#my generation

Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it. ↗

— John Quincy Adams

#cost #freedom #generation #good #hope

The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his attitude of mind. ↗

— James Truslow Adams

#alter #altering #discovery #generation #greatest

My generation is under-entertained. ↗

— Dave Chappelle

#my generation

I have absolutely no idea what my generation did to enrich our democracy. We dropped the ball. We entered a period of complacency and closed our eyes to the public corruption of our democracy. ↗

— Wynton Marsalis

#ball #closed #complacency #corruption #democracy

My generation of bossy, confident, baby-boom women were something brand new in history. Our energy and assertiveness weren't created by Betty Friedan, unknown before her 1963 book, or by Gloria Steinem, whose political activism, as even the Lifetime profile admitted, did not begin until 1969. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#admitted #assertiveness #before #begin #betty

More and more good actors are now transmigrating into the videogame space and playing roles there because it's where my generation of kids get stories from. ↗

— Andy Serkis

#generation #get #good #good actors #into

I don't find the technology threatening. A lot of people my age, my generation, find it difficult to immerse themselves. But I would never preclude the idea of using any technology if I thought it suited the end result. ↗

— Robert Smith

#any #difficult #end #end result #find

Television has dried up for my generation, so it's plays and films. ↗

— Michael Gambon

#films #generation #my generation #plays #television

Most African Americans, especially the men and women from my generation, would accept the nationalist gambit that says only European Americans can be racists, which is an interesting gambit. ↗

— Anthony Braxton

#african #african americans #especially #european #generation

In my generation, history was taught in terms of grand figures, men on whom the destiny of the nation hinged, quintessential heroes. ↗

— Barry Unsworth

#figures #generation #grand #heroes #history