Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Russell Lowell

Literature, properly so called, draws its sap from the deep soil of human nature's common and everlasting sympathies, the gathered leaf-mound of countless generations, and not from any top dressing capriciously scattered over the surface.

Jon Foreman

I wanna be a part of the generation that throws out money, throws out time, throws out all that we are against something bigger than ourselves.

Petra Kelly

We, the generation that faces the next century, can add the solemn injunction ''If we don't do the impossible, we shall be faced with the unthinkable.

Peter Drucker

A business enterprise must continue beyond the lifetime of the individual or of the generation to be capable of producing its contributions to economy and to society.

Martin Scorsese

I didn't realize there are generations who do not know about the origins of film.

Steve Israel

As you know, Social Security functions under the premise that today's workers will help finance benefits for retirees and that these workers will then be supported by the next generation of workers paying into the same system.

Stephen Sondheim

With videotaping, on the second generation you're already losing some of the freshness.

Pearl S. Buck

Sooner or later the young always betrayed the old.

Shimon Peres

In the Middle East, the conflict today is a matter of generations and not of cultures.

Stephenie Meyer

Maybe I was what Leah thought she was. Some kind of dead end that shouldn’t be passed on to another generation. Or maybe it was just that my life was a big, cruel joke, and there was no escape from the punch line. -Jacob

T Bone Burnett

Music was the medium through which knowledge was passed from generation to generation.

Rosario Dawson

This future is ours to embrace. Whether we, the established generations, choose to accept that is in our court.

Tony Judt

How should we begin to make amends for raising a generation obsessed with the pursuit of material wealth and indifferent to so much else?

Steven Spielberg

Only a generation of readers will span a generation of writers.

Stephan Pastis

If you're from a certain generation, you basically learn to read with 'Peanuts.' It's sort of the template for the modern strip. Its influence ceased to be noticed because it's in everything.

Stendhal

It is difficult to escape from the prevailing disease of one's generation.

Scott Weiland

To be appreciated by a whole 'nother generation of fans, all of a sudden discovering you, it's kind of what I did with the classic bands I love - the ones that influenced me.

Susan Sontag

Each generation has to reinvent spirituality.

Lennie James

I'm part of that generation that grew up watching TV, and being an actor was all about being on TV or being in films.

Russell Hoban

My generation was somewhat between things, neither free nor much supported by whatever held us in.

Trip Hawkins

With our next generation hardware, polygon rendering will probably be an area we'll get more heavily into.

Thomas S. Monson

Can we somehow muster the courage and steadfastness of purpose that characterized the pioneers of a former generation? Can you and I, in actual fact, be pioneers [today]?

Ronald Reagan

We may be the generation that sees Armageddon.

Valerie Solanas

Why produce even females? Why should there be future generations? What is their purpose? When aging and death are eliminated, why continue to reproduce? Why should we care what happens when we're dead? Why should we care that there is no younger generation to succeed us?

Wilfrid Sheed

Every writer is a writer of the generation before.

Thomas Bangalter

We come from a generation that wanted to make electronic music accepted, at a time [when] it was not.

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.