Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Mindy Kaling

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

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.

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.

Kim Hunter

It's hard to compare actors from different generations.

Geraldo Rivera

I'm in my 10th generation of TV critic now.

Geraldo Rivera

It's a great pleasure having survived six generations of TV critics

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.

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.

Joseph A. Schumpeter

It is quite possible that future generations will look upon arguments about the inferiority of the socialist plan as we look upon Adam Smith's argument about joint stock companies which, also, were simply false.

Jo Brand

Each generation has a backlash against the generation before.

James St. James

The generation that has the greatest access to knowledge in the history of mankind is the one that cares the least about it.

Ellen Goodman

This packrat has learned that what the next generation will value most is not what we owned, but the evidence of who we were and the tales of how we loved. In the end, it's the family stories that are worth the storage.

Julian Castro

And because he knows that we don't have an ounce of talent to waste, the president took action to lift the shadow of deportation from a generation of young, law-abiding immigrants called dreamers.

Each new generation is a fresh invasion of savages.

Helen Reddy

There is a wealth of twentieth century music that is being re-discovered by a generation that hasnt heard it.

Kevin Whately

My family have been around Northumberland for five generations.

Kesha Rogers

We know that the next several generations need a better world to live in, which can only be a post-Obama World.

Masashi Kishimoto

The next generation will always surpass the previous one. It's one of the never-ending cycles in life.

Mary Augusta Ward

we all grow on somebody's grave ...

Michael Chabon

Every generation loses the Messiah it has failed to deserve.

Erik Erikson

Mans true taproots are nourished in the sequence of generations, and he loses his taproots in disrupted developmental time, not in abandoned localities.

Michael Porter

The U.S. is facing a structural competitiveness problem that is leading to the weakest economy we have seen in generations.

John Mott

No other generation but ours can evangelize the present generation.

George Leonard

Preventing the new generation from changing in any deep way is what most societies require of their educators.

Garrett Hardin

Education can counteract the natural tendency to do the wrong thing, but the inexorable succession of generations requires that the basis for this knowledge be constantly refreshed.