#generation

I've been pitching a show of five female stand-up comedians through the generations, from Phyllis Diller to Amy Schumer, so when I got an e-mail asking me if I would participate in the Women in Comedy Festival, I was thrilled. ↗

— Wendy Liebman

#asking #been #comedians #comedy #e-mail

I think my parents were immigrants, you know, so I guess I would be first generation. Growing up in California. ↗

— Phillip Lim

#first #generation #growing #growing up #guess

Trouble is, kids feel they have to shock their elders and each generation grows up into something harder to shock. ↗

— Ben Lindsey

#each #elders #feel #generation #grows

There was a generation of people who moved here to make something of themselves. They had to really struggle and created really something on their own apart from a lot of attention. It was a really exciting time here. ↗

— Arto Lindsay

#attention #created #exciting #exciting time #generation

For generations, people have come to U.S. shores to seek opportunity. It's what my grandfather did a century ago, when he came to Seattle, and worked as a houseboy just one mile from the Washington State governor's mansion that I was privileged to inhabit for eight years. ↗

— Gary Locke

#came #century #come #did #eight

I grew up in kind of the last generation of Canadians who thought things that were happening in Britain were more important, almost, than what was happening in Canada. And my mother was fervently of that opinion. ↗

— Robert MacNeil

#britain #canada #canadians #fervently #generation

Every few generations there are people who come along that change the way we look at the world, for musical enthusiasts Monk is one of these individuals. ↗

— John Conyers

#change #come #enthusiasts #every #few

It's like this - these five members have been influenced of course by other groups, because that's where this generation's groups came from - an environment like the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the Yardbirds, and The Who. People like that. ↗

— Alice Cooper

#because #been #came #course #environment

Women will only have true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation. ↗

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

#equality #generation #men #next #only

Who will take responsibility for raising the next generation? ↗

— Ruth Bader Ginsburg

#next #raising #responsibility #take #who