#my generation

In Finland, we learned quite a lot from our own civil war. The wounds were visible when I was a boy, but my generation went into the Second World War and it united the Finnish nation, so I do not see any more wounds. ↗

— Harri Holkeri

#boy #civil #civil war #finland #finnish

I was lucky, as many of my generation was, in having a man like Dr. King in our lives. He came at a time that we needed to take a long look at each other and see how similar we were. ↗

— Lena Horne

#dr #each #generation #having #how

It was then, I think, that I discovered that the best way of bringing a medieval subject home to my generation was not to be medieval in its treatment. ↗

— Laurence Housman

#best way #bringing #discovered #generation #home

Anyone of my generation who tells you he hasn't 'done Brando' is lying. ↗

— James Caan

#brando #done #generation #hasn #lying

In my generation, except for a few people who'd gone into banking or nursing or something like that, middle-class women didn't have careers. You were to marry and have children and be a nice mother. You didn't go out and do anything. I found that I got restless. ↗

— Julia Child

#banking #careers #children #except #few

I was the Marlon Brando of my generation. ↗

— Bette Davis

#generation #i #marlon #marlon brando #my generation

In the 21st century, I think it's fair to say, homosexuality is more accepted in Britain and it's wonderful that my generation has been able to grow up with that. ↗

— Dan Stevens

#able #accepted #been #britain #century

Really, the values under which my generation was raised in the '50s were immigrant values even though we weren't immigrants. The greatest thing you could be was a college-educated Negro. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#even #generation #greatest #greatest thing #immigrant

I don't want to live in a bubble, in my craft or in the world...I can't, I would be cheating myself out of my generation and the world we live in. ↗

— Diane Lane

#cheating #craft #generation #i #live

Married people from my generation are like an endangered species! ↗

— Patrice Leconte

#endangered #endangered species #generation #like #married