This Generation Quotes

• We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Integrity, Anger, Character

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.96, Beacon Press

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• This generation is so dead. You ask a kid, 'What are you doing this Saturday?' and they'll be playing video games or watching cable, instead of building model cars or airplanes or doing something creative. Kids today never say, 'Man, I'm really into remote-controlled steamboats.'

  Jack White

  Airplane, Kids, Men

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  The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.

  William James

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• The world knows that America will never start a war. This generation of Americans has had enough of war and hate... we want to build a world of peace where the weak are secure and the strong are just.

  John F. Kennedy

  Peace, Strong, Hate

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• Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction.

  Ronald Reagan

  Veterans Day, Freedom, Our Veterans

  Labor Day Address at Liberty State Park, delivered 1 September 1980, Jersey City, New Jersey

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• Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.

  Robert Kennedy

  Change, Courage, Creativity

  Robert F. Kennedy (1998). “Make Gentle the Life of the World: The Vision of Robert F. Kennedy”, Harcourt

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• This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Destiny, Presidential, Generations

  Speech accepting renomination as president, Philadelphia, Pa., 27 June 1936

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• I will go down as the voice of this generation, of this decade, I will be the loudest voice.

  Kanye West

  Inspirational, Voice, Generations

  "Kanye West's Best Quotes: 'How could you be me and want to be someone else?'" by Jim Merrett, www.esquire.com. December 5, 2015.

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• To boldly go where no one has gone before

  Stephen Hawking

  Courage, Gone, Cider

  Lucy Hawking, Stephen Hawking (2009). “George's Cosmic Treasure Hunt”, p.50, Simon and Schuster

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• Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.

  Lewis Mumford

  Family, Father, Grandmother

  The Brown Decades ch. 1 (1931)

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• Grandchildren are the dots that connect the lines from generation to generation.

  Lois Wyse

  Grandma, Grandmother, Grandchildren

  Lois Wyse (2011). “Funny, You Don't Look Like a Grandmother”, p.39, Harmony

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• Space, the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before.

  Gene Roddenberry

  Men, Years, Civilization

  Star Trek: The Next Generation (television series). This third mission statement was first used in the episode "Encounter at Farpoint" (1987). See Killian 1; Roddenberry 2; Roddenberry 3

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• To some generations much is given. Of other generations, much is expected.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Generations, Rendezvous, Given

  Speech accepting renomination as president, Philadelphia, Pa., 27 June 1936

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• That's why this generation is the least racist generation ever. You see it all the time. Go to any club. People are intermingling, hanging out, having fun, enjoying the same music. Hip-hop is not just in the Bronx anymore. It's worldwide. Everywhere you go, people are listening to hip-hop and partying together. Hip-hop has done that.

  Jay-Z

  Fun, Party, Nightlife

  "Letter to the President" (Video), www.imdb.com. 2005.

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• I do not write for this generation. I am writing for other ages. If this could read me, they would burn my books, the work of my whole life. On the other hand, the generation which interprets these writings will be an educated generation; they will understand me and say: Not all were asleep in the nighttime of our grandparents.

  Jose Rizal

  Book, Writing, Hands

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• Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.

  Ronald Reagan

  Strength, Peace, Children

  Ronald Reagan (1983). “A Time for Choosing: The Speeches of Ronald Reagan, 1961-1982”, Gateway Books

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• Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.

  William James

  Positive, Attitude, Philosophical

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• Each of us can work to change a small portion of events. And it's in the total of all those acts that the history of this generation will be written.

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  Thought Provoking, Events, Generations

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• This generation has lost the true meaning of romance. There are so many songs that disrespect women. You can’t treat the woman you love as a piece of meat. You should treat your love like a princess. Give her love songs, something with real meaning. Maybe I’m old fashioned but to respect the woman you love should be a priority.

  Tom Hiddleston

  Respect, Song, Real

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• Messi is the great player of this generation, like there were great players in other generations.

  Michel Patini

  Player, Messi, Generations

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• I want kids of this generation to see that everything is cool, that there's some kind of unity in hip-hop. We all found something that's really important to us, and music is all we've really got.

  Missy Elliot

  Kids, Hip Hop, Unity

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• We can't negotiate the facts. We can't negotiate the truth about the situation. And for those who are too fearful to finish, it can be done and must be done. Make sure we succeed, . . . It is wrong for this generation to destroy the habitability of our planet and ruin the prospects of every future generation.

  Al Gore

  Generations, Done, Ruins

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• When I look at certain aspects of popular culture - not everything because I like a lot of things - sometimes my heart breaks a little bit, just a little bit. I begin to ponder what happened to this generation, I don't know.

  Saul Williams

  Heart, Generations, Culture

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• We must pay attention to the millions of children of this generation who are caught up in armed conflicts. How can we protect them from the worst consequences of war? And when hostilities cease, how can we take the war out of them? By eliminating landmines, controlling the sale of small arms, raising the age of recruitment ... are all essential measures. By reuniting children with their families and providing programs of physical and psychological rehabilitation.

  Landon Pearson

  Children, War, Age

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• Repentance is powerful spiritual medicine. There are few spiritual ills it will not cure. Each sin we leave behind through our faith in the living Christ-both those of commission and those of omission-opens spiritual doors. As we feel the potency of repentance, we better understand why Christ admonished the early missionaries of this dispensation to "say nothing but repentance unto this generation."

  Neil L. Andersen

  Spiritual, Powerful, Doors

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