Generation quotes

“You can wipe out an entire generation, you can burn their homes to the ground and somehow they'll still find their way back. But if you destroy their history, you destroy their achievements and it's as if they never existed. That's what Hitler wants and that's exactly what we are fighting for.”
George Clooney - Frank Stokes

“There is something about this generation living now, that we don't accept death.”
Elena Anaya

“Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need. We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War's a spiritual war... our Great Depression is our lives.”
Brad Pitt - Tyler Durden

“I'm really excited about this generation of young women that can look at a screen and see some brown people in space.”
Tessa Thompson

“I belong to an unlucky generation, astride between two worlds and ill-at-ease in both. And what is more, I am completely without illusions. Now, what would the Senate do with me, an inexperienced legislator who lacks the faculty for self-deception, an essential requisite for wanting to guide others. No, I cannot lift a finger in politics. It...” (continue)(continue reading)
Burt Lancaster - Prince Don Fabrizio Salina

“What are we going to do about the other generation? How will we ever communicate without communication?”
Benson Fong - Wang Chi-Yang

“Every generation is obsessed with the decade before they were born.”
Fiona Shaw

“- Francesco: We mustn't be afraid now or in the future, because we're on the just path. Understand, Pina?
- Pina: Yes, Francesco.
- Francesco: We're fighting for something that has to be, that can't help coming. The road may be long and hard, but we'll get there and we'll see a better world. And our children especially will see it.”
Francesco Grandjacquet - Francesco
Anna Magnani - Pina

“You have no balls! And your fathers had no balls. You were all a product of generations of ball-less men who were either too weak or too frightened to stand up and take what's theirs. And one day you will pass on your empty shriveled sacks to your own pitiful offspring!”
Kevin Spacey - Dave Harken

“How, in one generation, have men gone from guys like jack Nicholson and Harrison Ford to... take Ben, here. A dying breed. You know? Look and learn, boys. Because if you ask me, this is what cool is.”
Anne Hathaway - Jules

“We're a generation of men raised by women. I'm wondering if another woman is really the answer we need.”
Brad Pitt - Tyler Durden

“I think rock'nroll is great for this generation. I think it gives a happy feeling to music. We don't dress like they did back in the 40s. Well, this is the same thing.”
Frankie Avalon

“I seem to be stuck in the '60s, and my favorite music, cars, and women's fashion come from that era. And the sense of social rebellion. It was a good time for a lot of things.”
Amber Heard

“The people of the future will say 'meat-eaters' in disgust and regard us in the same way that we regard cannibals and cannibalism.”
William Dennis Weaver

“My hope for the planet is my children and grandchildren.”
Joanne Woodward

“You know what? I'm gonna go ahead, and I'm gonna tell you the real reason I'm having my lunch with you today. You see, I don't really have any friends, at the moment, and, to be completely honest with you, I'm not interested. At all. My entire generation is a bunch of mouth breathers. They literally have a seizure if you take their phone away...” (continue)(continue reading)
Hailee Steinfeld - Nadine

“- Navarre: Each generation is called upon to follow its own quest.
- Gaston: And what is your quest?
- Navarre: I must kill a man.”
Rutger Hauer - Navarre
Matthew Broderick - Gaston

“There's a lazy Sunday softness to your generation. Makes me uncomfortable.”

Gerald McRaney - Owens

“What I do know, is that if we do not act soon, it is our children and our grandchildren who will have to pay the price.”

Dennis Quaid - Jack Hall

We were always told we could be anything, do anything. And I think guys got, maybe not left behind, but not quite as nurtured, you know? I mean, like, we were the generation of "you go, girl."We had Oprah. And I wonder sometimes how guys fit in, you know? They still seem to be trying to figure it out. They're still dressing like little boys.... (continue)(continue reading)
Anne Hathaway - Jules

“Every generation has to be given their chance to destroy the world.”
Vin Diesel - Kaulder

“Exceptional children are often the product of unremarkable parents.”
Sir Ian McKellen - Sherlock Holmes

“Every ten years there is a new generation of actors.”
Barbet Schroeder

“I'm not saying I'm responsible for this country's longest run of uninterrupted peace in 35 years! It's not about me. It's not about you, either. It's about legacy, the legacy left behind for future generations. It's not about us!”
Robert Downey Jr. - Tony Stark

“The '80s? That was 70 years ago.”
Frank Gingerich - Bean Lamonsoff