Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ernest Hemingway

I thought that all generations were lost by something and always had been and always would be

Fiona Shaw

Every generation is obsessed with the decade before they were born.

Jean-Claude Juncker

For my generation, the monetary union has always been about forging peace.

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.

Christina Ricci

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

Frantz Fanon

Each generation must discover its mission, fulfill it or betray it, in relative opacity.

Christine Keeler

I took on the sins of everybody, of a generation, really.

Christie Hefner

Well, I grew up around the magazine and was part of a generation that was embracing our sexuality.

Faith Baldwin

Every generation proclaims that each must lead his own life, but seldom grants the subsequent generation the right to lead theirs.

George Plimpton

Rick Bass is one of the best writers of his generation.

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.

Jeremy Rifkin

Generations of human beings were transformed into machines in the relentless pursuit of material wealth: We lived to work.

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.

Mindy Kaling

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

Karl Marx

The traditions of the dead generations weigh like a nightmare upon the living.

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.

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.

Jim Cummings

I get to be one of the torch-bearers for a new 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.

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)

John F. Kennedy

It is time for a new generation of leadership.

Jonah Hill

A whole generation was raised to learn about comedy from 'The Simpsons.' To get to be in a booth with Homer and Marge and be in Springfield - it was unimaginable the emotions that I felt.

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.

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.