Famous Quotes & Sayings

We're taking a lot of the people out of the market permanently. We're losing a whole generation of investors.

The state has turned us into a generation of gamblers.

Daniel Ellsberg

The Sixties: The Years That Shaped a Generation

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

Russell Hoban

My generation was somewhat between things, neither free nor much supported by whatever held us in.

Trip Hawkins

With our next generation hardware, polygon rendering will probably be an area we'll get more heavily into.

Thomas S. Monson

Can we somehow muster the courage and steadfastness of purpose that characterized the pioneers of a former generation? Can you and I, in actual fact, be pioneers [today]?

Ronald Reagan

We may be the generation that sees Armageddon.

Valerie Solanas

Why produce even females? Why should there be future generations? What is their purpose? When aging and death are eliminated, why continue to reproduce? Why should we care what happens when we're dead? Why should we care that there is no younger generation to succeed us?

Wilfrid Sheed

Every writer is a writer of the generation before.

Thomas Bangalter

We come from a generation that wanted to make electronic music accepted, at a time [when] it was not.

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.

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.