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Quotes About Generation

If you're going to reboot something, reboot it in a totally original way that speaks to a new generation.
~ Toby Stephens
You can't tell an 18-year-old to keep it down and turn off Britney Spears or whatever it is that they listen to.
~ Mary Gaitskill
I'm of a generation of director that came up understanding special effects.
~ Jon Favreau
Dogs are a companion species. It's about time - you have an animal for about 15, 16 years, a generation. That time holds so much. You might have had five or six relationships with human beings but one dog.
~ Eileen Myles
Married people from my generation are like an endangered species!
~ Patrice Leconte
You can try to reach an audience, but you just write what comes out of you and you just hope that it is accepted. You do not write specifically to a generation.
~ Leon Uris
You look around our audiences, and you see the spectrum - old fans and young people.
~ Rickey Medlocke
I write more for the children of the computer revolution, who are also interested in speculation and exploring the human condition, but approach it from an information perspective.
~ Charles Stross
Sometimes, reading a blog, which I do infrequently, I see that generations of Americans have been wilfully crippled, and can no longer spell or write a sentence.
~ Alice Walker
We are from a swipe-right generation, and that just comes to, 'Oh you're cute, let's hook up,' and that's that. Where is actual, genuine connection that comes from spending quality time with someone?
~ Noah Centineo
I wanted to look at the upper-middle-class scene since the war, and in particular my generation's part in it. We had spent our early years as privileged members of a privileged class. How were we faring in the Age of the Common Man? How ought we to be faring?
~ Simon Raven
Every generation comes upon the movie again, and then, invariably, the books have a spike in sales because people want to read more about Mary Poppins.
~ John Lee Hancock
One has to nurture a new generation, to raise children in the spirit of Islam.
~ Akhmad Kadyrov
Bringing an end to the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians may help the young Arab generation to realise their aspirations. Israel is more than willing to offer our experience in building a modern economy in spite of limited resources to the whole region.
~ Shimon Peres
The baby boomers are the most spoiled, most self-centered, most narcissistic generation the country's ever produced.
~ Steve Bannon
My kids are jaded, spoiled, entitled as hell.
~ Mark Henry
So many people's parents separate and for my generation it is very normal. But I remember feeling as though nobody ever spoke about it.
~ Jessica Barden
I'm speaking for all of us. I'm the spokesman for a generation.
~ Bob Dylan
My older sister was at the cusp of new wave, and I had older brothers from my father's first marriage who were rock 'n' roll guys, so I was exposed to a lot of popular culture.
~ Paul Thomas Anderson
From my parent's generation the idea was not that marriage was about some kind of idealized, romantic love. It was a partnership. It's about creating family. It's about creating offspring.
~ Aasif Mandvi
THE old man died beneath the wheels of the twentieth century. There was nothing left but stains, bloodstains and fragments of flesh . . . And the same thing is happening to my generation.
~ Dambudzo Marechera
Every generation has the obligation to free men's minds for a look at new worlds . . . to look out from a higher plateau than the last generation.
~ Ellison Onizuka
The young man who joins a political party is a traitor to his generation and to his race.
~ Corneliu Zelea Codreanu
Believe me; all evil comes from the old. They grow fat on ideas and young men die of them.
~ Jean Anouilh