Quotes by Our Generation Those who criticize our generation forget who raised it. Bill Cosby our-generationgenerationswise It drives me crazy to see so much of this planet's life so casually endangered. The first steps are so easy (drive smaller cars, for instance) that it's very hard to understand why we haven't taken them. But I know that this is the issue our generation will be judged by. Bill McKibben our-generationcrazytaken It is my conviction that your generation is better and stronger than was ours... better in many ways! I have the faith that you young men and young women can meet the world on its own terms and conquer it. Boyd K. Packer our-generationstrongermen I think Eddie Izzard is one of the brightest minds of our generation. I don't see him as a comedian as much as I see him as a philosopher. I hope I get to work with him on everything until I die, because I think he has a great mind and is a very talented actor. Bryan Fuller our-generationcomedianthinking It has been left to our generation to discover that you can move heaven and earth to save five minutes and then not have the faintest idea what to do with them when you have saved them. C. E. M. Joad our-generationideasmoving I was naming the five warriors of our generation who have experience, four out of five I would argue were retired early out of the [Barack] Obama administration because they said things the Obama administration didn't particularly want to hear. Carly Fiorina our-generationwarriorgenerations What our generation failed to learn was the nobility of work. An honest day's labor. The worthiness of the man in the white socks who would pull out a picture of his grandkids from his wallet. For us, the factory would never do. And turning away from our birthright - our grandfather in the white socks - is the thing that ruined us. Charlie LeDuff our-generationwhitemen Going out in Paris was like going out in the '30s dressed like the Andrews Sisters. It was everything I'd seen in books at my grandparents' house, only it was our generation. Christian Lacroix our-generationsisterbook You know, the condom is the glass slipper of our generation. You slip it on when you meet a stranger. You dance all night, then you throw it away. Chuck Palahniuk our-generationglassesnight 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 our-generationgenerationsthinking I feel like our generation is just so obsessed with the idea of perfection and we don't need to be. Connor Franta our-generationperfectionideas We often hear about stepping outside ourselves, but rarely about stepping outside our generation. Criss Jami our-generationgenerations 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 our-generationchangeworld The most imminent battle our generation is going to have to fight is food transparency: how food is made/grown, where it comes from, the quality of the source, and how it will effect our health long term. Daphne Oz our-generationfightinglong 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 our-generationmissionarychristian The current generation of world leaders -- our generation -- is also being called to face significant challenges concerning peace, collective security and the environment. We have been unable to solve old disputes and to prevent new threats. The use of force is incapable of eliminating the underlying causes of conflict. Dilma Rousseff our-generationleaderchallenges He doesn't translate well into our generation. Donald Sutherland agingour-generationgenerations One hundred years ago, visionary political leaders from the Progressive Era established a system of national forests and parks in our country that are the envy of the world and today are the treasure of an entire nation. Why not a similar, global vision for our generation? Eban Goodstein our-generationcountryyears I think the consensus among our generation and people younger than us is that we do have a defining challenge in the moment, so I do like being involved in something bigger than the finger-doodling I do in art. It stimulates your brain in certain ways. Edward Norton our-generationartthinking 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 our-generationpeoplenegative«12345678»
