Top 55 Our Generation Quotes

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

My daddy thought – no, he expected – that my brothers and I and our generation would make the world a better place. He was correct in his belief because he had lived in an America of continual social progress, depression followed by prosperity, segregation by integration, and so on.

Our generation grew up with technology. It evolved as we grew up. This new generation has had it since they were babies. That’s crazy. It fundamentally changes they way they understand and think about technology. They’ve never known life without it, whereas we knew life without the Internet.

Our generation has become somewhat stripped of identity by the homogenizing effect of technology. So, more than ever, people want to project their own individuality.

Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.

We deliver many different messages to people of our generation. I want them to get good energy by listening to BTS music.

I don’t see any of my colleagues as rivals. I don’t think our generation needs to do that. We are a chilled out lot, and we should all be happy.

I got engaged, married, and divorced in 15 months in Hollywood, so, you know what I’m saying? We’re out here putting rings on it! That’s what our generation does, we put a ring on it, you know what I’m saying?

German militarism and Nazism have devastated twice in our generation the lands of German neighbors.

Miloslav Mecir – best anticipation of any player in our generation for sure. The most flexible… and then crazy good hands. He is the best player in the world to not have won a slam, for sure. No question in my mind. He should have won three or four.

I think women of our generation went through Cultural Revolution, went through hardship, coming from nowhere, and suddenly see China’s amazing opportunity. So women just seized the opportunity.

I’m in agreement with David Miliband when he says our generation of Labour politicians are not willing to hand over the direction of the country without a serious electoral fight.

Freddie Kruger, Jason, Michael Myers – they’re all our generation. I think the kids wanted some new guys that they could take ownership of and Jigsaw was that guy.

What our generation hopefully is doing is not believing in that so-called bad luck that Canada has with figure skating at the Olympics.

There’s Dick Van Dyke and John Ritter, the two greatest physical comics of our generation.

Our generation is the most cinematically saturated of all time. Videotapes, DVD’s, streaming… Spielberg… all of it has thrust us into an endless loop of consumption.

I have come to the conclusion that none of us in our generation feels as guilty about sin as we should or as our forefathers did.

It is unfortunately true that our generation and that of your parents have left you with a big mess that will now be yours to clean up: wars, budget challenges, pollution, global warming, battles of health care, natural disasters. They’re all there for you. We’re willing those to you. Are you ready?

I just am a clean air freak. I grew up in the woods. I worked in China for a bit and was exposed to all the resources being used and the pollution and felt strongly that for our generation, the biggest economic and societal problem is energy.

‘Skins’ has been such a great thing for our generation – I don’t want it to become a parody of itself.

I went on a cross-country trip with three buddies to find out what our generation is about. I bought a video camera, started shooting, learned as I went, and ended up with ‘Our Time,’ a feature-length documentary about what it’s like to be young in America. I was hooked.

Greedo is one of the most important California artists of 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.

Capitalism and power politics have made our generation creatively sluggish, and our vital art is mired in a broad bourgeois philistinism.

Rappers are the white authors of our generation. They know me, my language, my codes, my family, my block.

I read an article about 60 being the new 30 the other week, and I think it’s very true. Our generation has not done what previous generations did and just got old and sat in a corner.

I am Warhol. I am the No. 1 most impactful artist of our generation. I am Shakespeare in the flesh.

Looking back 25 years later, what I may say is that the facts have been far better than the dreams. In the long course of cell life on this earth it remained, for our age for our generation, to receive the full ownership of our inheritance.

I want our generation to break stereotypes, and I want Indians who are making their foray in Hollywood to get all kinds of roles.

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.

When everybody looks at our generation of kids, they always call us the misfits – you know, like we just don’t give a damn.

Tom Brady blew me away. Who’s the most famous athlete of our generation: Tom Brady? LeBron? Messi? Ronaldo? Serena Williams? Maybe I haven’t been around enough to know how the biggest stars really act. But Brady is a normal guy.

The greatest revolution in our generation is that of human beings, who by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.

I don’t think there is only one Arab culture or a pure Arabness. We are very multiple, especially our generation, which is very multilayered.

The first step is really getting our generation to talk to our parents about cancer. Because our research has shown that parents are much more likely to get that diagnostic test or stay on top of their risk profile if it comes from a child.

Masayoshi Son is one of the most innovative and impactful thinkers and problem-solvers of our generation.

I do think that some of us began to realize that this was going to be a long struggle that was going to go on for decades, and you’d have to knuckle down. A lot of people in our generation did that. They didn’t drop out and run away.

Waiting is a big part of life. We don’t like to admit that, especially our generation; we don’t like to wait on stuff. We want stuff immediately.

In our generation, everybody told us that it’s really important and it’s nice to be able to speak a lot of languages. It’s an art, too. It really impresses me, people who speak, like, seven languages. I admire them so much, so I began with English, and then Spanish and maybe Portuguese.

I think Kanye West is – people don’t give him the credit he deserves for what he has brought to our generation.

Of course, I’m drawn to a place like Iraq because It’s the biggest story of our generation.

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.

Our generation has been described as a golden generation. I hate that term.

I think our generation, my generation at least, has become much more comfortable with unconventional romantic relationships.

Education is the investment our generation makes in the future.

I think that’s the challenge of our generation: if we are all technology natives, how do we live with influence both online and off, and how do we make sure that both of those aren’t lacking in some type of deeper human connection and substance?

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.

Falling in love in our generation just isn’t as popular as it used to be.

We were all on this ship in the sixties, our generation, a ship going to discover the New World. And the Beatles were in the crow’s nest of that ship.

Since Sept. 11, many of the wars of our generation are in the Muslim world. So as a woman, I have access to 50 percent of the population that my male colleagues don’t.

I think social media has taken over for our generation. It’s a big part of our lives, and it’s kind of sad.

L.A. is a big city that has a lot of music in it but is not necessarily known for it. A lot of musicians got lost in that. You can make a living; you can gig a lot within the city and never get out of it. That was something that me and my friends, our generation, were afraid of happening to us.

David Longstreth is one of the great guitar heroes of our generation.

All I wanted to do was create theater for us, for our generation, for the people of this planet. And it’s so rare that the art that you are making is reaching a huge mass of people.

It may take a generation to achieve democracy. But our generation must accomplish this and not pass the buck to the next.