Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Be just before you are generous.

Tinie Tempah

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

Thucydides

In generosity we are equally singular, acquiring our friends by conferring, not by receiving, favours.

Rumi

The ground's generosity takes in our compost and grows beauty! Try to be more like the ground.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Noblesse oblige; or, superior advantages bind you to larger generosity.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is always so pleasant to be generous, though very vexatious to pay debts.

Shimon Peres

In the Middle East, the conflict today is a matter of generations and not of cultures.

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.

Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen

Nonprofits are the intermediaries between generosity and social change.

Simon Sinek

Generosity is doing something for someone else expecting nothing in return.

Kabir Bedi

I am going to produce a movie of my own. I am not going to stick to the time-tested formulae of Hindi cinema. I want to make a film for the present generation. So there will be a lot of new faces in the film.

Paul Di Filippo

Every new generation of SF writers remakes cyberpunk - a genre often laced with dystopian subtexts - in its own image.

Each new generation is a fresh invasion of savages.

Hesiod

Drink your fill when the jar is first opened, and when it is nearly done, but be sparing when it is half-empty; it's a poor savingwhen you come to the dregs.

Henry Paulson

I didn't get the charm gene.

Helen Reddy

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

Henry Ward Beecher

Watch lest prosperity destroy generosity.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

The generous person is always just, and the just who is always generous may, unannounced, approach the throne of heaven.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Giving is the business of the rich.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The prophet and the quack are alike admired for a generation, and admired for the wrong reasons.

Rabindranath Tagore

All that is not given is lost.

Pearl S. Buck

Sooner or later the young always betrayed the old.

Thomas Jefferson

One generation cannot bind another.

Thomas Jefferson

I have overlived the generation with which mutual labors & perils begat mutual confidence and influence.

Thomas Jefferson

We shall all consider ourselves unauthorized to saddle posterity with our debts, and morally bound to pay them ourselves; and consequently within what may be deemed the period of a generation, or the life of the majority.

Tacitus

Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.

T Bone Burnett

Music was the medium through which knowledge was passed from generation to generation.

Rosario Dawson

This future is ours to embrace. Whether we, the established generations, choose to accept that is in our court.

Richard P. Feynman

If you know that you are not sure, you have a chance to improve the situation. I want to demand this freedom for future generations.

Thomas S. Monson

Can we somehow muster the courage and steadfastness of purpose that characterized the pioneers of a former generation? Can you and I, in actual fact, be pioneers [today]?