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Generation Quotes

The next generation of innovators, who need neutrality the most, are not at the bargaining table. They’re hard at work in their labs or classrooms, dreaming of the next big thing, and hoping that the Internet is as open to them as it was to the founders of Google.

– Edward Felten

My generation of Americans was the first to really care about racism and sexism, not to mention the I Ching, plus, of course, the Earth.

– P. J. O’Rourke

This is the generation whose first cry of life was the Hungarian uprising.

– Joseph Brodsky

The truth of the matter is, all of those guys on Star Trek: The Next Generation actually want to be me. These impersonations they do are just some way of trying to feel what it must be like to be me. And I understand that! Because it feels really good to be Patrick Stewart!

– Patrick Stewart

My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our Cabernet stage.

– Peggy Noonan

If I could work with Eddie Murphy on ‘SNL,’ I think I could quit comedy forever. For me and my generation, he’s God.

– Michael Che

I think there’s a growing courage among the younger generation of American writers. Because of the more superficial treatment of characters taking place in cinema, they have had to deal with that by digging deeper into who these people are.

– Mohsin Hamid

This scepticism is the same scepticism I heard a generation ago in the USSR when few thought that a democratic transformation behind the iron curtain was possible.

– Natan Sharansky

When you’re a caregiver, you need to realize that you’ve got to take care of yourself, because, not only are you going to have to rise to the occasion and help someone else, but you have to model for the next generation.

– Naomi Judd

My father’s generation’s crisis was fighting fascism. Ours is fighting climate change. It is much harder because you can’t see it, it is not an obvious threat. But the solution is in our hands.

– Nicholas Stern

You were not created to just get by with an average, unrewarding, or unfulfilling life. God created you to leave your mark on this generation.

– Joel Osteen

I’m showing the younger generation your career doesn’t have to be over when you’re 16-years-old.

– Nastia Liukin

Every generation gets the Constitution that it deserves. As the central preoccupations of an era make their way into the legal system, the Supreme Court eventually weighs in, and nine lawyers in robes become oracles of our national identity.

– Noah Feldman

Marine Le Pen belongs to her generation, I belong to mine. I got into politics for Marine Le Pen and with her as party leader.

– Marion Marechal-Le Pen

Hardly any generation wants to take the whole of the last generation, it just wants to take its best bits.

– Ninette de Valois

Television has dried up for my generation, so it’s plays and films.

– Michael Gambon

This is the new wave, the new generation of terrorism. It’s gone viral. It’s very dangerous, and it’s very hard to stop.

– Mike McCaul

I’m sure it’s why I’m such an odd duck in my feminist generation, because I’ve always been equally fair to men.

– Nancy Friday

The only way you can invent tomorrow is if you break out of the enclosure that the school system has provided for you by the exams written by people who are trained in another generation.

– Neil deGrasse Tyson

I always had a sense that I would fall in love with Tokyo. In retrospect I guess it’s not that surprising. I was of the generation that had grown up in the ’80s when Japan was ascendant (born aloft by a bubble whose burst crippled its economy for decades), and I’d fed on a steady diet of anime and samurai films.

– Junot Diaz

As a first generation Jewish American, I have witnessed firsthand Jewish immigrants who have come to this Nation in order to create a better life for themselves, their families, and future generations.

– Jan Schakowsky

‘General Hospital’ was so massive in the 80s and that’s when people my age or even younger watched that show. A generation grew up on that show, Luke and Laura, I came in on the cusp of that so there’s still a lot of ‘Frisco.’

– Jack Wagner

Every generation is equidistant from God.

– Leopold Von Ranke

I will go down as the voice of this generation, of this decade, I will be the loudest voice.

– Kanye West

No member of our generation who wasn’t a Communist or a dropout in the thirties is worth a damn.

– Lyndon B. Johnson

I’m from New Orleans, which is all about direct engagement out in the street with all the parades and Mardi Gras Indians and jazz funerals. I’m trying to take that and put it into my generation, a group that doesn’t have enough joy and celebration in their lives.

– Jon Batiste

With artists of my own generation there was at first no group identity – and never a clique.

– Kenneth Noland

Here’s my thinking: Since tax reform only occurs once a generation, let’s not tweak what we have and call it a day.

– Kevin Brady

Yes, I was slightly outside everything when I was growing up. My mother jokes that I was exchanged at birth. She brought us up to have traditional values. She was absolutely not part of the ’60s generation.

– Janet McTeer

Gen Y is really quite distinct from Gen X; it’s really self-involved and very narcissistic – their cameras are filled with pictures of themselves; Facebook, it’s about me. It’s a generation that’s been pampered by their parents and their schools, given prizes for just taking part.

– Marcus Buckingham

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