Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

John F. Kennedy

It is time for a new generation of leadership.

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.

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.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

Louis Pasteur

My opinion - nay more, my conviction- is that, in the present state of science, as you rightly say, spontaneous generation is a chimera ; and it would be impossible for you to contradict me, for my experiments all stand forth to prove that spontaneous generation is a chimera.

Max Brooks

Generation Z, they cleaned up their own mess.

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.

Leopold Von Ranke

Every generation is equidistant from God.

Pierre Salinger

Whole generations have forgotten history.

Nelson Mandela

When the history of our times is written, will we be remembered as the generation that turned our backs in a moment of global crisis or will it be recorded that we did the right thing?

Nelly Furtado

Our connection to nature grounds us, it makes us more spiritually aware. We must keep the legacy of nature materially alive for future generations.

Kenneth Koch

Maybe there are three or four really good poets in a generation.

Kelly Clarkson

I feel like as a generation, we sell ourselves short. I just expected more from us.

Margaret Thatcher

I love his music because he was my generation. But then again, Elvis is everyone's generation, and he always will be.

Paul Cezanne

Perhaps I was born too early. I was more the painter of your generation than of mine.

Margaret Oliphant

every generation has a conceit of itself which elevates it, in its own opinion, above that which comes after it.

Nikki Sixx

We want to keep extending our brand into different places, into movies and soundtracks and our music will live on through licensing and our brand lives on through merchandise and new generations will get to wear our clothing and our T-shirts and stuff that's associated with us.

Nicholas Sparks

What the younger generation didn't understand was that the grass was greenest where it's watered..

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.

Marianne Williamson

My story has been the story of my generation.

Christina Ricci

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

Gertrude Stein

A creator is so completely contemporary that he has the appearance of being ahead of his generation.

Ninette de Valois

Hardly any generation wants to take the whole of the last generation, it just wants to take its best bits.