Famous Quotes & Sayings

Samuel Beckett

The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh. Let us not then speak ill of our generation, it is not any unhappier than its predecessors. Let us not speak well of it either. Let us not speak of it at all. It is true the population has increased.

Vasily Grossman

In the cruel and terrible time in which our generation has been condemned to live on this earth, we must never make peace with evil. We must never become indifferent to others or undemanding of ourselves.

Moshe Sharett

I have learned that the state of Israel cannot be ruled in our generation without deceit and adventurism.

Patrick Stewart

Violence against women is the single greatest human rights violation of our generation,

Eric Liu

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.

Lyndon B. Johnson

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

Frank Luntz

I tell this joke about Barack Obama is the best communicator of our generation: The guy reads a teleprompter better than any Hollywood actor. John McCain, his opponent - Stevie Wonder reads a teleprompter better than John McCain.

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.

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.

William S. Burroughs

Like many nonconformist and beat generation writers, William S. Burroughs takes the outcasts of society as his theme.

Ronald Reagan

We may be the generation that sees Armageddon.

Zinedine Zidane

Scholes is undoubtedly the best midfielder of his generation.

Joseph A. Schumpeter

It is quite possible that future generations will look upon arguments about the inferiority of the socialist plan as we look upon Adam Smith's argument about joint stock companies which, also, were simply false.

Louis Pasteur

My opinion - nay more, my conviction- is that, in the present state of science, as you rightly say, spontaneous generation is a chimera ; and it would be impossible for you to contradict me, for my experiments all stand forth to prove that spontaneous generation is a chimera.

Ellen Goodman

This packrat has learned that what the next generation will value most is not what we owned, but the evidence of who we were and the tales of how we loved. In the end, it's the family stories that are worth the storage.

Pierre Salinger

Whole generations have forgotten history.

Nelson Mandela

When the history of our times is written, will we be remembered as the generation that turned our backs in a moment of global crisis or will it be recorded that we did the right thing?

Nelly Furtado

Our connection to nature grounds us, it makes us more spiritually aware. We must keep the legacy of nature materially alive for future generations.

Winston Churchill

I am not invested with dictatorial powers. If I were, I should be quite ready to dictate.

Zig Ziglar

Quit counting time and start making time count

Larry Holmes

There is no quit in me.

Louis Sachar

The time you quit learning is the time to quit playing.

Norman Vincent Peale

It is always to early to quit.

Sandra Mason

Switch every 30 minutes. I sometimes put a rock or something to show where I am quitting the weeding.

Milton Berle

If you hire relatives, you'll have a payroll that won't quit.

Nikki Giovanni

History is wonderful. We have so much we can learn if we would quit making ideology out of history, and just deal with what happened.

Kristin Armstrong

I had to quit triathlons, I continued to be active and worked in advertising agency .