This Generation Quotes - Page 7

• I think now we have a very unique opportunity, thanks to the election result, thanks to such a big vote for the Greens, to say you know what, we have to face it. Otherwise this generation will be robbing the next generation of their future, and that's immoral and unethical.

  Tim Costello

  Unique, Opportunity, Thinking

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• I believe that in this generation those with the courage to enter the conflict will find themselves with companions in every corner of the world.

  Robert Kennedy

  Believe, World, Generations

  Robert F. Kennedy (1967). “To seek a newer world”, Doubleday Books

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• Whatever comes next for this generation, that's going to be the greatest voice.

  Clancy Brown

  Voice, Generations, Next

  "Clancy Brown Returns to Lex Luthor in 'Superman/Batman: Public Enemies'". Interview, www.cbr.com. September 2, 2009.

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• Great expectations are placed on this generation for the establishment of peaceful and neighborly relations in the North Caucasus.

  Yunus-bek Yevkurov

  Expectations, Peaceful, Generations

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• Mr Speaker, Mr Vice President, members of Congress, distinguished guests, and fellow Americans, last month I went to Andrews Air Force Base and welcomed home some of our last troops to serve in Iraq. Together, we offered a final, proud salute to the colors under which more than a million of our fellow citizens fought, and several thousand gave their lives. We gather tonight knowing that this generation of heroes has made the United States safer and more respected around the world.

  Barack Obama

  Hero, Home, Knowing

  Third Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 24 January 2012, Washington, D.C.

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• We in this country, in this generation, are, by destiny rather than choice, the watchmen on the walls of world freedom.

  John F. Kennedy

  Country, Wall, War

  Undelivered Speech to the Dallas Citizens Council, delivered 22 November 1963, Trade Mart, Dallas, Texas

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• Gluten is this Generation's Tobacco

  David Perlmutter

  Generations, Gluten, Tobacco

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• Frigidity is largely nonsense. It is this generation's catchword, one only vaguely understood and constantly misused. Frigid women are few. There is a host of diffident and slow-ripening ones.

  Phyllis McGinley

  Sex, Generations, Host

  Phyllis McGinley (1962). “The province of the heart”

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• It's not good enough to give it tender, loving care, to supply it with breakfast foods, to buy it expensive educations. Those things don't mean anything unless this generation has a future. And we're not sure that it does.

  George Wald

  Mean, Breakfast Food, Giving

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• Perhaps the critics are right: this generation may not produce literature equal to that of any past generation-who cares? The writer will be dead before anyone can judge him-but he must go on writing, reflecting disorder, defeat, despair, should that be all he sees at the moment, but ever searching for the elusive love, joy, and hope-qualities which, as in the act of life itself, are best when they have to be struggled for, and are not commonly come by with much ease, either by a critic's formula or by a critic's yearning.

  William Styron

  Writing, Past, Judging

  William Styron (2015). “My Generation: Collected Nonfiction”, p.417, Random House

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• This generation may be the one that will face Armageddon.

  Ronald Reagan

  Generations, May, Faces

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• The other day, someone called me this generation's Bruce Dern - I'd never thought of that, and frankly, I don't know enough of Bruce Dern's work to comment on it, though he is an incredible actor.

  Garret Dillahunt

  Generations, Actors, Incredibles

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• I think Serena Williams is the best tennis player of this generation, if not the best ever. It is amazing for her to be playing as well as she is at the age of 31.

  Samantha Stosur

  Player, Thinking, Tennis

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Young people - with their dynamism, their energy and their inherent understanding of our interconnected world - have much to teach us. Increased educational attainment, advances in technology and the spread of information have made this generation the best educated, most connected and most informed in history

  Kofi Annan

  Educational, Technology, People

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• It is not difficult to understand why the great God of heaven has reserved these special spirits for the final work of the kingdom prior to his millennial reign.... This generation will face trials and troubles that will exceed those of their pioneer forebears. Our generation has had periods of some respite from the foe. The future generation will have little or none....This is a chosen generation.... I believe today's [Church youth] will lead the youth of the world through the most trying time in history.

  Vaughn J Featherstone

  Believe, Our Generation, Heaven

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• I believe in my heart that 'Avatar' is going to be the revolutionary sci-fi movie for this generation, in this era.

  Laz Alonso

  Believe, Heart, Generations

  "Laz Alonso talks James Cameron's AVATAR - Could it be the first of a Trilogy?". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. April 5, 2009.

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• The only generation that can reach this generation is our generation.

  Oswald J. Smith

  Our Generation, Generations

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• Ndamukong Suh is the best player in this generation to hit free agency since Reggie White.

  Mark Dominik

  Player, Agency, White

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• Those who came before us made certain that this country rode the first waves of the industrial revolution, the first waves of modern invention and the first wave of nuclear power. And this generation does not intend to founder in the backwash of the coming age of space. We mean to be part of it-we mean to lead it.

  John F. Kennedy

  Country, Mean, Space

  Address at Rice University on the Nation's Space Program, delivered 12 September 1962, Rice Stadium, Houston, Texas

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• Your existence is evidence that this generation needs something that your life contains

  Myles Munroe

  Needs, Generations, Existence

  Myles Munroe (2011). “Unleash Your Purpose”, p.18, Destiny Image Publishers

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• We must not allow this generation to produce record numbers for the juvenile justice, runaway and homeless youth, or foster care systems.

  Ruben Hinojosa

  Numbers, Justice, Generations

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• I want to see the glory of God invade this generation.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Generations, Want, Glory

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• This generation may either be the last to exist in any semblance of a civilised world or that it will be the first to have the vision, the bearing and the greatness to say, 'I will have nothing to do with this destruction of life, I will play no part in this devastation of the land, I am determined to live and work for peaceful construction for I am morally responsible for the world of today and the generations of tomorrow.'

  Richard St. Barbe Baker

  Life, Greatness, Land

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• If we hold true to our ideals and our commitment to freedom, this generation of servicemen and women will have extended liberty to the Iraqi people, just as previous generations of Americans have all across the globe.

  Jim Talent

  Commitment, People, Liberty

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• The immediate need for education and practice in using our natural resources of soil, forest, water, wildlife and areas of inspirational beauty to the best advantage of all, for this generation and others to come, is again apparent to every observant citizen.

  Walt Disney

  Practice, Water, Generations

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