Our Generation Quotes - Page 4

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

  Hayley Williams

  Fighting, Generations

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• Everything I’ve ever gotten in life is largely due to the fact that I was born in this country, America, at this time with these opportunities for its citizens. It is the primary obligation of our generation to turn over a similar America to our kids.

  Thomas Friedman

  Country, Kids, Opportunity

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• You have a class of young strong men and women, and they want to give their lives to something. Advertising has these people chasing cars and clothes they don't need. Generations have been working in jobs they hate, just so they can buy what they don't really need. 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

  Spiritual, Strong, Jobs

  Chuck Palahniuk (2005). “Fight Club: A Novel”, p.149, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Every generation wants to be the last. Every generation hates the next trend in music they can't understand. We hate to give up those reins of our culture. To find our own music playing in elevators. The ballad for our revolution, turned into background music for a television commercial. To find our generation's clothes and hair suddenly retro.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Giving Up, Hate, Television Commercials

  "Lullaby". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, 2003.

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

  William Shakespeare

  Generations, Kind, Tempest

  "The Complete Works of William Shakespeare".

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• I am in no doubt that if you use the term 'luv' in a letter or text message then you are incapable of truly understanding the emotion. Artists have not pored over heartache and unrequited sentimentality for years so that our generation could decide that four letters is simply one too many to express how we feel.

  Jon Richardson

  Artist, Years, Heartache

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

  Newt Gingrich

  Generations, Purpose, Seriousness

  Source: patch.com

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• 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.

  Helen Keller

  Nature, Animal, Order

  Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

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

  Natalie Portman

  Peace, Responsibility, Helping Others

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• If you turn on the TV, you're going to get a certain palate, and if you go looking underneath the surface, there's a whole lot of stuff there that I think a lot of our generation would be really interested in.

  Ani DiFranco

  Thinking, Would Be, Generations

  "Interview: Righteous Babe Ani DiFranco". Interview by Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. September 8, 1999.

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• It says something about our country that people around the world are willing to leave their homes and leave their families and risk everything to come to America. Their talent and hard work and love of freedom have helped make America the leader of the world. And our generation will ensure that America remains a beacon of liberty and the most hope fill society this world has ever known.

  George W. Bush

  Country, Hard Work, Home

  George W. Bush's speech at a Naturalization Ceremony at the DAR Administration Building in Washington, D.C., georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. March 27, 2006.

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• Some of the most successful, talented actresses of our generation, be it Julianne Moore, or Charlize Theron, or Charlotte Gainsbourg, or Isabella Rossellini, if you know your cinema history, have taken their clothes off. There's nothing wrong with nudity, per se, if it's part of the storytelling and it's eloquent and it says something about the raw humanity of the story.

  Natalie Dormer

  Taken, Successful, Clothes

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I don't know why there's not more activism today. I do think that your generation is twenty times smarter than our generation ever was, but the problem with being smart like you guys is that it can lead you really easily to being cynical, and cynicism is actually a pacifying attitude.

  Bill Ayers

  Attitude, Smart, Thinking

  Source: thepointmag.com

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• I think that's why they're so really - here's the disconnect. It's sort of this odd and I've always had this problem with the rationality of it. That the President [George W.Bush] 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. "And, so what I'm going to do is you know, Iraq has to be won, or our way of life ends, and our children and our children's children all suffer. So, what I'm gonna do is send 10,000 more troops to Baghdad."

  Jon Stewart

  Children, Fighting, Thinking

  "Bill Moyers talks with Jon Stewart". "Bill Moyers Journal", www.pbs.org. April 27, 2007.

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• Maybe our generation is more about sex, but it feels like romance is dying out.

  Orlando Bloom

  Love, Life, Sex

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• 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.

  Carol Moseley Braun

  Inspirational, Retirement, Children

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• Field of Dreams is probably our generation's It's A Wonderful Life.

  Kevin Costner

  Dream, Generations, Fields

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• I think President Obama is the most radical president this nation's ever seen. And in particular, I think he is a true believer in government control of the economy and of our everyday lives. In my judgment, we are facing what I consider to be the epic battle of our generation, quite literally the battle over whether we remain a free market nation.

  Ted Cruz

  Epic, Thinking, Government

  "Ted Cruz: Cuban Ivy League Tea Partier for Senate" by Caroline May, dailycaller.com. June 06, 2011.

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

  Mitch Daniels

  Prayer, Long, Generations

  Keynote Speech to the Conservative Political Action Committee, delivered 11 February 2011, Ronald Reagan Centennial Dinner, Washington, D.C.

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• 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

  White, People, Black

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• 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

  Freedom, Government, Tyrants

  "The Constitution of Liberty". Book by Friedrich Hayek, 1960.

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

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Generations, Quitting, Communist

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• 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?

  Stephen King

  Thinking, Ties, Dying

  Stephen King (2008). “The Stand”, p.361, Anchor

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• 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

  People, Negative, Generations

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• 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

  Brother, America, Daddy

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