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Generation Quotes

Maybe our generation is more about sex, but it feels like romance is dying out.

– Orlando Bloom

It would have been more obvious to go into film, based on the generation before me, but the generation before them were all composers or classical musicians.

– Robert Coppola Schwartzman

Obviously all of us have thought about Vietnam, particularly in my generation in Australia that were part of conscription and fought there. Our friends came back, forever changed. So there were a lot of questions.

– Phillip Noyce

You might be the best Hamlet of your generation in the bathroom, but unfortunately, you have to come out and do it on stage, and it’s best to do it to people who would fill the house.

– Roger Rees

Each generation goes further than the generation preceding it because it stands on the shoulders of that generation. You will have opportunities beyond anything we’ve ever known.

– Ronald Reagan

Every generation has to ask difficult questions about what does it mean to follow Jesus.

– Rob Bell

I just didn’t know where I fit in – I didn’t seem to fit in my parent’s generation. I didn’t seem to fit in my own generation. Little by little, this took me into a spiritual search for understanding; a search for meaning and fulfillment.

– Radhanath Swami

Let’s give some substance to patriotism. It may take a generation.

– Richard Dreyfuss

If baking is any labor at all, it’s a labor of love. A love that gets passed from generation to generation.

– Regina Brett

I think my parents were immigrants, you know, so I guess I would be first generation. Growing up in California.

– Phillip Lim

Contrary to the royal and uptight image of polo, I want to bring it to a younger generation. This is a great sport that can have a larger audience and appeal to more people. Sportsmanship is lacking in many other sports that I don’t want to name.

– Randeep Hooda

When I was on ‘Dallas,’ I was known to audiences of the ’80s. And then when my sons, who are in their 30s now, were going to college, ‘Dallas’ was the cult thing to watch because it was being done on the soap channels, so a whole new generation saw it. And then I have the young fans that knew me from ‘Step By Step’ in the ’90s.

– Patrick Duffy

It wasn’t until I was in that world, directing shows and movies, that I realized basically my job is to give back to another generation what the generation before me gave to me.

– Rich Moore

Indeed, an entire generation of Americans has grown to adulthood since the Roe decision of 1973, which held that the right to choose an abortion was a privacy right protected by our Constitution.

– Robert Casey

Engineers are now experimenting with 4,096-line TV systems, suggesting that with the next generation of sets you’ll be able to count the grass blades on the Superbowl field, an obvious lifestyle improvement.

– Seth Shostak

Every generation has a different ways of telling a story. We had a great run in the early ’90s, into the mid-’90s, and we became a little more executive-driven as we got into the 2000s.

– Roy Conli

We have a complex system of government. You have to teach it to every generation.

– Sandra Day O’Connor

When I was publishing my first books, the previous generation of authors was fading away, so I was welcomed because I was a new author.

– Orhan Pamuk

The forces that are in play on climate change essentially revolve around the generation of power, the transportation of goods and services and people, and the sorts of materials that we use to fuel the whole of our civilisation.

– Peter Garrett

Led Zeppelin has been there through three generations of teenage angst. And there’s a generation of kids now who won’t know it, post-Linkin Park.

– Robert Plant

What we are trying to do now, this new generation of African writers, is to write about what it is to be a human being living in a particular African country. These are stories that resonate with anyone, anywhere.

– Petina Gappah

Never before has a civilization reached such a degree of a contempt for life; never before has a generation, drowned in mortification, felt such a rage to live.

– Raoul Vaneigem

If the truth be known, we are on the verge of losing an entire generation of our young people, killing and dying in the streets of America.

– Ron Dellums

I forever felt that I’ve fallen right between the crack of way too young for the first generation of classic rock ‘n’ roll and too old to be brand-new. It’s hard.

– Paul Westerberg

The generation we live in, we’re constantly entertained – we turn our heads this way, and there’s something else to entertain us. Sitting down in one seat for two hours may not be enough anymore.

– Ruthie Ann Miles

After 1929, so many people had been traumatized by the stock market crash that there was a lost generation.

– Ron Chernow

My generation will actually be the first generation that is tamer than the one that came before it, and it will probably be poorer; less fun and less money.

– Shia LaBeouf

On ‘Sufferer,’ I’m talking about the younger generation that has no other option for success than to find a gun somewhere. I try to appeal to them: ‘I know you a sufferer, but it doesn’t mean that you can’t or shouldn’t expect any better.’ It’s a lot different than from what I usually say, like, ‘Get busy, shake that thing.’

– Sean Paul

We see a new generation of Russian authors who are not divided from their Western contemporaries either culturally or philosophically.

– Robert Gottlieb

The public school system doesn’t get everybody. Every generation has its rebels.

– Rush Limbaugh

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