Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ann Patchett

Maybe that was the definition of life everlasting: the belief that the next generation would carry your work forward.

Chuck Palahniuk

Katherine Kenton remains among the generation of women who feel that the most sincere form of flattery is the male erection.

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.

E. O. Wilson

In the process of natural selection, then, any device that can insert a higher proportion of certain genes into subsequent generations will come to characterize the species.

Douglas Coupland

Discussions of generations only go downhill. There's no point in having them.

Claudia Jones

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

Dave Grohl

The whole slacker generation totally didn't apply to us musically.

David Perlmutter

Gluten is this Generation's Tobacco

David Eddings

All social workers want is to get everyone involved in a programme. Because a programme provides full employment for three generations of social workers. And they mess up.

Billy Graham

It's sometimes comical to hear the younger generation ask their peers to repeat themselves.

Louis C. K.

I grew up in a generation that had exponential technological advances.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Love, like a carefully loaded ship, crosses the gulf between the generations.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

We live not by things, but by the meaning of things. It is needful to transmit the passwords from generation to generation.

Carrie Underwood

I feel like I'm a product of this generation where everybody listens to charts with diverse music.

Bette Davis

I was the Marlon Brando of my generation.

Bill Vaughan

All change, all production and generation are effected through the word.

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.

Ludwig von Mises

It has always been the task of the new generation to provoke changes.

E. F. Schumacher

A way of life that ever more rapidly depletes the power of the Earth to sustain it and piles up ever more insoluble problems for each succeeding generation can only be called violent.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Gertrude Stein

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

Ernest Hemingway

You are all a lost generation. [with credit to Gertrude Stein]