Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

That glorious vision of doing good is so often the sanguine mirage of so many good minds.

Charles Caleb Colton

I have found by experience that they who have spent all their lives in cities, improve their talents but impair their virtues; and strengthen their minds but weaken their morals.

Alan Moore

This city is dying of rabies. Is the best I can do to wipe random flecks of foam from its lips?

Alan Moore

London has been used as the emblematic English city, but it's far from representative of what life in England is actually about.

Alan Hansen

Manchester City have been in the doldrums for a while, they came up and went straight back down again.

Alan Bean

Eventually there are going to be cities in space.

Alan Autry

A natural disaster in one American city is a natural disaster in every American city, including Fresno and, for that matter, every city and small town in the San Joaquin Valley,

Alan Autry

You don't need a city charter to know that education is the foundation of any community.

Alaina Huffman

If youre a singer, you do concerts, and you get that interaction with fans and see what cities in what part of the world come out to see you. When youre on television, youre removed from that.

Chita Rivera

You know I've got a generator that's still popping.

David Riesman

It is not new for the older generation to bewail the indolence of the young, and there is a tendency for the latter to maintain much of the older ethic screened by a new semantics and an altered ideology.

Charles Baudelaire

The immense profundity of thought in vulgar locutions, like holes dug by generations of ants.

Bob Barr

The 2011 riots in England, which left five dead and caused more than $300 million in property damage, were fueled by a generation of young Brits who grew up without ever hearing the word No.

Cesare Pavese

The problems that agitate one generation are exstinguished for the next, not because they have been solved but because the general lack of interest sweeps them away.

Edward Kennedy

[W]ords are fine, but it has to be what a generation reads into those words.

Bill Gates

what are the top 20 universities in the world that do good materials research that might create carbon fibers to do jet stream kites or new magnets that will allow [energy] generation to be done up there and you just bring the electricity down. You either have to bring down rotational energy, which is hard, or you have to have the generator up there and bring down the electricity. Well, putting the generator up there is hard to do because it's too heavy.

Diane Watson

Social Security is a program that should be strengthened and preserved for future generations.

Dave Chappelle

My generation is under-entertained.

Mark Cuban

Everyone is passionate about something. Usually more than one thing. We are born with it.

Jane Levy

At college, I wasn't passionate about anything I was studying.

Mike Rogers

they do it because they were courageous, passionate and brave.

Jane Goodall

I see that within each human being there are two extremes: there's the loving, the passionate, altruistic side that has evolved with us, and then there's the violent, brutal side that has evolved with us. The question for each individual is: which side is going to come out on top?

Bridgit Mendler

I'm really passionate about music.

Deepak Chopra

Be passionate about your life and the experiences you fill it with.

Dave Ramsey

Be intense, passionate, and fired up, but about things that matter, things that change your life and your legacy.

Martin Henderson

There is nothing I feel that connected or passionate about that would take me away from acting.

Cotton Mather

You may ... make a little recreation of poetry, in the midst of your painful studies. Nevertheless, I cannot but advise you. Withhold thy throat from thirst. Be not so set upon poetry, as to be always poring on the passionate and measured pages. ... let not the Circean cup intoxicate you.