Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

Chita Rivera

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

Charles Baudelaire

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

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.

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.

Bill Maher

The younger generation is supposed to rage against the machine, not for it. They're supposed to question authority, not question those who question authority.

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.

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!

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.

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.