Famous Quotes & Sayings

Daniel Ellsberg

The Sixties: The Years That Shaped a Generation

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

Karl Marx

The traditions of the dead generations weigh like a nightmare upon the living.

Jim Cummings

I get to be one of the torch-bearers for a new generation.

Jeremy Rifkin

Generations of human beings were transformed into machines in the relentless pursuit of material wealth: We lived to work.

The next generation is losing interested in tree farming. If we lose them, the land is just going to get converted.

It's a process that's been in use for hundreds of years, and there's such a tradition in it. It's been passed down from generation to generation.

It's a slower pace. There's a wider generation of people here you have young and old.

It shall not be quenched night nor day; the smoke thereof shall go up for ever: from generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it for ever and ever.

It was an idealistic vision that generation had.

It was kind of nice as a veteran and older guy to lead the generation out there.

Mats Sundin

It means a lot to Swedish hockey. I think this generation of players, we are getting older, and this is probably our last chance, so it's great.

It's another link between profligacy and power. We're the first generation on the planet where if you're successful you don't (always) have more children.

Marcus Samuelsson

As people of color, it took a whole generation in many ways to get us out of the kitchen, and it's gonna take us the same whole generation to get us back into the kitchen and have ownership of restaurants, hotels and stuff like that.

David Robertson

the most gifted of the new generation of American conductors.

Folklore used to be passed by word of mouth, from one generation to the next; thats what makes it folklore, as opposed to, say, history, which is written down and stored in an archive.

Jackson Browne

You can take as much as you can from the generation that has preceded you, but then it's up to you to make something new.

Frantz Fanon

Each generation must discover its mission, fulfill it or betray it, in relative opacity.

Jean-Claude Juncker

For my generation, the monetary union has always been about forging peace.

Ernest Hemingway

You are all a lost generation. [with credit to Gertrude Stein]

Ernest Hemingway

I thought that all generations were lost by something and always had been and always would be

Gro Harlem Brundtland

Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.

Giuliano Amato

The older generations have eaten the future of the younger ones.

Generation Y wants more meaningful work and is looking for more give-and-take from their employers. They want a lot of responsibilities and also to do work that is interesting to them.

Christine Keeler

I took on the sins of everybody, of a generation, really.

Christie Hefner

Well, I grew up around the magazine and was part of a generation that was embracing our sexuality.

Faith Baldwin

Every generation proclaims that each must lead his own life, but seldom grants the subsequent generation the right to lead theirs.

George Plimpton

Rick Bass is one of the best writers of his generation.

I'm interested in what the next generation is about.

Fiona Shaw

Every generation is obsessed with the decade before they were born.

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.

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