Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Ludwig von Mises

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

Annie Dillard

In literary history, generation follows generation in a rage.

Annie Dillard

There were no formerly heroic times, and there was no formerly pure generation. There is no one here but us chickens, and so it has always been.

Cullen Hightower

Older generations are living proof that younger generations can survive their lunacy.

E. O. Wilson

In the process of natural selection, then, any device that can insert a higher proportion of certain genes into subsequent generations will come to characterize the species.

Claudia Jones

If anything is going to halt necessary investments in next generation networks it will be Congress dictating business models to companies.

Ann Patchett

Maybe that was the definition of life everlasting: the belief that the next generation would carry your work forward.

Chuck Palahniuk

Katherine Kenton remains among the generation of women who feel that the most sincere form of flattery is the male erection.

Doris Lessing

For she was of that generation who, having found nothing in religion, had formed themselves through literature.

Douglas Coupland

How can I be a part of the 1960s generation when I don't even remember any of it?

Douglas Coupland

Discussions of generations only go downhill. There's no point in having them.

Andrew Sullivan

Every generation is born into, for the most part, a heterosexual family.

Susan B. Anthony

Every generation of converts threshes over the same old straw.

David Perlmutter

Gluten is this Generation's Tobacco

Louis C. K.

I grew up in a generation that had exponential technological advances.

Mindy Kaling

Is this a generation of orphans who are going to the improv to do stand-up?

Karl Marx

The traditions of the dead generations weigh like a nightmare upon the living.

Nicholas Sparks

What the younger generation didn't understand was that the grass was greenest where it's watered..

Geraldo Rivera

I'm in my 10th generation of TV critic now.

Geraldo Rivera

It's a great pleasure having survived six generations of TV critics

Itzhak Perlman

A Century of Wisdom is universal and will enrich readers for generations to come.

Grace Paley

For me, the meaning of life is the next generation.

Marshall McLuhan

The meaning of experience is typically one generation behind the experience. The content of new situations, both private and corporate, is typically the preceding situation.

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.

Gertrude Stein

You are all a lost generation.

Jim Cummings

I get to be one of the torch-bearers for a new generation.

Jeremy Rifkin

Generations of human beings were transformed into machines in the relentless pursuit of material wealth: We lived to work.

Fred Rogers

One of the greatest dignities of humankind is that each successive generation is invested in the welfare of each new generation.

Gunter Grass

I belonged to the generation that grew up under National Socialism, and was blinded and led astray - and allowed itself to be led astray.