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Quotes About Generation

So I thought I'd find out for myself and educate my generation on how rave has changed over the last 30 years, and how the creation of music and discovery of music had changed too.
~ Becky Hill
All I wanted to do was create theater for us, for our generation, for the people of this planet. And it's so rare that the art that you are making is reaching a huge mass of people.
~ Phillipa Soo
I'm not that familiar with bhangra or Bollywood music. Maybe it's just a reaction that kids have, that you don't really listen to stuff your parents listened to. I didn't think it was cool.
~ Tony Kanal
A lot of people call horror movies 'campy,' and I can certainly see why they think that they are, but being a product of the 80s, I didn't notice that they were campy - I came from a campy generation. I mean, Ronald Reagan is campy. But I don't think they're campy.
~ Sharon Needles
My dream is to produce a generation of actors who realise what the function of an actor in a movie is supposed to be.
~ Naseeruddin Shah
When I was 18, and when I entered my family business, I soon realised that it wasn't as easy as I thought. I had to deal with people of my father's generation. Building trust was key to doing business.
~ Binod Chaudhary
'Our thing' is turning into 'my thing' within the Mafia, just as the larger American society is facing the new realities of the 'me generation.'
~ Joseph D. Pistone
Going into the 2012 election, I worried that without effectively connecting with the youth vote, the GOP risked losing the millennial generation for the rest of their lives.
~ Margaret Hoover
I've often accused my grandchildren of never having seen one of my films.
~ Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
I remember my grandfather believed women were second-class citizens and told my mother that it was a shame she had brains because she was a girl and shouldn't carry on her education.
~ Sarah Gavron
Each generation in this country gets the responsibility of being the ambassadors for this American democracy that our parents and grandparents fought, bled, and died for.
~ Sheldon Whitehouse
I do sometimes stop and think. I mean, I'm 62 now and I've got a child on my shoulders and he could be my grandson.
~ Les Dennis
My mum, Josephine, is a great believer that you can be whatever you want in life. I was raised as part of the postwar generation and encouraged to do well at school.
~ Tony Hadley
I'm very happy to be part of a generation where you don't have to say that you're gay. It's just like, 'I'm dating a dude,' or, 'I'm dating a girl,' and I love it. I think it's a great time.
~ Keke Palmer
There's a generation now that didn't grow up in nature. Some of these adults are parents and they know that nature is good for their kids but they don't know where to start.
~ Richard Louv
Your parents would not be happy if you came home and said you wanted to grow up to be a chef or a rock star.
~ Jose Andres
Our generation's grown up with the Internet, so it's an extension of our social lives; it's an extension of us. It makes perfect sense for me to use that medium.
~ Chet Faker
I was born in '76, but I didn't get into rock until the early '90s when the grunge stuff started coming out.
~ Marc Martel
A generation of men really built the NFL and gave guys like me a shot, and a lot of these guys are left out in the cold by the league and forgotten.
~ Chris Borland
This devaluing of listening is handed down from generation to generation. There are many children who don't have the experience of being listened to by their parents.
~ Julian Treasure
Coils within coils," murmured the cat. "Fleas upon fleas, idiots begetting idiots—" "What?" "Mmm, just thinking," whispered Mogget. "You should try it sometimes.
~ Garth Nix
The story of the past generation has been that the right has won politically and the left has won culturally.
~ Geoffrey Wheatcroft
It's all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Old-fashioned people think you can have a soul without money. They think the less money you have, the more soul you have. Young people nowadays know better. A soul is a very expensive thing to keep: much more so than a motor car.
~ George Bernard Shaw