Our Generation Quotes - Page 7

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

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Mean, Different, Generations

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• I was doing a play out in L.A. 20-some-odd years ago called 'Goose and Tomtom' by David Rabe, and somebody saw it and the next thing I know I'm doing the table read of the film version of 'Glengarry Glen Ross' with Al Pacino and Jack Lemmon - one of the great films of our generation.

  Richard Schiff

  Years, Play, Generations

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• We often hear about stepping outside ourselves, but rarely about stepping outside our generation.

  Criss Jami

  Generations

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.31, Criss Jami

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

  Marc Kielburger

  People, Giving, Generations

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

  Lester R. Brown

  Choices, Generations, Earth

  Lester R. Brown (2013). “Eco-Economy: Building an Economy for the Earth”, p.276, Routledge

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• Not every believer has the missionary gift, but every Christian is called to some kind of involvement in missions. We are called to advance the gospel in some way and to participate in the fulfilling of God's purposes in our generation

  David Shibley

  Christian, Missionary, Generations

  David Shibley (2001). “The Missions Addiction”, p.219, Charisma Media

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• History balances the frustration of 'how far we have to go' with the satisfaction of 'how far we have come.' It teaches us tolerance for the human shortcomings and imperfections which are not uniquely of our generation, but of all time.

  Lewis F. Powell, Jr.

  Frustration, Imperfection, Tolerance

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• 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.

  Claude Brown

  Thinking, Generations, Harlem

  Claude Brown, Nathan McCall (2012). “Manchild in the Promised Land”, p.394, Simon and Schuster

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• It has always seemed to me a pity that the young people of our generation should grow up with such scant knowledge of Greek and Latin literature, its wealth and variety, its freshness and its imperishable quality.

  James Loeb

  Growing Up, Latin, People

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

  Pranab Mukherjee

  Role Models, Personality, Generations

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

  Dan Pallotta

  Change, World, Charity

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• 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.

  Trevor Manuel

  People, This Generation, Pioneers

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• Education is the civil rights issue of our generation.

  Arne Duncan

  Rights, Issues, Generations

  CFR meeting, a conversation with Arne Duncan, www.cfr.org. October 19, 2010.

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• God hath work to do in this world; and to desert it because of its difficulties and entanglements, is to cast off His authority. It is not enough that we be just, that we be righteous, and walk with God in holiness; but we must also serve our generation, as David did before he fell asleep. God hath a work to do; and not to help Him is to oppose Him.

  John Owen

  Justice, Generations, Desert

  John Owen (1990). “The Works of John Owen”

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• This is the duty of our generation as we enter the twenty-first century - solidarity with the weak, the persecuted, the lonely, the sick, and those in despair. It is expressed by the desire to give a noble and humanizing meaning to a community in which all members will define themselves not by their own identity but by that of others.

  Elie Wiesel

  Lonely, Loneliness, Responsibility

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

  Lewis Gannett

  Frost, Generations, Tests

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• If I cannot offer some relief to our world, if I cannot inspire our generation to join me, then I feel I am a complete waste of space. This constant fear of feeling irrelevant in our society has been the catalyst behind all my efforts and passions for as long as I can remember.

  Masiela Lusha

  Passion, Our World, Space

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

  Queen Elizabeth II

  Believe, Generations, I Believe

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• No technological achievements can mitigate the disappointment of modern man, his loneliness, his feeling of inferiority, and his fear of war, revolution and terror. Not only has our generation lost faith in Providence but also in man himself, in his institutions and often in those who are nearest to him.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Disappointment, War, Loneliness

  Isaac Bashevis Singer, Joseph C. Landis (1986). “Aspects of I.B. Singer”

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

  Connor Franta

  Ideas, Perfection, Needs

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• Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But many in the world lack these luxuries. How do you practice without such tryout venues?

  Margaret Atwood

  Teacher, Book, School

  "Margaret Atwood: why Wattpad works" by Margaret Atwood, www.theguardian.com. July 6, 2012.

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• 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.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Eye, Ambition, Men

  Jawaharlal Nehru (1967). “Sept. 1964-May 1949”

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• We are here to witness the creation and to abet it. We are here to notice each thing so each thing gets noticed. Together we notice not only each mountain shadow and each stone on the beach but, especially, we notice the beautiful faces and complex natures of each other. We are here to bring to consciousness the beauty and power that are around us and to praise the people who are here with us. We witness our generation and our times. We watch the weather. Otherwise, creation would be playing to an empty house.

  Annie Dillard

  Beautiful, Beach, Weather

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• 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.

  John F. Kennedy

  Nature, Time, Hands

  Kennedy, John F. (1962). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1961”, p.148, Best Books on

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• 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

  Depression, Spiritual, War

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

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