When I was a kid, the people of my generation didn't want to be writers, they wanted to be rock stars. Rock… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
I'm 33, my generation, when I was young, we'd go out into the woods for the entire day and come back for… — Lissie Copy Share Image
South Central is just who I am. Even though I have a nice house, nice family, the rest of my generation is… — Ice Cube Copy Share Image
I get the, you know, 'In my generation, we all had victory gardens, we all participated in this country's success.' It's that… — Patty Murray Copy Share Image
I am often asked why I started to write poetry. The answer is that my motivation sprang from a visceral need to… — Linton Kwesi Johnson Copy Share Image
If you grew up in my generation, you're going to be influenced by Run DMC, the Beastie Boys and also listen to… — Vanilla Ice Copy Share Image
Do excellent work for Christ. So that's my heart. It's always been. And I want to be the best I can be.… — Ricky Skaggs Copy Share Image
A lot of people from my generation of music are so focused on playing things correctly or to perfection that they're stuck… — Dave Grohl Copy Share Image
My generation never experienced (fortunately) that type of collective tragedy, where everybody goes totally crazy and turns the world into a gigantic… — Roselyne Bosch Copy Share Image
You say that you hope I will be recognized as the best novelist of my generation. I want you to know now… — Jean Stafford Copy Share Image
We not only grew up on Be-Bop; Be-Bop raised us. For my generation, Be-Bop came on like a light bulb going flash… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
I don't want to live in a bubble, in my craft or in the world...I can't, I would be cheating myself out… — Diane Lane Copy Share Image
I don't want to name any names, but I've worked on television shows where there's a guy writing for my generation who's,… — Zachary Knighton Copy Share Image
When my generation was your age, we took crazy risks. The wildest thing was - prepare to be shocked - we deliberately… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Most African Americans, especially the men and women from my generation, would accept the nationalist gambit that says only European Americans can… — Anthony Braxton Copy Share Image
My generation fought very hard for feminism, and we fought very hard to not be labeled as you had to have a… — Stevie Nicks Copy Share Image
I don't think for this generation, but for my generation and my father's generation, men had difficulty in accessing emotion and then… — Liam Neeson Copy Share Image
I grew up with video games. My generation kind of grew up with the Nintendo and the Sega Genesis. Then, I had… — CC Sabathia Copy Share Image
I was raised in a time where children were still seen and not heard basically, so I think a lot of us… — Blythe Danner Copy Share Image
I grew up on Nickelodeon.On All That and Are You Afraid of the Dark, and Salute Your Shorts and Rocco's Modern Life… — Drake Bell Copy Share Image
Boys from my generation all love Jim Carrey! But you know, just being in his house with him and pitching jokes that… — John Francis Daley Copy Share Image
Everything is very convenient now and it would be real nice if somehow people started going back to the movie theater. And… — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
My first understanding of HIV and AIDS was like everybody else from my generation. In the mid-'80s, we heard about this, and… — Annie Lennox Copy Share Image
I feel lousy about the pain that I've caused my wife and kids. I feel guilty and conscience-stricken, and all of those… — William Holden Copy Share Image
I kind of dislike 'For Whom the Bell Tolls,' but most of Hemingway in general, mainly because his stylistic shenanigans ruined so… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
My generation of Americans, the scions of daring dreamers, the children of the fearlessly faithful and the offspring of many of history's… — Cory Booker Copy Share Image
When school district officials literally laughed at the notion that the Me Generation — this was the label for my generation —… — Wendy Kopp Copy Share Image
In my generation, except for a few people who'd gone into banking or nursing or something like that, middle-class women didn't have… — Julia Child Copy Share Image
Young people today are being robbed. Of their rights. Of their freedom. Of their dignity. Of their futures. The culprits? My generation… — Tom G. Palmer Copy Share Image
My mother told me two things constantly. One was to be a lady, and the other was to be independent. The study… — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
But look, I was born in 1956, the peak year for births in US history. I think I'm very representative of many… — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
I'm a feminist, but I think that romance has been taken away a bit for my generation. I think what people connect… — Emma Watson Copy Share Image
For what my generation did and went through and so forth, and what these glamour boys earn for what little they play,… — Chuck Bednarik Copy Share Image
Jeff Smith was the Julia Child of my generation. When his television show, 'The Frugal Gourmet,' made its debut on PBS in… — Alton Brown Copy Share Image
I think my generation has had an unbelievably easy time profiting from the world that was made for us by our parents… — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
Really, each era has its own false nostalgia. We all put a picket fence up around something. For my generation it was… — Gary Ross Copy Share Image
I find more people want to eat a little less. My generation, we're all watching our figures. They want to go to… — Todd English Copy Share Image
The battle with Men Who Explain Things has trampled down many women - of my generation, of the up-and-coming generation we need… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
It was feminism that made it possible for women to go to the Ivy League and women to be astronauts and women… — Debora Spar Copy Share Image
