Generations famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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I have to say, this sounds like the worst idea in a thousand generations of bad ideas." "You haven't heard all our ideas." Luke & Bhindi Drayson
-- Aaron Allston -
One of the biggest mistakes companies make is brute force lead generation - "give me more leads!" -when they don't understand that not all leads are the same.
-- Aaron Ross -
We therefore must keep the faith, despite the defeat of policies, because men pass with their policies whilst generations follow each other.
-- Abdoulaye Wade -
The fiery trials through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the latest generation.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
A statesman is he who thinks in the future generations, and a politician is he who thinks in the upcoming elections.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
We are all fixing what is broken. It is the task of a lifetime. We'll leave much unfinished for the next generation.
-- Abraham Verghese -
Every generation tailors history to its taste.
-- Ada Louise Huxtable -
I’m doing pretty well. If you don’t get married, you can’t get divorced. Why couldn’t we learn from the devastatingly low percentage of successful marriages that our last generation went through?
-- Adam Levine -
I'm actually the fourth generation in my family to have no practical use for the church, or God, or religion. My children continue this trend.
-- Adam Savage -
That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.
-- Adlai E. Stevenson -
Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation.
-- Adlai E. Stevenson -
I had a feeling that my generation-and me, also-we were naked. We did not belong to anything.
-- Aharon Appelfeld -
One has to nurture a new generation, to raise children in the spirit of Islam.
-- Akhmad Kadyrov -
Today's younger generation is no worse than my own. We were just as ignorant and repulsive as they are, but nobody listened to us.
-- Al Capp -
We have a planetary emergency. We have to find a way to create, in the generation of those alive today, a sense of generational mission.
-- Al Gore -
The next generation product almost never comes from the previous generation.
-- Al Ries -
We should not be ashamed to acknowledge truth from whatever source it comes to us, even if it is brought to us by former generations and foreign peoples. For him who seeks the truth there is nothing of higher value than truth itself.
-- Al-Kindi -
Leadership requires the courage to make decisions that will benefit the next generation.
-- Alan Autry -
The number one problem in today's generation and economy is the lack of financial literacy.
-- Alan Greenspan -
Our masters have not heard the people's voice for generations and it is much, much louder than they care to remember.
-- Alan Moore -
I fear the day technology will surpass our human interaction. The world will have a generation of idiots.
-- Albert Einstein -
The most aggravating thing about the younger generation is that I no longer belong to it.
-- Albert Einstein -
This generation must know that the total truthfulness of the bible is under continual assault...
-- Albert Mohler -
Our ideals, laws and customs should be based on the proposition that each generation in turn becomes the custodian rather than the absolute owner of our resources - and each generation has the obligation to pass this inheritance on in the future.
-- Alberto Moravia -
The question of the next generation will not be one of how to liberate the masses, but rather, how to make them love their servitude.
-- Aldous Huxley -
I wanted to work with Cate Blanchett. She is one of the five greatest movie actresses of her generation.
-- Alec Baldwin -
The nation is a community. Community of individuals, community of generations.
-- Aleksander Kwasniewski -
Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience... from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn -
We are Scotland's independence generation. And our time is now
-- Alex Salmond -
By looking at climate change as a clean energy generation problem, we're setting ourselves up not to solve it.
-- Alex Steffen -
I think the new generations in America, the America's youth, no longer care about Vietnam. They don't want to hear any more about it.
-- Alexander Haig -
Unaware of the absurdity of it, we introduce our own petty household rules into the economy of the universe for which the life of generations, peoples, of entire planets, has no importance in relation to the general development.
-- Alexander Herzen -
It is possible to lead astray an entire generation, to strike it blind, to drive it insane, to direct it towards a false goal. Napoleon proved this.
-- Alexander Herzen -
The modern individual is committed to being successful, not to being a person. He belongs rightly to the action generation whose motto is do more but feel less.
-- Alexander Lowen -
You know, I'm part of that first MTV generation.
-- Alexandra Patsavas -
Shakespeare is the Joss Whedon of his generation.
-- Alexis Denisof -
Each generation has its few great mathematicians, and mathematics would not even notice the absence of the others. They are useful as teachers, and their research harms no one, but it is of no importance at all. A mathematician is great or he is nothing.
-- Alfred Adler -
Sometimes in the history of art it is possible to describe a period or a generation of artists as having been obsessed by a particular problem.
-- Alfred H. Barr, Jr. -
Modern American literature was born in protest, born in rebellion, born out of the sense of loss and indirection which was imposed upon the new generations out of the realization that the old formal culture-the "New England idea"-could no longer serve.
-- Alfred Kazin -
From education by the Church to education by Germanic value is a step of several generations.
-- Alfred Rosenberg -
We think of poverty as a condition simply meaning a lack of funds, no money, but when one sees fifth, sixth, and seventh generation poor, it is clear that poverty is as complicated as high finance.
-- Alice Childress -
I came from a generation of actors for whom TV was taboo.
-- Alicia Silverstone -
Undefined Christianity is not a problem in our generation. It is defined Christianity that brings the rub.
-- Alistair Begg -
Nothing is more singular about this generation than its addiction to music.
-- Allan Bloom -
There is a possibility that your ability as a player may well be analysed by future generations on your one day statistics. That's the day I dread most.
-- Allan Border -
Affection is the most important thing. And the quality of affection - with your friends, your lovers, your family. But particularly for your own generation.
-- Allen Ginsberg -
The older generation sat looking at the younger, and Kat wondered exactly when and how the baton had been passed. She wanted to know if it was too late to give it back.
-- Ally Carter -
We must protect our most precious resource, our environment, for future generations.
-- Alma Adams -
It is statistically proven that the strongest institution that guarantees procreation and continuity of the generations is marriage between one man and one woman. We don't want genocide. We don't want to destroy the sacred institution of marriage.
-- Alveda King -
It would show hugely if I didn't want to be somewhere. Doing what you want to do can only generate good energy.
-- Amanda Burton -
My father comes from a generation of film that actors my age don't even know about, which is really sad
-- Amber Tamblyn -
Our ancestors derived less from life than we do, but they also expected much less and were less intent on controlling the future. We are of the arrogant generations who believe a lasting happiness was promised to us at birth. Promised? By whom?
-- Amin Maalouf -
A chaste generation would restore Paradise.
-- Amos Bronson Alcott -
We'll continue to see more and more brands integrate social causes, charitable components and environmental issues as underlying themes to their campaigns and messaging. Humans connect with humans after all, and brands are using this as a point of connection to engage with their audience, especially charity-minded Generation Y.
-- Amy Jo Martin -
A man must be sacrificed now and again to provide for the next generation of men.
-- Amy Lowell -
A whole generation of writers dined out on the dialectic between original cultures and their culture by "progress.
-- Anatole Broyard -
Unfortunately, the current generation of mail programs do not have checkers to see if the sender knows what he is talking about.
-- Andrew S. Tanenbaum -
The previous generation, such as Alec Stewart and Nasser Hussain, lost to Australia on many occasions.
-- Andrew Strauss -
We think it is complicated to change the world. Change comes little by little. Nothing worthwhile can happen in one generation.
-- Andrew Young -
There are generations yet unborn, whose very lives will be shifted and shaped by the moves you make and the actions you take.
-- Andy Andrews -
Every generation thinks that they invented sex.
-- Andy Grove -
There have been great champions in every generation.
-- Andy Roddick -
More and more good actors are now transmigrating into the videogame space and playing roles there because it's where my generation of kids get stories from.
-- Andy Serkis -
I think there will always be a particular generation of actors who think that they're going to be replaced by robots. But certainly the emerging actors understand that that's part of the craft.
-- Andy Serkis -
Now, the vicissitudes that afflict the individual have their source in society. It is this situation that has given currency to the phrase social forces. Personal relations have given way to impersonal ones. The Great Society has arrived and the task of our generation is to bring it under control. The study of how it is to be done is the function of politics.
-- Aneurin Bevan -
I grew up in a physical world, and I speak English. The next generation is growing up in a digital world, and they speak social.
-- Angela Ahrendts -
It is both humiliating and humbling to discover that a single generation after the events that constructed me as a public personality, I am remembered as a hairdo.
-- Angela Davis -
I'm getting more towards that point where I'm ready to kind of pass the torch on and see the next generation succeed behind me.
-- Angela Ruggiero -
I pray every day for my little girls. It's hard out there for the younger generation.
-- Angie Harmon -
I'd love to be the political voice of my generation, but that's not my gift.
-- Anita Baker -
Historically, in my generation, all of my heroes and heroines have had issues and problems. We all do.
-- Anita Baker -
it may be said that children are but newly-issued editions of old compositions, re-bound and corrected, with fresh introductions, modern print and headpieces, but the text is that of former editions handed down from generation to generation.
-- Anna Kingsford -
What one generation sees as a luxury, the next sees as a necessity.
-- Anthony Crosland -
Democracy is something that you must learn each generation. It has to be taught.
-- Anthony Kennedy -
As the Constitution endures, persons in every generation can invoke its principles in their own search for greater freedom.
-- Anthony Kennedy -
The case for freedom, the case for our constitutional principles the case for our heritage has to be made anew in each generation. The work of freedom is never done.
-- Anthony Kennedy -
My generation was, in effect, the product of a social experiment. If we did not understand marital intimacy, it was because we had not seen it modelled. We lurched from relationship to relationship, dazzled by the newness of meaninglessness, relentless in our search for something even the most perceptive of us could not identify.
-- Antonella Gambotto-Burke -
There is no reason to regret that I cannot finish the church. I will grow old but others will come after me. What must always be conserved is the spirit of the work, but its life has to depend on the generations it is handed down to and with whom it lives and is incarnated
-- Antonio Gaudi -
My parents' generation's benchmark was simple: Fat Equals Bad.
-- Arabella Weir -
A whole generation of young whites have involved themselves with traditional Negro music.
-- Archie Shepp -
I'm sure there were plenty of loving, attentive mothers in the 'me generation,' but none of them lived at my house.
-- Ariel Gore -
Concerning the generation of animals akin to them, as hornets and wasps, the facts in all cases are similar to a certain extent, but are devoid of the extraordinary features which characterize bees; this we should expect, for they have nothing divine about them as the bees have.
-- Aristotle -
There's a general intuition around the nonprofit world these days that younger generations are less likely to join. But I have found in my research that that's quite wrong.
-- Arthur C. Brooks -
I think there's been a reaction to the user generation source of travel information,
-- Arthur Frommer -
Speakers are not supposed to waste time on platitudes, but the capacity of this generation for ignoring the obvious and concentrating on the negative and the obscure is immense.
-- Arthur Hays Sulzberger -
Every error has its consequences and venges itself unto the seventh generation.
-- Arthur Koestler -
The Régime did not want Communists; it wanted robots. It will take at least a generation to change them back into humans again.
-- Arthur Koestler -
If I want to build wealth to transfer to the next generation, I can let it grow on a tax-free basis.
-- Arthur Nersesian -
We are the first generation of human beings to have substantial insights into the origin of our cosmos and of human life in it.
-- Arthur Peacocke -
Every generation of children has its private hero.
-- Arthur Smith -
If you would do the best with your life, find out what God is doing in your generation and throw yourself wholly into it.
-- Arthur Wallis -
We like to learn all we need from earlier generations, but we have to find out for ourselves what we need; nobody else can do that for us.
-- Asger Jorn -
It's a struggle but that's why we exist, so that another generation of Lesbians of color will not have to invent themselves, or their history, all over again.
-- Audre Lorde -
Have we forgotten about the children, and thus forsaken the next generation?
-- Audrey Hepburn -
Man is an idiot. He doesn't know how to do anything without copying, without imitating, without plagiarizing, without aping. It might even have been that man invented generation by coitus after seeing the grasshopper copulate.
-- Augusto Roa Bastos -
As new generations [of computers] come out, usually there are increased complexity and features, [that lead to] increased security problems. Plus, other industries have shown that every new generation has its own set of security problems.
-- Avi Rubin -
Why are the architects of the family-values agenda so eager to punish into the next generation? What is being served by seeking, quite literally, a tooth for a tooth?
-- Ayelet Waldman -
I think that any wealth creates a sense of trusteeship... it is characteristic of the new generation which has created wealth to have some amount of responsibility for it.
-- Azim Premji -
We must follow the wisdom of the Brundtland Report. We must pursue development that meets the needs of the present generation without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs.
-- Ban Ki-moon -
No challenge poses a greater threat to future generations than climate change.
-- Barack Obama
