Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Fiona Shaw

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

Mindy Kaling

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

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.

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.

Kim Hunter

It's hard to compare actors from different generations.

Geraldo Rivera

I'm in my 10th generation of TV critic now.

Geraldo Rivera

It's a great pleasure having survived six generations of TV critics

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.

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.

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.

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.