Generation quotes

“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

“If the younger generation doesn't get into opera, then, guess what? No more opera! An art form has died. If opera goes away, we're fucked!”
Nat Faxon - Mark

Rock climbing? Why would anybody go climb a rock? Man, things are changing. I remember when men were "men" and women were "gals" and we called coloreds "coloreds"...
Charles Napier - Dick Lewiston

“- Becky Feder: How long ago was the '80s?
- Keithie Feder: That was way back in the 1900s. We learned about it in school. It was wack. The phones had long, curly things coming out of the end. You had to watch commercials.
- Becky Feder: No way.”
Alexys Nycole Sanchez - Becky Feder
Cameron Boyce - Keithie Feder

“That's the problem with your whole generation. You know, y'all, you don't believe in nothin'. But your father, he believed in something. He believed and understood that something as simple as a little haircut could change the way a man felt on the inside.”

Cedric the Entertainer - Eddie

“Abolishing slavery by constitutional provisions settles the fate for all coming time. Not only of the millions now in bondage, but of unborn millions to come.”
Daniel Day-Lewis - Abraham Lincoln

“Before disco, this country was a dancing wasteland. You know the Woodstock generation of the 1960s that were so full of themselves and conceited? None of those people could dance.”
Kate Beckinsale - Charlotte

“I wonder if future generations will ever even hear about us. It's not likely. After enough time, everything passes. I don't care how big we are or how important are our lives.”
Wallace Shawn - Masked Avenger

“Disco will never be over. It will always live in our minds and hearts. Something like this, that was this big, and this important, and this great, will never die. Oh, for a few years - maybe many years - it'll be considered passé and ridiculous. It will be misrepresented and caricatured and sneered at, or - worse - completely ignored. People...” (continue)(continue reading)
Matt Keeslar - Josh

“Men should hold it up in front of them every single day of their lives and say: I'm free to think and to speak. My ancestors couldn't, I can, and my children will.”

James Stewart - Jefferson Smith

“The man and woman who were born here gave birth to this generation. They were slaves. They worked this ground, but they bought it from the widow of the slave owner and that's the kind of blood we have running - though - our veins.”
Cicely Tyson - Myrtle

“You were never my age, none of ya! And the sooner you creeps get hip to that, the sooner you'll dig us!”

Tony Mordente - Action

“Disco was too great, and too much fun, to be gone forever! It's got to come back someday. I just hope it will be in our own lifetimes.”
Matt Keeslar - Josh

“There's been a change, some shift in values. When you no longer understand your people, mummy, maybe it is time to hand it over to the next generation.”

Helen Mirren - The Queen

“Pass the parcel. That's sometimes all you can do. Take it, feel it and pass it on. Not for me, not for you, but for someone, somewhere, one day. Pass it on, boys. That's the game I want you to learn. Pass it on.”
Richard Griffiths - Hector

“That's the problem with the younger generation: no sentiment.”
Steven Hill - Max Sherman

Yuppie stands for "young upwardly mobile professional". Nightclub flunkie is not a professional category. I wish we were yuppies. Young, upwardly mobile, professional. Those are good things, not bad things.
Chris Eigeman - Des

“Why do we have to be a generation? Why do we need to be labelled? We don't have anything in our generation. 50 years ago there was Ghandi and Churchill. Now all we have is David Beckham and Britney Spears.”
Mikael Colville-Andersen - Oliver Mauro

“They say talent skips a generation.”

Clifton Powell - Fred Smith

“We are fucked. Take a look at the world we inherited. We're a bunch of fast-food munching MTV freaks humping the great Amercian Dream. The generation before us sold their innocence for 200 digitally enhanced satellite stations, and it's been downhill ever since. They had Mickey Mouse, Easy Rider and The Beatles. Alright? We got South Park, The...” (continue)(continue reading)
Brendan Fehr - Nick

“We act like we have all the answers and we're totally invincible, like our parents seem and their parents before them, and I'm sorry, that I have to be the one to say this, but it's fucking bullshit.”

Christopher Grace - Seth Abrahms

“- Grandad James Shannon: As my last surviving descendant, you have a sacred duty to pass on my genetic material.
- Jimmie Shannon: That's a lovely sentiment.”
Peter Alexander Ustinov - Grandad James Shannon
Chris O'Donnell - Jimmie Shannon