Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

David Eddings

All social workers want is to get everyone involved in a programme. Because a programme provides full employment for three generations of social workers. And they mess up.

Dave Grohl

The whole slacker generation totally didn't apply to us musically.

Jack Kerouac

The beat generation (coined in Playboy)

Ira Gershwin

The future of this nation, with the present generation, You must admit is nothing but a joke

Scott Weiland

To be appreciated by a whole 'nother generation of fans, all of a sudden discovering you, it's kind of what I did with the classic bands I love - the ones that influenced me.

George Leonard

Preventing the new generation from changing in any deep way is what most societies require of their educators.

Garrett Hardin

Education can counteract the natural tendency to do the wrong thing, but the inexorable succession of generations requires that the basis for this knowledge be constantly refreshed.

Each new generation is a fresh invasion of savages.

Helen Reddy

There is a wealth of twentieth century music that is being re-discovered by a generation that hasnt heard it.

Marianne Williamson

My story has been the story of my generation.

Nikki Sixx

We want to keep extending our brand into different places, into movies and soundtracks and our music will live on through licensing and our brand lives on through merchandise and new generations will get to wear our clothing and our T-shirts and stuff that's associated with us.

Pearl S. Buck

Sooner or later the young always betrayed the old.

John S. Watson

Natural gas will displace coal in power generation. Getting natural gas into the transportation fleet is harder. It works best for vehicles that work from centralized fueling facilities like trucking fleets or buses and cabs. That is happening. Before it can make big inroads beyond that, infrastructure is going to need to be developed.

Petra Kelly

We, the generation that faces the next century, can add the solemn injunction ''If we don't do the impossible, we shall be faced with the unthinkable.

James Russell Lowell

Enthusiasm begets enthusiasm, eloquence produces conviction for the moment; but it is only by truth to Nature and the everlasting institutions of mankind that those abiding influences are won that enlarge from generation to generation.

James Russell Lowell

Literature, properly so called, draws its sap from the deep soil of human nature's common and everlasting sympathies, the gathered leaf-mound of countless generations, and not from any top dressing capriciously scattered over the surface.

Jon Foreman

I wanna be a part of the generation that throws out money, throws out time, throws out all that we are against something bigger than ourselves.

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.

Max Brooks

Generation Z, they cleaned up their own mess.

Plato

The mortal nature is seeking as far as is possible to be everlasting and immortal: and this is only to be attained by generation, because the new is always left in the place of the old.

Kevin Whately

My family have been around Northumberland for five generations.

Kesha Rogers

We know that the next several generations need a better world to live in, which can only be a post-Obama World.

Jo Brand

Each generation has a backlash against the generation before.

James St. James

The generation that has the greatest access to knowledge in the history of mankind is the one that cares the least about it.

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.

Simon Le Bon

Music is not supposed to be nationalist. It is supposed to surpass language barriers. It is about generations communicating with each other.

Tinie Tempah

Every generation that comes from this family has to do better than the last.

Lennie James

I'm part of that generation that grew up watching TV, and being an actor was all about being on TV or being in films.