Quotes tagged ‘generation’

“I think a lot of young people feel that way, especially nowadays. Your generation got the terrible idea that it was best to vomit every thought and feeling all over each other. It's a pandemic of over-communication that's led to an absence of intimacy.”

— Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk, Ian Brennan, Georgina Hobart, Gwyneth Paltrow, imdb.com

“This is a generation of delicate snowflakes and terrible chair duckers.”

— Lesley Wake Webster, Arthur Cochran, Bradley Whitford, imdb.com

“We're the first generation that gets to live twice. Our existences are simultaneously experienced and curated. Presented. Packaged. Polished for our own protection.”

— Kevin McManus, Matthew McManus, Peter Maldonado, Tyler Alvarez, imdb.com

“Your generation is so touchy. Information is empowering.”

— Laurie Nunn, Jean Milburn, Gillian Anderson, imdb.com

“Never in our country’s history has a generation been so empowered, so wealthy, so privileged—and yet so empty.”

— Ben Shapiro, amazon.com

“That bit of theatre will haunt our family for a generation.”

— David Benioff, D. B. Weiss, Tyrion Lannister, Peter Dinklage, imdb.com

“Nothing you say can upset us. We're the MTV generation.”

— Gary Apple, Michael Carrington, Bart Simpson, Nancy Cartwright, imdb.com

“If I had a dollar for every time someone over 40 told me my generation sucks... Then I could afford a house in the economy they ruined.”

— ck_9900, reddit.com

“There is a sort of gulf between the older and younger generations. This gulf will have be bridged. There is the feeling that the older and younger generations are quite apart from each other. This is something that should not happen. Whether young or old the entire people should be united.”

— Aung San Suu Kyi, amazon.com

“You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.”

— Brigham Young, goodreads.com

“Hurt people hurt people. That’s how pain patterns gets passed on, generation after generation after generation. Break the chain today. Meet anger with sympathy, contempt with compassion, cruelty with kindness. Greet grimaces with smiles. Forgive and forget about finding fault. Love is the weapon of…”

— Yehuda Berg, goodreads.com

“If your bra rides up in the back, it means the band size is too small. Go get fitted for a new one.”

— Beth Buczynski, distractify.com

“Sometimes what's left behind can grow back better than the generation before.”

— Matthew Broderick, Simba, amazon.com

“Everything is amazing right now, and nobody's happy. ... Now, we live in an amazing, amazing world, and it's wasted on the crappiest generation of just spoiled idiots that don't care. This is what people are like now: they've got their phones and they're like 'ugh, it won't--' GIVE IT A SECOND! It's…”

— Louis CK, youtube.com

“The arts are not just a nice thing to have or to do if there is free time or if one can afford it. Rather, paintings and poetry, music and fashion, design and dialogue, they all define who we are as a people and provide an account of our history for the next generation.”

— Michelle Obama, amazon.com