Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Laura Leighton

I was on 'Melrose' at a time where we had to all go home and be there at the same time when the show was on, or set your VCR. But that was a big thing, and people of my generation still talk about that. They remember where they were, at what point of their lives that show came, and then talking about it the next day.

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.

Alexander Herzen

Unaware of the absurdity of it, we introduce our own petty household rules into the economy of the universe for which the life of generations, peoples, of entire planets, has no importance in relation to the general development.

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.

Travis Barker

Volunteering is the last thing that this generation is going to do on their own, ... so if this is what it takes to get them to volunteer, then so be it.

Karen Kain

It's a different era. Our job now is to show leadership and vision and to help the next generation of artists.

Keith Sweat

The talk-box thing that T-Pain does is something new and different for this generation because they don't know about Zapp or Teddy Riley. I think he's creative and has made the talk-box his own in the hip-hop world, but if these young ones studied their musical history, they'd know that.

Kris Jenner

I raised my kids kind of old-fashioned - if you don't have something nice to say, then don't say it at all. I teach love, acceptance, and tolerance... I sometimes think that this generation is lacking in decency.

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.

Ian Schrager

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

With every generation of collections stuff gets slimmer and slimmer and slimmer.

We have to be responsive to the marketplace. This young generation now in its 20s likes choices. We saw that in marketing products to them when they were teenagers.

Louis C. K.

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

Lech Walesa

Why did we do all of it? To launch a new epoch, one without divisions. Without one shot, our generation was able to do 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.

James Russell

We are seeing the passing of a generation of historians at UTC.

Billy Graham

It's sometimes comical to hear the younger generation ask their peers to repeat themselves.

Alex Lifeson

I don't know how many times I heard older people, and not just parents but just older people, say, 'Oh, my God. Your generation is just totally nuts. You have no sense of what it was really like, when it was great.' And every generation has that same feeling, you know?

Alex Lifeson

It's a wonderful thing to be able to see your music going from generation to generation.

Today's generation of kids, going back in their history books, they don't know about World War II. Abbott and Costello, who are they?

Ludwig von Mises

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

We have a generation of young people who have grown up with recycling, and now they can't throw a can away. I think that will happen with water conservation. The priority should be in helping people learn how to do it themselves.

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.

E. F. Schumacher

A way of life that ever more rapidly depletes the power of the Earth to sustain it and piles up ever more insoluble problems for each succeeding generation can only be called violent.

People aren't clamoring for the next generation of DVD. It's too complicated, too expensive, and they don't see the benefits.

Marc (Jacobs) and I were the last generation who could grow on our own. We just squeaked in,

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.