Our Generation Quotes - Page 5

• 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.

  Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa

  Dream, Children, Generations

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I think Paris Hilton is really our generation's Marilyn Monroe. She's the image of the youth today. There's a real fascination with Paris, ranging on the obsessive. I'm repulsed by her, but because of her notoriety, she has access to an audience.

  Matt Tong

  Real, Thinking, Paris

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• People complain that our generation has no philosophers. They are wrong. They now sit in another faculty. Their names are Max Planck and Albert Einstein. Upon appointment as the first president of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society, Berlin, formed for the advancement of science.

  Adolf von Harnack

  Names, People, President

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• Our generation, and that of our children, will face its share of crises, just like every generation in the past. When those calls come, will you be ready? The answer depends on how we educate the next generation.

  Oliver DeMille

  Children, Past, Generations

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• Our generation will not have regretted both perverse crimes, and the eerie silence of the kind

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Eerie, Silence, Generations

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• The interesting thing about the Beatles was: The music was one thing, but we kind of symbolized a certain kind of freedom at a time when people of our generation were just growing up and just becoming adults.

  Paul McCartney

  Growing Up, People, Interesting

  Source: www.today.com

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• I tell this joke about Barack Obama is the best communicator of our generation: The guy reads a teleprompter better than any Hollywood actor. John McCain, his opponent - Stevie Wonder reads a teleprompter better than John McCain.

  Frank Luntz

  Guy, Hollywood, Generations

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• Doubtless, we are as slow to conceive of Paradise as of Heaven, of a perfect natural as of a perfect spiritual world. We see how past ages have loitered and erred. "Is perhaps our generation free from irrationality and error? Have we perhaps reached now the summit of human wisdom, and need no more to look out for mental or physical improvement?" Undoubtedly, we are never so visionary as to be prepared for what the next hour may bring forth.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Spiritual, Past, Errors

  Henry David Thoreau (2002). “The Essays of Henry D. Thoreau: Selected and Edited by Lewis Hyde”, p.122, North Point Press

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• One thing is funny because my grandparents are going to come see the show and my mom was concerned that they wouldn't understand, because so much of it is Internet-based. Our generation specifically really relates to it, because we were the first people to discover the Internet and most of us can maybe navigate the Internet better than our parents can. All this information you could ever possibly know is right at our fingertips, not to mention the fact you can meet anyone!

  Sarah Steele

  Mom, Grandparent, People

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• One of the greatest failures of our generation is not living out the biblical precepts which we so clearly articulate.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Biblical, Generations

  Twitter post from Apr 18, 2015

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• Women in our generation, we were taught we can be and do anything as long as we work hard. But you can't work hard enough for two people.

  Stephanie Klein

  Hard Work, Two, Long

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• When the people of a nation stop communicating, they lose the common purpose that made them great. Their cities become ghost towns. People live aimlessly because they have no cause for which they are willing to die. The cry of the populace is 'Just leave me alone'. Perhaps the ultimate hell is that the wish will be granted. It is not unlikely that our own nation will collapse not through an explosive roar, but through a deafening silence. This silence must be broken in our generation. We may never get another chance.

  Jeff Myers

  Cities, Common Purpose, People

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• The combination of the growth of these digital technologies, the ability of the government to conjure up these secret interpretations, plus a very unusual and novel court make for this ever-expanding surveillance state. We so treasure our freedoms; we will regret it if our generation doesn't use this unique time to reform the surveillance laws and make it clear that security and liberty are not mutually exclusive. We can do both.

  Ron Wyden

  Regret, Unique, Technology

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I find it amusing that those who helped to authorize and engineer the biggest foreign policy disaster in our generation are now criticizing me for making sure that we are on the right battlefield and not the wrong battlefield in the war against terrorism.

  Barack Obama

  War, Generations, Terrorism

  "Democrats Debate in the Windy City". www.npr.org. August 8, 2007.

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• There is a lot of sixties-bashing going on these days that I don't agree with at all. I feel that extremely important ideals were brought to the forefront of the collective consciousness at that time. Granted, drug use was so pervasive that our generation did not as a group have the capacity to manifest our ideals to any great extent. But many of the people who were young in the sixties and who were most touched by that collective ethos are still touched.

  Marianne Williamson

  Drug Use, Ethos, People

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• I love "Phenomenal Woman." The experiences she had of being African American in the U.S. - that itself is a task. I appreciate the hardships Maya Angelou went through for our generation. I'm super influenced by the black people that paved the way for us.

  Serena Williams

  People, Appreciate, African American

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• 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.

  Paul Cain

  Expression, Understanding, Generations

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• [T]he presence of feminism in our lives is taken for granted. For our generation, feminism is like fluoride. We scarcely notice we have it - it's simply in the water.

  Amy Richards

  Taken, Water, Feminism

  Jennifer Baumgardner, Amy Richards (2010). “Manifesta [10th Anniversary Edition]: Young Women, Feminism, and the Future”, p.17, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• I think Eddie Izzard is one of the brightest minds of our generation. I don't see him as a comedian as much as I see him as a philosopher. I hope I get to work with him on everything until I die, because I think he has a great mind and is a very talented actor.

  Bryan Fuller

  Thinking, Comedian, Mind

  "Bryan Fuller walks us through Hannibal's debut season (2 of 4)". Interview with Todd VanDerWerff, tv.avclub.com. July 24, 2013.

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• The most imminent battle our generation is going to have to fight is food transparency: how food is made/grown, where it comes from, the quality of the source, and how it will effect our health long term.

  Daphne Oz

  Fighting, Long, Battle

  Interview with Rachel P. Goldstein, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• No mathematician of equal stature has risen from our generation... Hilbert was singularly free from national and racial prejudices; in all public questions, be they political, social or spiritual, he stood forever on the side of freedom.

  Hermann Weyl

  Spiritual, Forever, Political

  Hermann Weyl (2013). “Levels of Infinity: Selected Writings on Mathematics and Philosophy”, p.93, Courier Corporation

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• It is our generation's task, then, to reignite the true engine of America's economic growth - a rising, thriving middle class.

  Barack Obama

  Class, America, Growth

  Fourth Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 12 February 2013, Washington, D.C.

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• Each and every time, a new generation has risen up and done what’s needed to be done. Today we are called once more — and it is time for our generation to answer that call. For that is our unyielding faith — that in the face of impossible odds, people who love their country can change it.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Odds, People

  Official Announcement of Candidacy for US President, Delivered 10 February 2007, Springfield, Illinois

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• Our generation, like the one before us, must choose. Without the threat of the Cold War, without the pain of economic ruin, without the fresh memory of World War II's slaughter, it is tempting to pursue our private agendas -- to simply sit back and let history unfold. We must resist the temptation.

  William J. Clinton

  Pain, Memories, War

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• Now, the vicissitudes that afflict the individual have their source in society. It is this situation that has given currency to the phrase social forces. Personal relations have given way to impersonal ones. The Great Society has arrived and the task of our generation is to bring it under control. The study of how it is to be done is the function of politics.

  Aneurin Bevan

  Tasks, Generations, Phrases

  David A. Reisman, Aneurin Bevan (1996). “In Place of Fear”, Pickering & Chatto Publishers

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