Our Generation quotes:

Send

Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives. -- Chuck Palahniuk
Education is the investment our generation makes in the future. -- Mitt Romney
I am Warhol. I am the No. 1 most impactful artist of our generation. I am Shakespeare in the flesh. -- Kanye West
I have come to the conclusion that none of us in our generation feels as guilty about sin as we should or as our forefathers did. -- Francis Schaeffer
Like some kind of particularly tenacious vampire the short story refuses to die, and seems at this point in time to be a wonderful length for our generation. -- Neil Gaiman
We were all on this ship in the sixties, our generation, a ship going to discover the New World. And the Beatles were in the crow's nest of that ship. -- John Lennon
Our generation has an incredible amount of realism, yet at the same time it loves to complain and not really change. Because, if it does change, then it won't have anything to complain about. -- Tori Amos
Education is the civil rights issue of our generation. -- Arne Duncan
Those who criticize our generation forget who raised it. -- Bill Cosby
It is interesting seeing young people these days and watching how unimportant music is in their lives compared with our generation. -- Alison Moyet
Let the future say of our generation that we sent forth mighty currents of hope and that we worked together to heal the world. -- Jeffrey Sachs
The awakening of the people of China to the possibilities under free government is the most significant, if not the most momentous, event of our generation. -- Woodrow Wilson
This generation, our generation of people who benefited, must always be the pioneers who look to younger people and say mediocrity is not accommodated in what we do. -- Trevor Manuel
The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives. -- William James
You know, the condom is the glass slipper of our generation. You slip it on when you meet a stranger. You dance all night, then you throw it away. -- Chuck Palahniuk
You, our youth of today, are among the most illustrious spirits to be born into mortality in any age of the world. Yours is a noble heritage and a wonderful opportunity. -- Harold B. Lee
We don't have a great war in our generation, or a great depression, but we do, we have a great war of the spirit. We have a great revolution against the culture. The great depression is our lives. We have a spiritual depression. -- Chuck Palahniuk
All through the ages prophets have looked down through the corridors of time to our day. Billions of the deceased and those yet to be born have their eyes on us. Make no mistake about it...this is a marked generation. There has never been more expected of the faithful in such a short time than there is of us. -- Ezra Taft Benson
I love the youth of the Church. I have said again and again that I think we have never had a better generation than this. How grateful I am for your integrity, for your ambition to train your minds and your hands to do good work, for your love of the word of the Lord, and for your desire to walk in paths of virtue and truth and goodness. -- Gordon B. Hinckley
Maybe our generation is more about sex, but it feels like romance is dying out. -- Orlando Bloom
German militarism and Nazism have devastated twice in our generation the lands of German neighbors. -- James F. Byrnes
No member of our generation who wasn't a Communist or a dropout in the thirties is worth a damn. -- Lyndon B. Johnson
I have learned that the state of Israel cannot be ruled in our generation without deceit and adventurism. These are historical facts that cannot be altered. -- Moshe Sharett
I had heard so much negative talk about our generation, that we're slackers and young fogies, that I knew wasn't true of the people I know. -- Eric Liu
My daddy expected that my brothers and I and our generation would make the world a better place. He had lived in an America of continual social progress. -- Wynton Marsalis
The greatest revolution in our generation is that of human beings, who by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives. -- Marilyn Ferguson
I think women of our generation went through Cultural Revolution, went through hardship, coming from nowhere, and suddenly see China's amazing opportunity. So women just seized the opportunity. -- Zhang Xin
I've always loved hip-hop, since I was a kid, that's the music that I loved. I think everyone of our generation kind of fantasized about hip-hop in some ways. -- Joaquin Phoenix
Perhaps the fact that we have seen millions voting themselves into complete dependence on a tyrant has made our generation understand that to choose one's government is not necessarily to secure freedom. -- Friedrich August von Hayek
Going out in Paris was like going out in the '30s dressed like the Andrews Sisters. It was everything I'd seen in books at my grandparents' house, only it was our generation. -- Christian Lacroix
I think there is a generation gap. I personally look forward to, as our generation becomes the leaders, you are gonna see a change, and I think hopefully gay marriage will be a part of that country. -- Vanessa Kerry
Food became for me a way of becoming self-sufficient with my hands, to regain manual literacy, which I think has been lost on our generation and certainly younger generations. Very few people can actually make things with their hands and do things with their hands. -- Tim Ferriss
I believe, if done correctly, eliminating Saddam and liberating Iraq could be the 'Normandy Invasion' or 'fall of the Berlin Wall' of our generation... the Iraqi people are eager to be rid of Saddam, and there is equally encouraging evidence that republican principles could thrive there. -- Pete Hegseth
I do think that some of us began to realize that this was going to be a long struggle that was going to go on for decades, and you'd have to knuckle down. A lot of people in our generation did that. They didn't drop out and run away. -- Julian Bond
My daddy thought - no, he expected - that my brothers and I and our generation would make the world a better place. He was correct in his belief because he had lived in an America of continual social progress, depression followed by prosperity, segregation by integration, and so on. -- Wynton Marsalis
I saw the Internet as being something which would allow power mongers to control us, and that we would willingly go to that if it promised us salvation - if it promised to show us who we were and let us find ourselves as we had, uniquely in our generation, through rock music. -- Pete Townshend
Our generation, unfortunately, is stuck to our phones - and, like, Twitter - constantly, which I have no problem with. I'd say we're not describing the children of America or anything like that, but there is something to take from it: It is kind of sad how we can't go thirty minutes without checking our phone. -- Israel Broussard
But you see, our society is still trapped in this binary, black/white logic and that has had some very positive implications for our generation. It's had some very negative ones as well and one of the negative ones is that it creates enormous identity problems for people who have one black ancestor and all white ancestors for example. -- Henry Louis Gates
I'm excited about our rising generation. -- Van Jones
He doesn't translate well into our generation. -- Donald Sutherland
Let us make sure that future generation writes our biography. -- Amit Kalantri
We are Scotland's independence generation. And our time is now -- Alex Salmond
The history of second-generation actors isn't great in our industry, -- Michael Douglas
The only generation that can reach this generation is our generation. -- Oswald J. Smith
Field of Dreams is probably our generation's It's A Wonderful Life. -- Kevin Costner
Give young people a chance, our generation may just surprise you. -- Marc Kielburger
--
Daniel Johnston is the purist and most unpretentious artist of our generation -- Mark Linkous
Violence against women is the single greatest human rights violation of our generation, -- Patrick Stewart
The thing is, our generation, we fight every day to get through life. -- Hayley Williams
This a soft generation. You quit on everything! Our people did not quit! -- Eric Thomas
Their manners are more gentle, kind, than of our generation you shall find. -- William Shakespeare
What our Seventh Generation will have is a consequence of our actions today. -- Winona LaDuke
The experience of our generation: that capitalism will not die a natural death. -- Walter Benjamin
We often hear about stepping outside ourselves, but rarely about stepping outside our generation. -- Criss Jami
A lot of my generation are living out the un-lived lives of our mothers. -- Gloria Steinem
Education is our greatest opportunity to give an irrevocable gift to the next generation. -- Ernie Fletcher
So what are we given? We're also given, my generation, the disillusionment of our parents. -- Jewel
We are the generation of Social Media, Our biggest Revolution is a Tweet of 141 Characters. -- Sandra Chami Kassis
There's Dick Van Dyke and John Ritter, the two greatest physical comics of our generation. -- Suzanne Somers
We have seen the best minds of our generation destroyed by boredom at poetry readings. -- Lawrence Ferlinghetti
We cannot afford to let the ideas of our young generation go untapped or unbacked. -- Sharad Vivek Sagar
--
It is our duty to do all we can to introduce every generation to Christ. -- Henrietta Mears
In this generation, the issue pressing that question on our consciences is the issue of abortion. -- Robert Casey
Our generation will not have regretted both perverse crimes, and the eerie silence of the kind -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
One of the greatest gifts we can give to another generation is our experience, our wisdom. -- Desmond Tutu
Our generation was supposed to be about trying to deal with nuclear concerns and environmental disasters. -- Michael Stipe
My generation of the Sixties, with all our great ideals, destroyed liberalism, because of our excesses. -- Camille Paglia
To death we owe our life; the passing of one generation opens a way for another. -- Christian Nestell Bovee
I believe that there is a great fear in our generation of being labeled as priggish. -- Queen Elizabeth II
If you want to help the poor and our next generation, make investment, reinvestment and businesses welcome. -- Gina Rinehart
With our next generation hardware, polygon rendering will probably be an area we'll get more heavily into. -- Trip Hawkins
As a sculptor sculpts a statue, an educator educates our future generation. Beauty depends on the creator. -- Debasish Mridha
Undefined Christianity is not a problem in our generation. It is defined Christianity that brings the rub. -- Alistair Begg
Each generation faces different issues and challenges, but our standard must always be measured by God's word. -- Billy Graham
As patients and consumers, we are better informed today about our health care than any previous generation. -- Patricia Hewitt
Our mandate is simple: raise up a generation that can openly display the raw power of God -- Bill Johnson
Our grandfathers had to run, run, run. My generation's out of breath. We ain't running no more. -- Stokely Carmichael
It's not our fault our generation has short attention spans, Dad. We watch an appalling amount of TV. -- Yeardley Smith
Every successive generation becomes a living memorial of our public schools, and a living example of their excellence. -- Joseph Story
I have learned that the state of Israel cannot be ruled in our generation without deceit and adventurism. -- Moshe Sharett
Well, I grew up around the magazine and was part of a generation that was embracing our sexuality. -- Christie Hefner
Of all the poetry written in our generation, Frost's is most likely to stand the test of time -- Lewis Gannett
It seems to me that the conquest of the air is the only major task for our generation. -- T. E. Lawrence
The term science means something quite different for our generation than it did not so many generations ago. -- Fulton J. Sheen
I fear the day that technology will surpass our human interaction. The world will have a generation of idiots. -- Albert Einstein
My generation of young female writers discovered that we could dictate the form and content of our own fiction. -- Erica Jong
For with all our pretension to enlightenment, are we not now a talking, desultory, rather than a meditative generation? -- John Campbell Shairp
To break our addiction to oil is one of the greatest challenges that our generation will have to master. -- Barack Obama
The measure of our success will be the condition on which we leave the world for the next generation. -- Robert Redford
--
The purpose of our lives is to add value to the people of this generation and those that follow. -- R. Buckminster Fuller
For a man of my generation, our century has been a long intellectual and political struggle in favor of freedom. -- Octavio Paz
The invention of film has given our generation the dubious advantage of watching our acting heroes deteriorate before our eyes. -- Robert Brustein
I feel like our generation is just so obsessed with the idea of perfection and we don't need to be. -- Connor Franta
One of the greatest failures of our generation is not living out the biblical precepts which we so clearly articulate. -- Ravi Zacharias
From day one our next generation system will run all our exsisting software - so that gives us a head start. -- Trip Hawkins
Our generation had been told that life had seriousness, and we came in (to politics) with purpose. We were serving history. -- Newt Gingrich
Our generation has the ability and the responsibility to make our ever-more connected world a more hopeful, stable and peaceful place. -- Natalie Portman
It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous. -- Charles Dudley Warner
It is our generation's task, then, to reignite the true engine of America's economic growth - a rising, thriving middle class. -- Barack Obama
It's a different era. Our job now is to show leadership and vision and to help the next generation of artists. -- Karen Kain
We don't have a prayer of defeating the Red Threat of our generation without a long boom of almost unprecedented duration. -- Mitch Daniels
Never before in our country's history has a generation been so empowered, so wealthy, so privileged - and yet so empty. -- Ben Shapiro
I get little kids who recognize me from 'Mary Poppins,' and it just delights me because it's our third generation. -- Dick Van Dyke
It seems clear to me also that climate change is a problem which can no longer be left to our future generation. -- Pope Francis
I am a huge fan of Alan Furst. Furst is the best in the business--the most talented espionage novelist of our generation. -- Vince Flynn
Great authors are admirable in this respect: in every generation they make for disagreement. Through them we become aware of our differences. -- Andre Gide
Our fathers had their dreams; we have ours; the generation that follows will have its own. Without dreams and phantoms man cannot exist. -- Olive Schreiner
Rich people, God bless us. We deserve all the opportunities to make sure our country and our blessings continue to the next generation. -- Hillary Clinton
I inspired a new generation in the same way the previous generation inspired me. I believe that our democracy itself is very inspiring. -- Donna Brazile
I can't single out one thing that influenced me. My generation was influenced greatly by the manga that came out during our childhood. -- Takashi Miike
The education that we have so far succeeded in giving to the bulk of our citizens has produced a generation of mental slatterns. -- Dorothy L. Sayers
Comfort is the god of our generation, so suffering is seen as a problem to be solved, and not a providence from God. -- Matt Chandler
The world economy is more stable than for a generation ... Our hugely sophisticated financial markets match funds with ideas better than ever before. -- David Cameron
Of the 6,000 languages spoken on Earth right now, 3,000 aren't spoken by the children. In one generation, we're going to halve our cultural diversity. -- Phil Borges
Our strife pertains to ourselves-to the passing generations of men-and it can without convulsion be hushed forever with the passing of one generation. -- Abraham Lincoln
My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our Cabernet stage. -- Peggy Noonan
In our generation, the role models were Gandhi and Nehru. We revered them. They were venerated personalities. I read almost every speech of Nehru. -- Pranab Mukherjee

Send