M Quotes
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“My generation is now the door to memory. That is why I am remembering.”
“My generation is one of the first generations of "choiceful" women - women who have actually had the choice of how they architect their lives - and I don't think shame should have any place in that. But as that generation, you get cuts and bruises.”
“My generation is the first in my species to have put fitness next to godliness on the scale of things. Keeping in shape has become the imperative of our middle age. The heaviest burden of guilt we carry into our forties is flab. Our sense of failure is measured by the grade on a stress test.”
Source: Making Sense
“My generation is under-entertained.”
“My generation knew pretty well what happened 50 years before our birth. Now I follow all the quiz programs because they are a paramount example of the span of memory of the young generation - they are able to remember everything that happened in their life but not before.”
“My generation must have despair. - Leonard Bernstein Ch 40/Dog Water Free, A Memoir”
“My generation never experienced (fortunately) that type of collective tragedy, where everybody goes totally crazy and turns the world into a gigantic nightmare.”
“My generation of bossy, confident, baby-boom women were something brand new in history. Our energy and assertiveness weren't created by Betty Friedan, unknown before her 1963 book, or by Gloria Steinem, whose political activism, as even the Lifetime profile admitted, did not begin until 1969.”
“My generation of director has no illusions that we are going to be fed and cared for by subsidized theater in America.”
“My generation of radicals and breakers-down never found anything to take the place of the old virtues of work and courage and the old graces of courtesy and politeness.”
Source: The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works
“My generation of the Sixties, with all our great ideals, destroyed liberalism, because of our excesses.”
“My generation of writers has been prone to premature illness and death, especially the women. When Black male writers meet it's like a session of the American Diabetic Association.”
“My generation of young female writers discovered that we could dictate the form and content of our own fiction.”
“My generation remembered going to the movies as an event. We would see these things, we would bring them home, and we would think about them for years because it would take a long time before they would go on television where you could re-experience the fun that you had when you watched them.”
“My generation those who were students in the late 60s was always, in the words of the Who, talking about our generation. That's what we thought of ourselves, as the most important thing since sliced bread. And the "we" that we meant was really the Western Europeans and American generation. And as I think back I suppose I have a sense of guilt on behalf of my generation, a sense that we were terribly provincial and didn't understand the really important stuff that was going on in Eastern Europe.”
“My generation was going to change the direction America took. I was completely convinced that we would have a very different kind of society as a result of the protests that I was part of, and I think that's partially true. We obviously never really got to what many of my generation believed was possible, but the amount of change I've seen in my lifetime, both social change and political change, is staggering. I think my generation can take a little bit of credit for that by just opening up the conversation.”
“My generation was not only maligned in book reviews and attacked in graduate school but we lived to see our adored and adorable daughters wonder why feminism had become a dirty word.”
“My generation was secretive, brooding, ambitious, show-offy, and this generation is congenial. Totally. I imagine them walking around with GPS chips that notify them when a friend is in the vicinity, and their GPSes guide them to each other in clipped electronic lady voices and they sit down side by side in a coffee shop and text-message each other while checking their e-mail and hopping and skipping around Facebook to see who has posted pictures of their weekend.”
“My generation was somewhat between things, neither free nor much supported by whatever held us in.”
Source: The Turtle Diary
“My generation was, in effect, the product of a social experiment. If we did not understand marital intimacy, it was because we had not seen it modelled. We lurched from relationship to relationship, dazzled by the newness of meaninglessness, relentless in our search for something even the most perceptive of us could not identify.”
“My generation, we're like animals born in captivity: we accept the state of things because it's pretty much all we've ever known. Sailor was old enough to have experienced a better world. And that knowledge was a sadness she could never shake.”
Source: The Island of Last Things
“My generation will actually be the first generation that is tamer than the one that came before it, and it will probably be poorer; less fun and less money.”
“My generation will actually be the first generation that is tamer than the one that came before it, and it will probably be poorer; less fun and less money. It's ridiculous. In my parents' generation, rebellion was pop culture. It's not anymore.”
“My generation's apathy. I'm disgusted with it. I'm disgusted with my own apathy too, for being spineless and not always standing up against racism, sexism and all those other -isms the counterculture has been whining about for years.”
“My generation's parents told their children, "Become an accountant, a lawyer, or an engineer; that will give you a solid foothold in the middle class." But these jobs are now being sent overseas. So in order to make it today, you have to do work that's hard to outsource, hard to automate.”
“My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our Cabernet stage.”
Source: Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness
“My generation, we're more accepting of narcissism. But we're looking at images that are dead, that are on your phone. My friends have apps to make you look skinny, to make your skin look perfect. And we look at these images and we're like, "That's beauty. That's perfect." But when you see a real person, you're like, "Wait, that's not perfect."”
“My genes done gone and tricked my brain
By making fucking feel so great
That's how the little creeps attain
Their plan to fuckin' replicate
But brain's got tricks itself, you see
To get the bang but not the bite
I got this here vasectomy
My genes can fuck themselves tonight.
- The R-Selectors, Trunclade”
Source: Blindsight
“My genes might die with me, not my dream - one day, not long now, whole world will be kin.”
Source: Little Planet on The Prairie: Dunya Benim, Sorumluluk Benim
“My genes tie me to those that despised me.”
“My genes, my love, are rubber bands and rope; make yourself a structure you can live inside. Amen." — Aimee Bender (Willful Creatures: Stories)”
“My genetics are good, but they aren't crazy He-Man style.”
“My genetics have been in my family for generations.”
Source: The Stork Ate My Brother...And Other Totally Believable Stories
“My genius from a boy
Has fluttered like a bird within my heart;
But could not thus confined her power employ,
Impatient to depart.”
Source: The Black Bard of North Carolina: George Moses Horton and His Poetry
“My genius is crumbling. I’m not complaining; it’s just that it hurts”
Source: Le pays où tout est permis / The Country Where Everything Is Permitted
“My genius is in my nostrils.”
Source: On the Genealogy of Morals and Ecce Homo
“My genius is not so frail a thing that it cowers from the dirty fingers of newspapernen.”
Source: The Thirteenth Tale
“My genre-hopping has caused problems with marketing and sales departments over the years, because they need to know where to position a book with the booksellers.”
“My gentleness was claimed in the most devastatingly brutal of ways.
I am equally fierce in its protection.
You’d be well served not to forget that.”
“My Geordie is probably just about as bad as my English.”
“My German heritage, it's through food. Growing up in Switzerland, the thing that I remember the most is the food. And so the way that I experience people and places is through that - through its food and cuisine.”
“My Get Up and Go Has Not Got Up and Went!”
“My ghost is the only soul who ever comes to cry on my grave... Only the skies cried sincerely on my funeral.”
Source: Nightmarish Sacrifice
“My giant goes with me wherever I go.”
Source: Essays and Lectures
“My giddy soul is all perfumed
Of your flesh and white roses.”
Source: The Muse of the Violets: Poems
“My gift and my curse is that I really want to be loved. What drives me to make music is love - whether it's shallow or deep or whatever. I want to do things that make people love me.”
“My gift, if I would describe, is a double-edged sword. The good thing? I see through people and pierce their souls all the time. I can’t count how many times I listen to lies when I know the truth and intentions. I detect inauthenticity easy no matter how perfect a façade is. Genuine people love me because I protect them, fake people hate me because I crush them. The bad thing? Because it is my belief that everyone can grow into something beautiful, when I was young my sincerity and willingness to understand were taken the cost of neglecting people that genuinely love me and that breaks my heart more than anything. Now that I am older best I can do is to let go and leave people to where they are. At least I can tell myself that I tried.”
“My gift is execution; when I decide I'm going to do something, I'll stop at nothing to do it. Along the way, you take a lot of risks and go for it, but you have to believe in it. You gotta believe in your idea, and lucky for me, I found a lot of success in that.”
“My gift is my song”
Source: Moulin Rouge!
“My gift is that I'm not beautiful. My career was never about looks. It's about health and being in good shape.”