Best My Generation Sayings
212 My Generation quotes by 187 unique authors
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I think I'm the most positive guy still going in my generation, and I'm out there to prove that.
— Luther Allison
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For my generation I must have the oracles of God in fresh terms.
— Jim Elliot
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A lot of people from my generation of music are so focused on playing things correctly or to perfection that they're stuck in that safe…
— Dave Grohl
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Most African Americans, especially the men and women from my generation, would accept the nationalist gambit that says only European Americans can be racists, which…
— Anthony Braxton
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Painting is traditional but for me that doesn't mean the academy. I felt a need to paint; I love painting. It was something natural -…
— Gerhard Richter
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I was 21 and looking for work in 1932, one of the worst years of the Great Depression. And I can remember one bleak night…
— Ronald Reagan
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I started when I was 8 years old, which is obviously nowadays pretty late, but I guess in my generation it was all right. I…
— Jana Novotna
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My generation of director has no illusions that we are going to be fed and cared for by subsidized theater in America.
— Diane Paulus
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I always try to set a positive example for my generation and promote confidence.
— Keke Palmer
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The greatest discovery of my generation is that we are unique. The greatest discovery of the next generation, I pray, is that we are one.
— Thomas Leonard
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I never got away from the war. Not because I was obsessed with it in those years, but because it was the event of my…
— Neil Sheehan
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So what are we given? We're also given, my generation, the disillusionment of our parents.
— Jewel
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I owe a debt of gratitude to two other living Justices. Sandra Day O'Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg paved the way for me and so…
— Elena Kagan
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[I was advised] to read Jordan's 'Cours d'analyse'; and I shall never forget the astonishment with which I read that remarkable work, the first inspiration…
— G. H. Hardy
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Our senior officers knew the war was going badly. Yet they bowed to groupthink pressure and kept up pretenses. ...Many of my generation, the career…
— Colin Powell
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Unity will not make us rich, but it can make it difficult for Africa and the African peoples to be disregarded and humiliated. And it…
— Julius Nyerere
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When my generation was your age, we took crazy risks. The wildest thing was - prepare to be shocked - we deliberately ingested carbohydrates!
— Dave Barry
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It was too difficult. People weren't prepared to put in the hours on the donkey work - you know, dates and facts and so on.…
— Sebastian Faulks
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Like most people of my generation, I fell in love with the philosophy of existentialism. There is no particular religious tradition in my work. There…
— Stanley Elkin
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I feel like the Kurt Cobain of my generation, but people just don’t understand me,
— Justin Bieber
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I look at Lil Wayne as being from my generation.
— Timbaland
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I don't want to freak you out, but I think I may be the voice of my generation.
— Hannah
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I'd love to be the political voice of my generation, but that's not my gift.
— Anita Baker
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Historically, in my generation, all of my heroes and heroines have had issues and problems. We all do.
— Anita Baker
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Because of [Amelia Earhart], we had more women available to fly in the 1940's to help us get through World War II. And because of…
— Eileen Collins
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