Quotes of: Our-generation Keyword

We look our best in subdued colors, sophisticated cuts, and a general air of sleek understatement.

Jil Sander

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

Orlando Bloom

I realized then that the generations may change but the strength of our nation remains solid.

Jane D. Hull

The awakening of the people of China to the possibilities under free government is the most significant, if not the most momentous, event of our generation.

Woodrow Wilson

The hippie movement politicized my generation. When it ended, we all started looking back at our own history, looking, in my case, for motives of rebellion.

Vivienne Westwood

Well, I grew up around the magazine and was part of a generation that was embracing our sexuality.

Christie Hefner

With life in general, desires rule our thoughts in most aspects.

Auliq Ice

Thinking is like exercise, it requires consistency and rigor. Like barbells in a weightlifting room, the classics force us to either put them down or exert our minds. They require us to think.

A Thomas Jefferson Education: Teaching a Generation of Leaders for the Twenty-first Century

Yes, brothers and sisters, the mission of the Church is glorious-to invite all of us to come unto Christ through proclaiming the gospel, perfecting our lives, and redeeming our dead. As we come unto Christ, we bless our own lives, those of our famili...

Ezra Taft Benson

It cannot be denied that as institutions, churches do good work. They operate schools and hospitals. Their charity outreaches, which take care of the homeless, sick, and hungry, have real impacts on communities. And while there are certainly hellfire...

More Likely to Quote Star Wars than the Bible: Generation X and Our Frustrating Search for Rational Spirituality

Walk into any church, and you will see people swimming in a sea of emotions (everything from shame and guilt to love and ecstasy). That may be the reason some people think that the more emotional they are, the more spiritual they are. But, as we will...

More Likely to Quote Star Wars than the Bible: Generation X and Our Frustrating Search for Rational Spirituality

For example, the call for equal rights has perverted into “let’s all be the same.” Male and female biological differences are discounted, because “male” and “female” are considered “outdated social constructs,” and while that is par...

More Likely to Quote Star Wars than the Bible: Generation X and Our Frustrating Search for Rational Spirituality

Growth seems to evolve from a narrow-minded, constricted worldview (selfish) to an ever-more-encompassing worldview (multiperspective caring). To put it simply, the more self-centered you are, the lower you tend to land on these scales, while the mor...

More Likely to Quote Star Wars than the Bible: Generation X and Our Frustrating Search for Rational Spirituality

For more than twenty years, I have been seeking a way to be both rational and spiritual. I have been looking for a ray of hope in an otherwise-compartmentalized world in which people segregate religious aspirations and rationality in the hope of not ...

More Likely to Quote Star Wars than the Bible: Generation X and Our Frustrating Search for Rational Spirituality

Mindful consumption is the object of this precept. We are what we consume. If we look deeply into the items that we consume every day, we will come to know our own nature very well. We have to eat, drink, consume, but if we do it unmindfully, we may ...

For a Future to Be Possible: Buddhist Ethics for Everyday Life

Quite honestly, if we do manage to destroy the planet with our devil-may-care attitude to natural resources, I'd suggest we leave, as a dossier in our defence, the collected letters to agony aunts and uncles down the generations. It would certainly p...

Mariella Frostrup

Vanity's contribution to Fiction in general was an abundance of cheap labour and the occasional blockbuster, which was accepted into Fiction with an apologetic 'gosh, don't know how that happened'.

One of Our Thursdays Is Missing

Each generation has its own rendezvous with the land, for despite our fee titles and claims of ownership, we are all brief tenants on this planet. By choice, or by default, we will carve out a land legacy for our heirs.

Stewart Udall

When you get into the third or fourth generation of Latino immigrants to the United States, you see the kids speaking more English than Spanish, and it's important that we don't lose our identity, our language.

Thalia

As parents, we have the responsibility and the power to create a foundational love for nutritious foods that will influence our children's choices for decades to come, setting the stage for our children, grandchildren, and future generations to flour...

Leah Borski

As young adults, we were wearing the shoes of the new future. Our generation would soon be the ones to determine the political climate of our country, the constitution of a family, and the morality of man. What an awesome burden we carried.

Lynda I Fisher