"My generation of kids watching the Super Bowl never saw African-American coaches, " he said.
"I never thought I'd see something like this in my generation, " says Sosa, the grad student.
"The abortion debate has become a shouting match for my generation, " says co-director Shane.
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Many believe that adversity makes you stronger, and I believe my generation has great potential.
But my generation grew up during eight years of war with Iraq and then reconstruction.
My generation is the last one to know the world before the WWW temptation.
Indeed, the thought of Britain without Margaret Thatcher seems unimaginable today, especially for people of my generation.
For my generation, whether you loved or loathed her, she was always there, a fact of life.
The change that you will make, how exactly is it going to affect young India, people from my generation?
Despite heavy hype and a pricy promotional campaign, ABC has pulled the plug on My Generation after just two airings.
For my generation, typing something into the search bar is just second nature, and the same goes for young travelers.
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Indeed, Facebook and Twitter kept me abreast, with thousands of status updates from my generation about the latest breaking news.
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My generation of film directors chose to fight to do what we wanted to do, instead of what others told us.
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Some women of my generation of lawyers stayed to become equity partners or shareholders and they reaped great rewards for their endurance.
Margaret Thatcher had been such an influential Prime Minster, much revered by my family and an inspiration to many of my generation.
In my generation, the gender breakdown on campus is nearly 50-50, and I never felt even a little unwelcome as a woman.
But my generation has the gift of being able to value both.
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Twenty years from now, my generation will largely have left the scene.
"I think she represents everything that my generation believes in, " Milano said.
My generation is going to hang around, cluttering up the work landscape.
When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalog, which was one of the bibles of my generation.
The Who, whose hits include My Generation, Substitute and Baba O'Riley, were one of the biggest bands in the world in the early 1970s.
Unfortunately, even if there are equal opportunities between men and women to attend golf outings for business, my generation sees the practice as archaic.
My generation created the Internet, but your generation will define it.
"More women of my generation had stay-at-home moms, " says Connor, 54.
And you may be looking toward the future with that same sense of concern that my generation did when we were sitting where you are now.
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Sooner or later, this is a reality that has to be faced, or many young women in my generation will not be able to run for office.
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"I know that my grandparents think of the whole church a little bit differently than my generation does, " said Kaleigh Forst, a student, in New York City.
"People in my generation who are living on their own salaries don't have such a great standard of living, " says Federica Magro, a 44-year-old publisher in Milan.
"On behalf of my generation, the younger one, I thank you, " British Prime Minister Tony Blair told Australian veteran Gordon Church, 96, who landed on Gold Beach.
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