Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Shakespeare

Their manners are more gentle, kind, than of our generation you shall find.

Bill Ayers

Chicago '68 was a relatively small demonstration for its time, but I've talked to millions of people who claim they were there because it felt like we were all there. Everyone from our generation was there and was at Woodstock.

Alison Moyet

It is interesting seeing young people these days and watching how unimportant music is in their lives compared with our generation.

Donald Sutherland

He doesn't translate well into our generation.

Aneurin Bevan

Now, the vicissitudes that afflict the individual have their source in society. It is this situation that has given currency to the phrase social forces. Personal relations have given way to impersonal ones. The Great Society has arrived and the task of our generation is to bring it under control. The study of how it is to be done is the function of politics.

Dilma Rousseff

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.

Ernest Cline

I noticed in the late 1990s that my friends and I were already nostalgic for the 1980s, and by the turn of the century, VH1's 'I Love the '80s' gave all of us an accelerated nostalgia for our generation.

Pranab Mukherjee

In our generation, the role models were Gandhi and Nehru. We revered them. They were venerated personalities. I read almost every speech of Nehru.

Niall Ferguson

It’s our generation that is witnessing the end of Western predominance. The average American used to be more than 20 times richer than the average Chinese. Now it’s just five times, and soon it will be 2.5 times.

Carrie Underwood

I feel like I'm a product of this generation where everybody listens to charts with diverse music.

Bette Davis

I was the Marlon Brando of my generation.

Bill Vaughan

All change, all production and generation are effected through the word.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Love, like a carefully loaded ship, crosses the gulf between the generations.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

We live not by things, but by the meaning of things. It is needful to transmit the passwords from generation to generation.

E. F. Schumacher

A way of life that ever more rapidly depletes the power of the Earth to sustain it and piles up ever more insoluble problems for each succeeding generation can only be called violent.

Diane Watson

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

Dave Chappelle

My generation is under-entertained.

David Guterson

I'm interested in themes that endure from generation to generation.

Charlie Chaplin

If anybody else says it's like old times, I'll jump out the window.

James Wolcott

Everyone is entitled to his own nostalgia.

Demetri Martin

I remember when I used to be really into nostalgia.

Abbie Hoffman

Nostalgia is a form of depression both for a society and an individual.

Andrei Codrescu

Nostalgia is masochism and masochism is something masochists love to share.

Michael Hagan

Let's get on with the nostalgia at the end of the season.

Juan Ramon Jimenez

Sharp nostalgia, infinite and terrible, for what I already possess.

Miuccia Prada

Nostalgia is a very complicated subject for me. I'm attracted by nostalgia but I refuse it intellectually.

Jean Baudrillard

We are all hostages, and we are all terrorists. This circuit has replaced that other one of masters and slaves, the dominating and the dominated, the exploiters and the exploited. It is worse than the one it replaces, but at least it liberates us from liberal nostalgia and the ruses of history.