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I'm very aware we are the first generation ever to have such incredible opportunities to express ourselves publicly to a worldwide audience. — Sara Sheridan

The greatest generation was formed first by the Great Depression. They shared everything - meals, jobs, clothing. — Tom Brokaw

This is the generation whose first cry of life was the Hungarian uprising. — Joseph Brodsky

When I was a kid and putting out my first records, there was a lot made out of the fact that the '50s/'60s generation was so dominant. — Beck

I'm a first-generation American, so I had friends from several cultures while growing up, including Indian and Iranian friends. — Michael Steger

Legends are born to every generation. — Michael Jay

We're the first generation that doesn't need to be afraid of the media. We will become the media — Christy Haubegger

Brothers and sisters no genuine change can ever take place in a generation or epoch without first slaying the dragon of religion. — Sunday Adelaja

I think we're the first generation to successfully integrate American society. — Ted Rall

I'm a first-generation Canadian. — Melanie Fiona

My generation of Americans was the first to really care about racism and sexism, not to mention the I Ching, plus, of course, the Earth. — P. J. O'Rourke

I want to be this generation's Sherlock Holmes. That is, the man to solve first world problems. — J.R. Rim

The first novel that I wrote was because I was having very interesting sorts of experiences, for Indians of my generation. — Karan Bajaj

We are the first generation of human beings to have substantial insights into the origin of our cosmos and of human life in it. — Arthur Peacocke

A lot of schools benefit from parents who are first- or second-generation immigrants, who expect the best for their children. — Michael Gove

O, Youth: Do you know that yours is not the first generation to yearn for a life full of beauty and freedom? — Albert Einstein

My father was an immigrant from Russia and my mother was first generation. — Arthur Rock

I think my parents were immigrants, you know, so I guess I would be first generation. Growing up in California. — Phillip Lim

You know, I'm part of that first MTV generation. — Alexandra Patsavas

My mother is Greek and my father is Bulgarian. I am a first-generation American and native Los Angeleno. I was born and raised in Hollywood. — Rita Wilson

Both my parents are first-generation success stories. — Solange Knowles

My first generation of young readers now have not only children, but some of them have grandchildren to whom they're introducing their old passion. — Diane Duane

Only very rarely are foreigners or first-generation immigrants allowed to be nice people in American films. Those with an accent are bad guys. — Max Von Sydow

It seems to be typical of life in America ... that the second generation has no time to talk to the first. — James A. Baldwin

My mother came from a generation that did not want nannies. She had her first child at 24 and her last - me - at 42. — Janine Di Giovanni

The 2012 London Olympic Games fostered a generation of hope. I witnessed women participating for the very first time, representing every nation. — Jackie Joyner-Kersee

The firsthand and the inter-generational experience, is the key, without it there is no memory once that first generation is gone. — Suzanna Eibuszyc

My parents were both first-generation Irish Catholics raised in Brooklyn. — Alice McDermott

Today's children are the first generation to grow up in a world that has the power to destroy itself. — Margaret Mead

I'm first generation in the country - my family's Mexican. — Manny Montana

I began to understand the challenges that first-generation college students and students of color have in college. — Freeman A. Hrabowski III

I have a theory that self-made, first-generation actresses don't feel entitled to success. — Natasha Lyonne

Millennials were the first generation to grow up with game controllers. They are not spectators. They are participants. — Ron Davison

Through first-class education, a generation marches down the long uncertain road of the future with confidence. — Wynton Marsalis

The first generation of CDs sounded terrible. Any chance to remaster would make the music sound better than what was already out there. — Lou Reed

In this age of ours it's hard to say with certainty that having lived was better than not having been born in the first place. — Kenzaburo Oe

We're the first generation to feel the impact of climate change and the last generation that can do something about it.' — Jay Inslee

When the Walkman was the craze in my generation, I was one of the first to have it. — Benigno Aquino III

Ours is the first generation that has grown up with science-fiction ideas. — Carl Sagan

I'm Korean-American. Not Colombian. My parents are first-generation, and I'm like ... in-between, because I moved over here when I was four or five. — Steven Yeun

You only get married the first time once. There was the philosophy of a generation wrapped up in a tidy little sentence — Carrie Vaughn

First it was "The Silent Generation", then "Generation Boomers", then "Generation X", then "Generation Y" and as last "Generation Z". — Deyth Banger

What one generation finds ridiculous, the next accepts; and the third shudders when it looks back on what the first did. — Peter Singer

I got into politics a little bit by chance, as a person from the first generation of the Solidarity movement. — Donald Tusk

Our kids are the first generation in the history of America that has a shorter life span than their parents. — Jen Hatmaker

Returning to nature has been a dream present in the minds of every generation since mankind first left nature. — Daniel J. Rice

I want to be the first guy from my generation who doesn't just represent one record but the promise of a lot of them. — John Mayer

Jobs planned the iPod to be the first of a new generation of portable post-PC devices, but that secret was invisible to most people. — Peter Thiel

We were the first latchkey-kid generation. Our parents believed in free love, and for many of us, that meant broken homes. — Gudjon Bergmann

The '60s was one of the first times the power of music was used by a generation to bind them together. — Neil Young

F. Scott Fitzgerald is the first of the last generation. — Gertrude Stein

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A creator is not in advance of his generation but he is the first of his contemporaries to be conscious of what is happening to his generation. — Gertrude Stein

When I was publishing my first books, the previous generation of authors was fading away, so I was welcomed because I was a new author. — Orhan Pamuk

With artists of my own generation there was at first no group identity - and never a clique. — Kenneth Noland

My big advantage was to have my father accept me as first-generation. — Mukesh Ambani

This might be the first generation where kids are dying at a younger age than their parents and it's related primarily to the obesity problem. — Judy Davis

To train and educate the rising generation will at all times be the first object of society, to which every other will be subordinate. — Robert Owen

Let us become the first generation to decide to be the last that sees empty classrooms, lost childhoods and wasted potential — Malala Yousafzai