietnam in 2000 as a kind of pilgrimage and to feel my generation was very much a part…

— Anne Waldman

I hate organized religion. I think you have to love thy neighbor as thyself. I think you have to pick your own…

— Julia Child

If you're in the heyday of rock and roll and movies, and that's where I grew up. We didn't have to look…

— Billy Bob Thornton

I was 21 and looking for work in 1932, one of the worst years of the Great Depression. And I can remember…

— Ronald Reagan

The biggest problem for my generation is that people who were born years before us have no concept of us at all.…

— Liam Gillick

For those that don't know much about 'American Idiot' or Green Day, just know that it's my generation's The Who's 'Tommy' or…

— Jake Epstein

Most British playwrights of my generation, as well as younger folks, apparently feel somewhat obliged to Russian literature - and not only…

— Tom Stoppard

I got into comics about the same time as music. By 12 years old, I had discovered my dad's killer comic book…

— Alan Robert

At a time when the respectable bourgeois youngsters of my generation were college freshmen, oppressed by simian sophomores and affronted with balderdash…

— H. L. Mencken

And my generation in Brazil was influenced by Cinema Novo. So we're echoing what's been done way in the past.

— Walter Salles