Famous Quotes & Sayings

Andrew Sullivan

Every generation is born into, for the most part, a heterosexual family.

Amanda Burton

It would show hugely if I didn't want to be somewhere. Doing what you want to do can only generate good energy.

Susan B. Anthony

Every generation of converts threshes over the same old straw.

David Riesman

It is not new for the older generation to bewail the indolence of the young, and there is a tendency for the latter to maintain much of the older ethic screened by a new semantics and an altered ideology.

Edward Kennedy

[W]ords are fine, but it has to be what a generation reads into those words.

Dean Koontz

Only once in a generation does anything as fresh as a vomiting detective come along.

Cobi Jones

You want to teach the next generation so they can learn a little bit faster and a little bit more so everything becomes that much better.

Arthur Hays Sulzberger

Speakers are not supposed to waste time on platitudes, but the capacity of this generation for ignoring the obvious and concentrating on the negative and the obscure is immense.

Avi Rubin

As new generations [of computers] come out, usually there are increased complexity and features, [that lead to] increased security problems. Plus, other industries have shown that every new generation has its own set of security problems.

Brian Aldiss

Let's have a toast-to the future generation of consumers, however many heads or assholes they have!

Dave Chappelle

My generation is under-entertained.

David Guterson

I'm interested in themes that endure from generation to generation.

Cesare Pavese

The problems that agitate one generation are exstinguished for the next, not because they have been solved but because the general lack of interest sweeps them away.

Chita Rivera

You know I've got a generator that's still popping.

Charles Baudelaire

The immense profundity of thought in vulgar locutions, like holes dug by generations of ants.

Bob Barr

The 2011 riots in England, which left five dead and caused more than $300 million in property damage, were fueled by a generation of young Brits who grew up without ever hearing the word No.

Bill Maher

The younger generation is supposed to rage against the machine, not for it. They're supposed to question authority, not question those who question authority.

Bill Gates

what are the top 20 universities in the world that do good materials research that might create carbon fibers to do jet stream kites or new magnets that will allow [energy] generation to be done up there and you just bring the electricity down. You either have to bring down rotational energy, which is hard, or you have to have the generator up there and bring down the electricity. Well, putting the generator up there is hard to do because it's too heavy.

Diane Watson

Social Security is a program that should be strengthened and preserved for future generations.

Claudia Jones

If anything is going to halt necessary investments in next generation networks it will be Congress dictating business models to companies.

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)

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.

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.