America Quote by Jack Kerouac

“The Beat Generation, that was a vision that we had, John Clellon Holmes and I, and Allen Ginsberg in an even wilder way, in…

— Jack Kerouac

Greatest generation came through some stuff that we can't even imagine - the Depression, World War I - and all they wanted after that…

— P. J. O'Rourke

The so-called Beat Generation was a whole bunch of people, of all different nationalities, who came to the conclusion that society sucked.

— John Clellon Holmes

They were like the man with the dungeon stone and gloom, rising from the underground, the sordid hipsters of America, a new beat generation…

— Jack Kerouac

John Clellon Holmes... and I were sitting around trying to think up the meaning of the Lost Generation and the subsequent existentialism and I…

— Jack Kerouac

Here was a new generation, shouting the old cries, learning the old creeds, through a revery of long days and nights; destined finally to…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Your generation - you've not heard the Verve or Jimi Hendrix or Eminem, you've not read The Catcher in the Rye, you've not seen…

— Anonymous

“The epithet was quickly moving toward capitalized status: the Lost Generation. In subsequent generations, similar umbrella identities would be ascribed to each era’s under-thirty…

— Lesley M.M. Blume

“The 80's in America were about building a better future here in America. We came into the generation dancing. We saw an explosion of…

— Phil Mitchell

“The beat generation is a coffeehouse full of people expectantly looking at their watches waiting for the beat generation to come on. *1958”

— Mort Sahl

Luckily, each generation brings forth great writers, actors, directors, and designers.

— Harriet Walter

My generation of Americans, the scions of daring dreamers, the children of the fearlessly faithful and the offspring of many of history's most audacious…

— Cory Booker