Famous Quotes & Sayings

Fred Rogers

One of the greatest dignities of humankind is that each successive generation is invested in the welfare of each new generation.

Gunter Grass

I belonged to the generation that grew up under National Socialism, and was blinded and led astray - and allowed itself to be led astray.

Jean Baudrillard

Imagine the amazing good fortune of the generation that gets to see the end of the world. This is as marvelous as being there in the beginning.

Mindy Kaling

Is this a generation of orphans who are going to the improv to do stand-up?

Karl Marx

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

Myles Munroe

You came to earth to answer a question God knew would be asked. You are the solution to a problem in your generation.

Itzhak Perlman

A Century of Wisdom is universal and will enrich readers for generations to come.

Grace Paley

For me, the meaning of life is the next generation.

Gertrude Stein

You are all a lost generation.

Jim Cummings

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

Francis Schaeffer

To fail to exhibit that we take truth seriously at those points where there is a cost in our doing so, is to push the next generation in the relative, dialectical millstream that surrounds us.

Sasha Alexander

I am not even part of this whole microwave generation that is my generation, Gen X. I'm right in the middle of it.

Ira Gershwin

The future of this nation, with the present generation, You must admit is nothing but a joke

Jack Kerouac

The beat generation (coined in Playboy)

Nuno Bettencourt

I know many people who grew up in the '70s, and my generation stopped listening to anything after 1979 because they're not into it.

Jack Johnson

I try to sing songs to the kids that will inspire them, and so the next generation they start working hard, and then the little guys they see you guys working hard and they get inspired by you.

They'd have to sell off the generation assets.

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.

John F. Kennedy

It is time for a new generation of leadership.

Jonah Hill

A whole generation was raised to learn about comedy from 'The Simpsons.' To get to be in a booth with Homer and Marge and be in Springfield - it was unimaginable the emotions that I felt.

Joel Osteen

Don't be so shortsighted that if it doesn't happen right now, you're not going to be happy. You are sowing seeds that will reap a great harvest for generations to come.

Joe Biden

Don't listen to the cynics. They were wrong about my generation and they were wrong about yours.

Leon Botstein

Schooling, by definition, must be conservative. It is naturally dependent on an older generation’s level of knowledge and sense of values.

Leo Tolstoy

If Mormonism is able to endure, unmodified, until it reaches the third and fourth generation, it is destined to become the greatest power the world has ever known.

Pearl S. Buck

Sooner or later the young always betrayed the old.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The prophet and the quack are alike admired for a generation, and admired for the wrong reasons.

John Lahr

The British playwright Nina Raine is one of her generation's most promising talents.

John Banville

We carry the dead with us only until we die too, and then it is we who are borne along for a little while, and then our bearers in their turn drop, and so on into the unimaginable generations.

Leonard Cohen

There's no concession to the fact that Dylan might be a more sophisticated singer than Whitney Houston, that he's probably the most sophisticated singer we've had in a generation. Nobody is identifying our popular singers like a Matisse or Picasso. Dylan's a Picasso - that exuberance, range, and assimilation of the whole history of music.

Julianna Baggott

The generation of women who came before us did much of our shouting. They laid the groundwork and now we can be calm and constant and steady.

Kabir Bedi

I am going to produce a movie of my own. I am not going to stick to the time-tested formulae of Hindi cinema. I want to make a film for the present generation. So there will be a lot of new faces in the film.

Paul Di Filippo

Every new generation of SF writers remakes cyberpunk - a genre often laced with dystopian subtexts - in its own image.

Marshall McLuhan

The meaning of experience is typically one generation behind the experience. The content of new situations, both private and corporate, is typically the preceding situation.