#my generation

I was raised in a time where children were still seen and not heard basically, so I think a lot of us in my generation went the other way and just tried to be as much more liberal and open and we're still paying for it. ↗

— Blythe Danner

#children #generation #heard #i #i think

My father's generation gave to my generation a land of wealth and purpose and world economic dominance. ↗

— Paul Tsongas

#economic #father #gave #generation #land

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

I was the Marlon Brando of my generation. ↗

— Bette Davis

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

My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our Cabernet stage. ↗

— Peggy Noonan

#between #choice #chose #despair #existential

It's hard for a Jew of my generation, an American Jew, who is philo-Zionistic, not to romanticize Israel. ↗

— David Mamet

#generation #hard #israel #jew #my generation

I never got away from the war. Not because I was obsessed with it in those years, but because it was the event of my generation and I started out covering it so I stayed with it. ↗

— Neil Sheehan

#because #covering #event #generation #got

I, like many members of my generation, was concerned with segregation and the repeated violation of civil rights. ↗

— Joseph Stiglitz

#civil rights #concerned #generation #i #like