Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ellen Key

While the women of the older generation were thankful if only they succeeded in obtaining 'a work and a duty,' however monotonous and wearing it might be, the will of the younger generation for a pleasurable labour has fortunately increased.

History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.

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.

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.

We openly talk about wilderness in this administration. We are not scared of the word. We use it openly. And I think the next generation of users is going to come to Maine for wilderness experiences.

We have lost touch with a generation of Pakistani military leaders.

Vinod Khosla

You know, one of the great things about most renewable technologies - not every technology, but many of them - is the jobs have to be local. When you're talking about a power plant and power generation using solar thermal technology, the jobs will be where the plant is.

Polling tells us that this generation is very interested in doing public service, but they're more likely to look to the non-profit sector to scratch that itch.

Rocco Landesman

one of the most important American playwrights ever. I think his work is going to speak to generation after generation of theatergoers.

My generation was taught to go to school, get an education, get a job and live happily ever after. Do you see the problem?

John Updike

My generation was maybe the last in which you could set up shop as a writer and hope to make a living at it.

P. J. O'Rourke

My generation of Americans was the first to really care about racism and sexism, not to mention the I Ching, plus, of course, the Earth.

My generation have had it good, and I am really troubled by what we have done with it.

Lindsey Graham

If being intelligent, brilliant, a superb lawyer, the greatest legal mind of your generation and well qualified is not enough, what is?

I don't think we understood that last year, but this year we've gotten better at understanding that we need to pull the next generation along. Next year, they're not going to have any seniors. They have to be ready to do the same things we're doing. Then they'll understand why we're always on them. When it's their turn, they'll be ready.

C. S. Lewis

Education is only the most fully conscious of the channels whereby each generation influences the next.

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.

Edward Norton

My generation is having its midlife crisis in its 20s.

Ian Schrager

The trimmings of wealth are not as important to me and my generation as they were to my parents' generation.

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.

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?

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.

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.

What it means right now is that Greenland is producing 20 percent of the sea rise. We think that contribution will increase from generation to generation.

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.

Douglas Coupland

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

Claudia Jones

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