Famous Quotes & Sayings

Simon Schama

A generation without history is a generation that not only loses a nation's memory but loses a sense of what it's like to be inside a human skin.

What people don't realize is that it was a really big hangout for the younger generation in Hoboken.

We give the schools their tickets first, and then we go about selling the rest of them to the general public.

Erwin McManus

You have a generation that is saying we are tapping out of religion in many ways. But what they are not saying is that we are tapping out of a serious search for meaning in life.

We wanted to put together something that would be used by the general public, but would be used by IDOT personnel or other transportation personnel, as well.

Patrick McHenry

We've had a large undermining of our traditional values in this country. And I think that was a repercussion of the hippies in the '60s and their 'anything goes' attitude. Our generation has a realistic approach. We're not sort of pie-in-the-sky people.

Celso Amorim

We all have a general idea of the numbers, but when we reach this point, it is important to have a precise idea of the numbers.

Women can't see a man's genetic make up. So, they come to prefer good genes on the outside.

Wolf populations can generally take a 30 percent mortality rate and stay stable. If this is one year, there's nothing to worry about. If it comes to successive years, we could have a problem.

We're taking a lot of the people out of the market permanently. We're losing a whole generation of investors.

Up to now we've had the luxury of being able to stow away a lots of resources in terms of money for use in the general election. Now we'll start ramping up.

The rabbi is often the regular preacher in the synagogue, the man whose sermons offer his community more general theological and moral guidance.

Jeremy Rifkin

The other major problem with introducing GMOs is gene flow. This is as significant as buildup of resistance, probably more significant.

There is not a smoking gun. What we're seeing is that all the individual genes contribute, but there is no single gene in there that is sufficient to make that virus a killer.

The route of expropriation, and especially in energy matters, is not what most promotes investment or generates greater confidence.

Nick Schultz

It would still be a person. Like you would take out the gene for ADD, but it would still be a person. It's like taking medicine. It's not who you are.

The state has turned us into a generation of gamblers.

Daniel Ellsberg

The Sixties: The Years That Shaped a Generation

I unintentionally and unknowingly violated Massachusetts General Law,

Mark Twain

The world will not stop and think- it never does, it is not its way; its way is to generalize from a single sample

The whole point of this is to generate ideas. Innovation, that's the key. That's what we're interested in.

The way I would headline it is, the next generation of leaders has arrived.

The right actions undertaken for the right reasons generally lead to good outcomes over time.

There will be strong investor interest in commodities in general for years to come. Metals will be solid investments.

Steve Bartlett

We just had general discussions about all my guys. It wasn't anything specific.

William Hague

We will not be threatened. We intend to be in government after the next general election, so this won't really matter.

John Sherman Cooper

The tests which showed that this was the only rifle which had the markings which were shown on the bullets; the fact that a man was seen by several witnesses, not identified, but seen in the window with the general description of what he looked like.

Russell Hoban

My generation was somewhat between things, neither free nor much supported by whatever held us in.

Trip Hawkins

With our next generation hardware, polygon rendering will probably be an area we'll get more heavily into.

Pope John Paul II

The measure of your success will be the measure of your generosity.

Pope Francis

Lord, help us to live the virtue of generosity, to love without limits.

Peter Medawar

In no sense other than an utterly trivial one is reproduction the inverse of chemical disintegration. It is a misunderstanding of genetics to suppose that reproduction is only 'intended' to make facsimiles, for parasexual processes of genetical exchange are to be found in the simplest living things.

Paulo Coelho

Saying ‘No’ does not always show a lack of generosity and that saying ‘Yes’ is not always a virtue