Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Christina Ricci

I don't know who Peter Lorre is. Pathetic right? It shows you how completely gross and uncultured my generation is.

Frantz Fanon

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

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.

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.

The state has turned us into a generation of gamblers.

Daniel Ellsberg

The Sixties: The Years That Shaped a Generation

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.

What people don't realize is that it was a really big hangout for the younger generation in Hoboken.

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

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.

We're past the first generation of mobile devices. Many technical hurdles have been eliminated, and that will be reflected in the market.

Tom Bosley

There's no regard for human life at all. Our younger generation just has no regard.

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,

The involvement of youngsters in online communities today is qualitatively, not quantitatively, different than it was a generation ago.

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

The new plane has a good market potential around the world. The new generation Hawk will give the pilot a new training experience.

The needs and opportunities of the older generation will be a lot more important.

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.

I'm 60 years old, and I'm ready to let the next generation spread their wings.

In green building, that's a long time ago. Probably a generation ago.

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.

Steve Ballmer

This is the next generation of the Internet,

This is the next generation HD format. We are no longer looking at simulations or prototypes.

Darren Star

In the moment when you're doing a show, you're thinking of that moment, but you don't think of, 'Here's down the line how people will be relating to the characters.' There's something very universal about 'Sex and the City' that people are still tapping into, where every generation seems to be discovering for itself.

Jeremy Rifkin

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