Chosen Generation Quotes

#1. In my generation, there was a single girl given the strength and skill to fight the spread of darkness ... but in your generation, there are nearly two thousand with the powers of the slayer, and not all of them have chosen to use their newfound abilities conscientiously.

Joss Whedon

#2. I am no supporter of factory labor for children, but I have never joined with those who clamored against proper work of children on farms outside their school hours.

Herbert Hoover

#3. He paused for a moment before opening a door on the second story.

Charles Dickens

#4. A society which is clamouring for choice, which is filled with many articulate groups, each urging its own brand of salvation, its own variety of economic philosophy, will give each new generation no peace until all have chosen or gone under, unable to bear the conditions of choice.

Margaret Mead

#5. A mistake constantly made by those who should know better is to judge people of the past by our standards rather than their own. The only way men or women can be judged is against the canvas of their own time.

Louis L'Amour

#6. Everybody in the minor leagues - if you're a player, an announcer, whatever - wants to be in the big leagues.

Ernie Harwell

#7. It (politician) wants to separate them. And to do so it has chosen the worst, blackest pencil of all - the pencil of war, which spells only misery and death.

Zlata Filipovic

#8. I think I'm part of a generation of crime writers all of whom woke up independently and recoiled with horror at the fact that we'd chosen this very conservative genre.

Laura Lippman

#9. You were chosen by God to create the destiny of the nation and to lay a foundation for the generations to come

Sunday Adelaja

#10. Apparently, for some reason known only to themselves, these people ... have chosen to cling to hydrocarbon-fueled power generation well past the point at which they could have replaced it with nuclear generation.

David Weber

#11. Life seems to speed up as we get older because life gets less memorable as we get older.

Joshua Foer

#12. You must show the world that you are a chosen generation

Sunday Adelaja

#13. I am wonderful creation of God.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#14. I couldn't imagine anything that could have made Coleman more of a mystery to me than this unmasking. Now that I knew everything, it was as though I knew nothing

Philip Roth

#15. I didn't think anyone would anticipate this move, because it was so clearly insane.

Ernest Cline

#16. To conceive of a god in one's image is already quite a feat for inflated egos. To imagine, however, that this likeness has chosen your generation amongst the thousands for ending the party is to bring the egocentrism to new heights.

Anthony Marais

#17. I've spent more time in traffic than Steve Winwood.

Don Reo

#18. Act as if you are the person you want to be.

Bernie Siegel

#19. In every generation there is a chosen one. She alone will stand against the vampires the demons and the forces of darkness. She is the slayer.

Joss Whedon