Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pearl S. Buck

Sooner or later the young always betrayed the old.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

The prophet and the quack are alike admired for a generation, and admired for the wrong reasons.

John Lahr

The British playwright Nina Raine is one of her generation's most promising talents.

John Banville

We carry the dead with us only until we die too, and then it is we who are borne along for a little while, and then our bearers in their turn drop, and so on into the unimaginable generations.

Leonard Cohen

There's no concession to the fact that Dylan might be a more sophisticated singer than Whitney Houston, that he's probably the most sophisticated singer we've had in a generation. Nobody is identifying our popular singers like a Matisse or Picasso. Dylan's a Picasso - that exuberance, range, and assimilation of the whole history of music.

Julianna Baggott

The generation of women who came before us did much of our shouting. They laid the groundwork and now we can be calm and constant and steady.

Kabir Bedi

I am going to produce a movie of my own. I am not going to stick to the time-tested formulae of Hindi cinema. I want to make a film for the present generation. So there will be a lot of new faces in the film.

Paul Di Filippo

Every new generation of SF writers remakes cyberpunk - a genre often laced with dystopian subtexts - in its own image.

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.

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.

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..

Margaret Oliphant

every generation has a conceit of itself which elevates it, in its own opinion, above that which comes after it.

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?

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.

Leopold Von Ranke

Every generation is equidistant from God.

Paul Cezanne

Perhaps I was born too early. I was more the painter of your generation than of mine.

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

Kim Hunter

It's hard to compare actors from different generations.

Kenneth Koch

Maybe there are three or four really good poets in a generation.

Michael Douglas

Everything's so repressive now - it's the No generation. You can't do anything, you can't eat anything, you have to abstain.

Michael Douglas

The history of second-generation actors isn't great in our industry,

Ravi Zacharias

When secularization has had its full sway, it will leave a generation devoid of shame. And if you show me a generation that lacks shame, I will show you a generation that is monstrous in its appetite... never satisfied.

Michael Porter

The U.S. is facing a structural competitiveness problem that is leading to the weakest economy we have seen in generations.

Todd Rokita

I don't know anything more piggish - I don't know anything more un-American than saying, 'Oh, I'm worried about my own little handout or my own little program or my own little economy and we'll kick this can down the road and let some future generation deal with it.

Simon Wiesenthal

The new generation has to hear what the older generation refuses to tell it.

Melanie Fiona

I'm a first-generation Canadian.

Ninette de Valois

Hardly any generation wants to take the whole of the last generation, it just wants to take its best bits.

John S. Watson

Natural gas will displace coal in power generation. Getting natural gas into the transportation fleet is harder. It works best for vehicles that work from centralized fueling facilities like trucking fleets or buses and cabs. That is happening. Before it can make big inroads beyond that, infrastructure is going to need to be developed.

Max Brooks

Generation Z, they cleaned up their own mess.