If being a spokesman for a generation is a fleeting occupation, being a symbol of an era is downright dangerous for anyone who has the bad luck to outlive it. – Jay McInerney
I always think about the next generation and creating a different blueprint for them. That’s my goal: to let them know there’s another way. – Janelle Monae
The mandate we have as Jews is for the story of the Exodus from Egypt to be retold every generation. – Ilan Stavans
My generation had to be taken seriously because we were stopping things and burning things. We were able to initiate change, because we had such vast numbers. We were part of the baby boom, and when we moved, everything moved with us. – John Hughes
I think the younger generation, the people poised to dominate the workforce, are more socially conscious. They are more demanding in terms of environment and how that environment contributes to their life. – Helmut Jahn
Tina Fey is part of a generation of women who have changed the face of comedy at ‘Second City,’ ‘SNL,’ in sitcoms and in film. – Janeane Garofalo
All these people that want to make me out as part of Generation X had better watch out, or they’re going to get X’d out themselves. – Jeff Buckley
My mother came from a generation that did not want nannies. She had her first child at 24 and her last – me – at 42. – Janine di Giovanni
Personally, the NSA collecting data on me freaks me out. It totally freaks me out. And yet I’m from the generation that wants to put a GPS in their kids so I always know where they are. – Joss Whedon
We’re raising a generation of kids who are being overly praised for incredibly minor accomplishments. I think it’s counter-productive. – J. K. Simmons
Of course, I’m of the generation that grew up with Hemingway and Faulkner as strong influences. – Italo Calvino
I’ve been very lucky to work on a wide variety of projects, including two long-run and top-10 dramatic television shows. That is why it is so important to offer a helping hand to the next generation of young Latinos coming up behind me. – Jimmy Smits
We were all on this ship in the sixties, our generation, a ship going to discover the New World. And the Beatles were in the crow’s nest of that ship. – John Lennon
I’m regularly speaking at London Business School and Harvard Business School. They’re the next generation of leaders in the fashion industry. – Imran Amed
Every movement that slays its gods creates new ones, of course. I loathe talk of the sixties and seventies being a ‘Greatest Generation’ of artists, but if we’re going to use such idiotic appellations, let this one also be applied to the artists, curators, and gallerists who emerged in the first half of the nineties. – Jerry Saltz
Every generation has to protect every one of their rights, whether that’s freedom of the press, freedom of speech, or freedom of faith. You have to remain diligent. – James Lankford
Each generation wants new symbols, new people, new names. They want to divorce themselves from their predecessors. – Jim Morrison
I think it’s interesting: What is the generational effect of the experience of being a gay person in America? For my generation, it was very difficult. – Ira Sachs
Generally the younger generation are not hard working. They will have to put in more effort to achieve results in tournaments. most of them can perform well but they cannot deliver when they play abroad. – Jahangir Khan
It is a shame that homebrew development can’t be officially sanctioned and supported, because it would be a wonderful platform for a modern generation of programmers to be able to get a real feel for low level design work, to be contrasted with the high level web and application work that so many entry level people start with. – John Carmack
I am concerned with only one thing, the moral and social conditions of my generation. – Joyce Carol Oates
My thing is every generation of Americans has to answer what we call the ‘Superman Question.’ Superman comes, lands in America. He’s illegal. He’s one of these kids. He’s wrapped up in a red bullfighter’s cape. And you’ve got to decide what we’re gonna do with Superman. – Junot Diaz
German militarism and Nazism have devastated twice in our generation the lands of German neighbors. – James F. Byrnes
Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass. – Joseph Addison
After a Polish Pope, whose country was first to be invaded by the Germans in World War Two, we now have someone from the generation drafted at the close of the war. – Horst Koehler
You will attract the younger generation and they might well prove tougher than the older generation. What we are trying to do is to look at the future and see what we can do to bring some stability back to people’s lives. – Ian Botham