Famous Quotes & Sayings

Roger Craig

There's not a more generous guy on the planet.

Tom Bosley

There's no regard for human life at all. Our younger generation just has no regard.

The townspeople have been very generous in supporting our fund-raising effort.

Melanie Fiona

I'm a first-generation Canadian.

Nicolas Chamfort

We need to be just before we are generous, as we need shirts before ruffles.

Ravi Zacharias

When secularization has had its full sway, it will leave a generation devoid of shame. And if you show me a generation that lacks shame, I will show you a generation that is monstrous in its appetite... never satisfied.

Rainer Maria Rilke

To be here is immense.

Michael Porter

The U.S. is facing a structural competitiveness problem that is leading to the weakest economy we have seen in generations.

Seth Godin

Fans, true fans, are hard to find and precious. Just a few can change everything. What they demand, though, is generosity and bravery.

Margaret Oliphant

every generation has a conceit of itself which elevates it, in its own opinion, above that which comes after it.

Merle Shain

It takes great generosity to accept generosity.

Masashi Kishimoto

The next generation will always surpass the previous one. It's one of the never-ending cycles in life.

Mason Cooley

Generosity knows how to count, but refrains.

Mary Augusta Ward

we all grow on somebody's grave ...

Michael Chabon

Every generation loses the Messiah it has failed to deserve.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

The poor never estimate as a virtue the generosity of the rich.

Millard Fuller

The only safe investment one can make in life is what is given away.

Mignon McLaughlin

We'd all like a reputation for generosity, and we'd all like to buy it cheap.

Ninette de Valois

Hardly any generation wants to take the whole of the last generation, it just wants to take its best bits.

Mitch Albom

The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others...

Miguel de Cervantes

What is bought is cheaper than a gift.

Theodore White

You can't get unless you give. And you have to give without wanting to get.

Margaret Mead

there are now no elders who know more than the young themselves about what the young are experiencing.

Michael Douglas

Everything's so repressive now - it's the No generation. You can't do anything, you can't eat anything, you have to abstain.

Michael Douglas

The history of second-generation actors isn't great in our industry,

Leopold Von Ranke

Every generation is equidistant from God.

Paul Cezanne

Perhaps I was born too early. I was more the painter of your generation than of mine.

Seth Godin

If there's time for an emergency, why isn't there time for brilliance, generosity or learning?

Seth Godin

Be relentlessly generous, without focusing on when it will come back to you.

Tom Allen

The Sudanese have delighted me, not only in their generosity and simplicity, but also in their tendency to take tea with milk and not to hesitate to dunk biscuits in it. As an Englishman, you can imagine the feeling of fraternal closeness that this activity has generated.

Todd Rokita

I don't know anything more piggish - I don't know anything more un-American than saying, 'Oh, I'm worried about my own little handout or my own little program or my own little economy and we'll kick this can down the road and let some future generation deal with it.

Simon Wiesenthal

The new generation has to hear what the older generation refuses to tell it.

Ovid

The gift derives its value from the rank of the giver.