Famous Quotes & Sayings

We were informed by the corporation that the 360 Next Generation Project was being studied and may not be built.

Al Franken

I'm from the Vietnam generation. I didn't serve.

Al Gore

We can't negotiate the facts. We can't negotiate the truth about the situation. And for those who are too fearful to finish, it can be done and must be done. Make sure we succeed, . . . It is wrong for this generation to destroy the habitability of our planet and ruin the prospects of every future generation.

Alanis Morissette

I see the whole concept of Generation X implies that everyone has lost hope.

Edward Norton

My generation is having its midlife crisis in its 20s.

Bruno Bettelheim

What cannot be talked about cannot be put to rest. And if it is not, the wounds will fester from generation to generation.

Archie Shepp

A whole generation of young whites have involved themselves with traditional Negro music.

Avi Rubin

As new generations [of computers] come out, usually there are increased complexity and features, [that lead to] increased security problems. Plus, other industries have shown that every new generation has its own set of security problems.

Brian Aldiss

Let's have a toast-to the future generation of consumers, however many heads or assholes they have!

Liz Ellis

The real beneficiaries will be the next generation of netballers and other professional sportswomen.

Dean Koontz

Only once in a generation does anything as fresh as a vomiting detective come along.

Edward Kennedy

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

Ayelet Waldman

Why are the architects of the family-values agenda so eager to punish into the next generation? What is being served by seeking, quite literally, a tooth for a tooth?

C. S. Lewis

Education is only the most fully conscious of the channels whereby each generation influences the next.

Cobi Jones

You want to teach the next generation so they can learn a little bit faster and a little bit more so everything becomes that much better.

Arthur Hays Sulzberger

Speakers are not supposed to waste time on platitudes, but the capacity of this generation for ignoring the obvious and concentrating on the negative and the obscure is immense.

Kris Jenner

I raised my kids kind of old-fashioned - if you don't have something nice to say, then don't say it at all. I teach love, acceptance, and tolerance... I sometimes think that this generation is lacking in decency.

We openly talk about wilderness in this administration. We are not scared of the word. We use it openly. And I think the next generation of users is going to come to Maine for wilderness experiences.

Albert Einstein

The most aggravating thing about the younger generation is that I no longer belong to it.

Albert Einstein

In science, moreover, the work of the individual is so bound up with that of his scientific predecessors and contemporaries that it appears almost as an impersonal product of his generation.

Alexander Herzen

Unaware of the absurdity of it, we introduce our own petty household rules into the economy of the universe for which the life of generations, peoples, of entire planets, has no importance in relation to the general development.

Travis Barker

Volunteering is the last thing that this generation is going to do on their own, ... so if this is what it takes to get them to volunteer, then so be it.

Karen Kain

It's a different era. Our job now is to show leadership and vision and to help the next generation of artists.

Keith Sweat

The talk-box thing that T-Pain does is something new and different for this generation because they don't know about Zapp or Teddy Riley. I think he's creative and has made the talk-box his own in the hip-hop world, but if these young ones studied their musical history, they'd know that.

We have lost touch with a generation of Pakistani military leaders.

Vinod Khosla

You know, one of the great things about most renewable technologies - not every technology, but many of them - is the jobs have to be local. When you're talking about a power plant and power generation using solar thermal technology, the jobs will be where the plant is.

Amanda Burton

It would show hugely if I didn't want to be somewhere. Doing what you want to do can only generate good energy.

Adam Smith

A power to dispose of estates for ever is manifestly absurd. The earth and the fulness of it belongs to every generation, and the preceding one can have no right to bind it up from posterity. Such extension of property is quite unnatural.

Laura Leighton

I was on 'Melrose' at a time where we had to all go home and be there at the same time when the show was on, or set your VCR. But that was a big thing, and people of my generation still talk about that. They remember where they were, at what point of their lives that show came, and then talking about it the next day.

Today's generation of kids, going back in their history books, they don't know about World War II. Abbott and Costello, who are they?

Ludwig von Mises

It has always been the task of the new generation to provoke changes.

People aren't clamoring for the next generation of DVD. It's too complicated, too expensive, and they don't see the benefits.

Jerry Mathers

Our generation is the first to have grown up with TV. I'm one of the first kids that they watched grow up on television.