Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Hemant Mehta

This is money going on I, me, myself. A generation ago, there's no way that the Indian male would have been spending this sort of money on his looks.

This is a great opportunity to train the next generation of IT (information technology) professionals. They are the first line of defense.

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.

Peter Drucker

A business enterprise must continue beyond the lifetime of the individual or of the generation to be capable of producing its contributions to economy and to society.

Martin Scorsese

I didn't realize there are generations who do not know about the origins of film.

Charles Phillips

A lot of those standards are in middleware. The next generation of applications will be a lot more middleware dependent, so you have to start there.

Ron Paul

The younger generation isn't gravitating toward that. They've grown up with many more options. They're more interested in experimenting and in healthy, natural foods.

The Web is a great opportunity in terms of revenue generation and for our correspondents to produce a lot of programming.

Steve Israel

As you know, Social Security functions under the premise that today's workers will help finance benefits for retirees and that these workers will then be supported by the next generation of workers paying into the same system.

Stephen Sondheim

With videotaping, on the second generation you're already losing some of the freshness.

Pearl S. Buck

Sooner or later the young always betrayed the old.

Shimon Peres

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

Stephenie Meyer

Maybe I was what Leah thought she was. Some kind of dead end that shouldn’t be passed on to another generation. Or maybe it was just that my life was a big, cruel joke, and there was no escape from the punch line. -Jacob

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.

Tony Judt

How should we begin to make amends for raising a generation obsessed with the pursuit of material wealth and indifferent to so much else?

Steven Spielberg

Only a generation of readers will span a generation of writers.

Stephan Pastis

If you're from a certain generation, you basically learn to read with 'Peanuts.' It's sort of the template for the modern strip. Its influence ceased to be noticed because it's in everything.

Stendhal

It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one's generation.

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.

Susan Sontag

Each generation has to reinvent spirituality.

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.

Jeffrey Schwartz

Drive-up stores represent the next generation for McDonald's in China.

Each generation is being reduced by about a third.

We're very happy the numbers have come back though. The next generation will go to Texas to breed, the next generation will be in the Carolinas, and the next will come back to Connecticut.

We're very happy the numbers have come back though, ... The next generation will go to Texas to breed, the next generation will be in the Carolinas, and the next will come back to Connecticut,

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.

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.

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.