Our Generation Quotes

For us, terrorism remains the great evil of our time, and the war against this evil, our generation’s great cause … There is no middle way for Americans: it is victory or holocaust.

Daniel Johnston is the purist and most unpretentious artist of our generation

Their manners are more gentle, kind, than of Our human generation you shall find.

It seems to me that the conquest of the air is the only major task for our generation.

Serious harm, I am afraid, has been wrought to our generation by fostering the idea that they would live secure in a permanent order of things.

Undefined Christianity is not a problem in our generation. It is defined Christianity that brings the rub.

Justice needs money; it always has . . . whether for abolition of slavery and early women's rights movements or the civil rights and environmental drives of our generation.

The term science means something quite different for our generation than it did not so many generations ago.

Our generation was supposed to be about trying to deal with nuclear concerns and environmental disasters.

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.

Of all the poetry written in our generation, Frost's is most likely to stand the test of time

The President says, "We are in the fight for a way of life. This is the greatest battle of our generation, and of the generations to come."

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

The soil is actually the greatest technology we have for adapting to climate change. And I feel it's our generation's duty to build it back up.

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

To break our addiction to oil is one of the greatest challenges that our generation will have to master.

Everyone in our generation lives in a world where you're surrounded by all sorts of music all the time. People's tastes are made of combinations of genres.

We don't have a prayer of defeating the Red Threat of our generation without a long boom of almost unprecedented duration.

I'm sick and tired of our generation being called the TV generation. What do you expect? We watched Lee Harvey Oswald get his brains blown out all over. How could we change the channel after that?

Our generation had been told that life had seriousness, and we came in (to politics) with purpose. We were serving history.

Sustainable development is not an option! It is the only path that allows all of humanity to share a decent life on this, one planet. Rio+20 gives our generation the opportunity to choose this path.

The invention of film has given our generation the dubious advantage of watching our acting heroes deteriorate before our eyes.

Maybe something new is even being done by people who see our generation as an enemy. That can create energy as well.

Most of my friends between 21 and 31 are at different stages of figuring out what the hell they are going to do with their lives. It's a big part of our generation. What is the next step?

[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.

He doesn't translate well into our generation.

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.

The thing is, our generation, we fight every day to get through life.

I believe without any doubt that you are the finest generation this Church has ever had.