Our Generation Quotes

Our Generation Quote of the day

Comfort is the god of our generation, so suffering is seen as a problem to be solved, and not a providence from God.

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.

Our generation has had no Great Depression, no Great War. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.

I believe that there is a great fear in our generation of being labeled as priggish.

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.

Let the future say of our generation that we sent forth mighty currents of hope and that we worked together to heal the world.

Give young people a chance, our generation may just surprise you.

I feel like our generation is just so obsessed with the idea of perfection and we don't need to be.

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.

One way or another, the choice will be made by our generation, but it will affect life on earth for all generations to come

It's not our fault our generation has short attention spans, Dad. We watch an appalling amount of TV.

Our [generation] people have the worst diet of anybody. I'm ready to put a farmer on my payroll. We've got to get back to growing our own food. You are what you eat!

The ambition of the greatest men of our generation has been to wipe every tear from every eye. That may be beyond us, but so long as there are tears and suffering, so long our work will not be over.

Our generation is wonderful generation, full of wonder. It's very hard to find an example of it in all our history. Composed of contradictions — light and darkness mixed.

No member of our generation who wasn't a Communist or a dropout in the thirties is worth a damn.

I'm not a genius. I just worked really, really hard, and I want our generation, our children and our future generations to realize that they can fulfill the same dreams.

Our generation does not want its epitaph to read, 'We kept charity overhead low.' We want it to read that we changed the world.

Have you stopped seeing great things happen in your life? Perhaps you have stopped believing that God can work in a mighty way even in our generation.

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.

In our generation, the role models were Gandhi and Nehru. We revered them. They were venerated personalities. I read almost every speech of Nehru.

The reason music became so powerful to our generation is that it's art you can consume in your car, and we were driving around a lot.

Despite everything that Harlem did to our generation, I think it gave something to a few. It gave them a strength that couldn't be obtained anywhere else.

I am Warhol. I am the No. 1 most impactful artist of our generation. I am Shakespeare in the flesh.

It has been left to our generation to discover that you can move heaven and earth to save five minutes and then not have the faintest idea what to do with them when you have saved them.

I think the hero in our generation is not the individual but the pair, two people who together add up to more than they are apart.

German militarism and Nazism have devastated twice in our generation the lands of German neighbors.

The only generation that can reach this generation is our generation.

It is interesting seeing young people these days and watching how unimportant music is in their lives compared with our generation.

The experience of our generation: that capitalism will not die a natural death.

Those who criticize our generation forget who raised it.

Chick Lit uses humor to reflect life back to us. It's a very comforting genre, and it's the first time our generation has had a voice. It's a very important genre for all of those reasons.

Do not be caught up in materialism, one of the real plagues of our generation-that is, acquiring things, fast-paced living, and securing career success.

This is the moral challenge of our generation. Not only are the eyes of the world upon us. More important, succeeding generations depend on us. We cannot rob our children of their future.

God is raising up a new standard, a new banner if you will, that's going to radically change the expression, the understanding of Christianity in our generation.

Our generation has the ability and the responsibility to make our ever-more connected world a more hopeful, stable and peaceful place.

He had a massive stroke. He died with his tie on. Do you think that could be our generation's equivalent of that old saying about dying with your boots on?

I have learned that the state of Israel cannot be ruled in our generation without deceit and adventurism.

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.

Violence against women is the single greatest human rights violation of our generation.

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.

I am a huge fan of Alan Furst. Furst is the best in the business--the most talented espionage novelist of our generation.

It is our task in our time and in our generation, to hand down undiminished to those who come after us, as was handed down to us by those who went before, the natural wealth and beauty which is ours.

Education is the civil rights issue of our generation.

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.

That is our generation’s task - to make these words, these rights, these values of life and liberty and the pursuit of happiness real for every American.

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.

The challenge of our generation, whether it's young lawyers, young investment bankers, is to make capitalism work for people not just around the corner, but for people all around the world.

Our generation must fulfill the most noble of duties by ensuring the survival of future generations through the most basic of survival mechanisms - adaptation.

Angry Black White Boy is bananas! Actually, it's a banana split with razor blades in it. Adam Mansbach is the white Richard Wright, and Angry Black White Boy is our generation's Native Son.

I think if we are actually going to accept our generation's responsibility, that's going to mean that we give our children no less retirement security than we inherited from our parents.