Generations famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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A transplanted Irishman, German, Englishman is an American in one generation. A transplanted African is not one in five!
-- Barbara Chase-Riboud -
Ineluctably, the insults inflicted in one war call forth new wars of retaliation, which may be waged within months of the original conflict or generations later.
-- Barbara Ehrenreich -
Every generation reinvents the wheel - and in the process it often adds to rather than subtracts from a woman's burdens.
-- Barbara Grizzuti Harrison -
The last generation's worst fears became the next one's B-grade entertainment.
-- Barbara Kingsolver -
Every ten years there is a new generation of actors.
-- Barbet Schroeder -
I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.
-- Beatrix Potter -
I think my whole generation's mission is to kill the cliche.
-- Beck -
The glory of each generation is to make its own precedents.
-- Belva Ann Lockwood -
If current trends continue, the typical U.S. worker will be considerably more productive several decades from now. Thus, one might argue that letting future generations bear the burden of population aging is appropriate, as they will likely be richer than we are even taking that burden into account.
-- Ben Bernanke -
I have no influence with the rising generation. All my arguments have failed to induce them to set bounds to their wants.
-- Benjamin Banneker -
A great person is one who affects the mind of their generation.
-- Benjamin Disraeli -
Predominant opinions are generally the opinions of the generation that is vanishing.
-- Benjamin Disraeli -
We wanted to raise a generation of heretics, but instead we raised a generation of ignoramuses
-- Berl Katznelson -
Michael Jackson was not an artist who comes along once in a decade, a generation, or a lifetime. He was an artist who comes along only once, period… He raised the bar and then BROKE the bar!
-- Berry Gordy -
It is the generation of the unemphatic. Steal, kill, lie, fornicate, but beware of indulging with conviction.
-- Beryl Bainbridge -
We're all like little ants who scurry around with the materials that are at hand right now. Each generation finds new materials. Its just evolution, isn't it?
-- Beth Orton -
Those who criticize our generation forget who raised it.
-- Bill Cosby -
NY is the city it is today in part because of the contributions from generations of artistic visionaries
-- Bill de Blasio -
If we raise a generation of students who dont believe in the process of science, who think everything that weve come to know about nature and the universe can be dismissed by a few sentences translated into English from some ancient text, youre not going to continue to innovate,
-- Bill Nye -
All change, all production and generation are effected through the word.
-- Bill Vaughan -
Winning is very tangible, it's very exciting, it's very pleasing, but it's momentary. If you can do things that last, that each generation can build upon, then that's when you're cooking.
-- Billie Jean King -
Being spokesman for a generation is the worst job I ever had.
-- Billy Bragg -
I was part of a generation that changed the world, and it was taken over by posers.
-- Billy Corgan -
I look at other members of my generation who have basically done one thing, and one thing well, and have been handsomely rewarded for it.
-- Billy Corgan -
It's sometimes comical to hear the younger generation ask their peers to repeat themselves.
-- Billy Graham -
I was raised in a time where children were still seen and not heard basically, so I think a lot of us in my generation went the other way and just tried to be as much more liberal and open and we're still paying for it.
-- Blythe Danner -
No more generations of our youth, here and all around the world, whose life is over, whose fate has been sealed, who have been condemned to an early death or a life of misery and brutality, whom the system has destined for oppression and oblivion even before they are born. I say no more of that.
-- Bob Avakian -
The 2011 riots in England, which left five dead and caused more than $300 million in property damage, were fueled by a generation of young Brits who grew up without ever hearing the word No.
-- Bob Barr -
In a single generation, the Internet has given to virtually every person on the face of the earth the ability to communicate with fellow human beings on virtually any topic, at any time, and in every nook and cranny on the globe. This magnificent invention has done this without succumbing to government control.
-- Bob Barr -
The recent riots in France demonstrate the problem European countries face where second and third generation immigrants still do not consider themselves French, German, or English.
-- Bobby Jindal -
Generations will continue to meet the same fate unless the perennial oppressor-Britain-is removed, for she will unashamedly and mercilessly continue to maintain her occupation and economic exploitation of Ireland to judgment day, if she is not halted and ejected.
-- Bobby Sands -
Distribution has really changed. You can make a record with a laptop in the morning and have it up on YouTube in the afternoon and be a star overnight. The talent on YouTube is incredible, and it can spread like wildfire. The downside is that it's very hard to convince the younger generation that they should pay for music.
-- Bonnie Raitt -
Gay marriage is inevitable. The next generation, they get it. It is just a matter of time before it becomes a reality.
-- Brad Pitt -
Let's have a toast-to the future generation of consumers, however many heads or ***** they have!
-- Brian Aldiss -
Michele Fiore is a fighter for her constituents who gets things done in Carson City. I can always count on Michele to be a passionate advocate for her district who will make the tough votes for our future generations instead of her next election. I hope you will join me in supporting Michele Fiore for Assembly District 4.
-- Brian Sandoval -
He that confesseth not that Jesus has come in the flesh and sent Joseph Smith with the fullness of the Gospel to this generation, is not of God, but is anti-christ
-- Brigham Young -
The character of a generation is moulded by personal character.
-- Brooke Westcott -
When you know even for a moment That it's your time Then you can walk with the power Of a thousand generations
-- Bruce Cockburn -
It is the rare and strong person that can carry their trauma without having it spill into the next generation.
-- Bruce D. Perry -
The difference between my generation of actors and their generation is that they were bigger than life. We are not bigger than life
-- Bruce Dern -
I'm a fifth generation Jew from the South, and I would say that I felt this connection to my religion, but it wasn't a spiritual connection.
-- Bruce Feiler -
When I was growing up, I, like many Jews, cheered what appeared to be the receding of faith from everyday life. The further religion got from our lives the better our lives would get, I thought, because persecution had been such a burden to Jewish families for generations.
-- Bruce Feiler -
What cannot be talked about cannot be put to rest. And if it is not, the wounds will fester from generation to generation.
-- Bruno Bettelheim -
DNA is the messenger which illuminates that connection,handed down from generation to generation,carried,literally,in the bodies of my ancestors.
-- Bryan Sykes -
The dissenting opinions of one generation become the prevailing interpretation of the next.
-- Burton J. Hendrick -
As far as I know, we have never before decided to fight a war with borrowed money and ask generations that come after us to pay for it.
-- Byron Dorgan -
Life affords no greater responsibility, no greater privilege, than the raising of the next generation
-- C. Everett Koop -
Education is only the most fully conscious of the channels whereby each generation influences the next.
-- C. S. Lewis -
He plants to benefit another generation.
-- Caecilius Statius -
I come from an immigrant culture. I'm only a couple of generations away from having been a servant girl myself.
-- Caitlin Flanagan -
Scandinavian crime fiction has become a great success all across the world and rightfully so. Sjowall and Wahloo ushered in a whole generation of Swedish crime writers, many of whom are now available in English.
-- Camilla Lackberg -
What has been forgotten is that there were major intellectual breakthroughs in the 1960s, thanks to North American writers of an older generation. There was a rupture in continuity, since most young people influenced by those breakthroughs did not enter the professions.
-- Camille Paglia -
There are as many species as the infinite being created diverse forms in the beginning, which, following the laws of generation, produced many others, but always similar to them: therefore there are as many species as we have different structures before us today.
-- Carl Linnaeus -
Science is a collaborative enterprise, spanning the generations. When it permits us to see the far side of some new horizon, we remember those who prepared the way - seeing for them also.
-- Carl Sagan -
Ours is the first generation that has grown up with science-fiction ideas.
-- Carl Sagan -
We don't need to be feminist in my generation.
-- Carla Bruni -
I think the new generation is much more demanding about respect for the environment than we have ever imagined.
-- Carlos Ghosn -
But when I start to kiss someone - lust is the easiest emotion to generate.
-- Casey Affleck -
I guess there was some Casper guy, like, 10 generations ago who I'm named after. I'm the 11th. My son is Casper the XII.
-- Casper Van Dien -
A work settles nothing, just as the labor of a whole generation settles nothing. Sons, and the morrow, always start afresh.
-- Cesare Pavese -
The problems that agitate one generation are exstinguished for the next, not because they have been solved but because the general lack of interest sweeps them away.
-- Cesare Pavese -
Generations do not age. Every youth of any period, any civilization, has the same possibilities as always.
-- Cesare Pavese -
Contrary to the popular notion that only creationism relies on the supernatural, evolutionism must as well, since the probabilities of random formation of life are so tiny as to require a 'miracle' for spontaneous generation tantamount to a theological argument.
-- Chandra Wickramasinghe -
It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous.
-- Charles Dudley Warner -
The irony of the matter is that the future generations do not have a vote. In effect, we hold their proxy.
-- Charles J. Hitch -
I come from a long line of generations!
-- Charles M. Schulz -
We have come to a turning point in the road. If we turn to the right mayhap our children and our children's children will go that way; but if we turn to the left, generations yet unborn will curse our names for having been unfaithful to God and to His Word.
-- Charles Spurgeon -
If the church marries herself to the spirit of the times, she will find herself a widow in the next generation.
-- Charles Stanley -
The great arbiters of language are the women who speak it in the presence of children... What the women pass on to the next generation is "right" and what they do not bother to pass on to their children sooner or later becomes "wrong.
-- Charlton Laird -
Civilization could not exist until there was written language, because without written language no generation could bequeath to succeeding generations anything but its simpler findings.
-- Charlton Laird -
Im mad keen on recycling because Im worried about the next generation and where all this waste were producing is going. It has to stop. I wash out my plastic containers and recycle envelopes, everything I possibly can.
-- Cherie Lunghi -
Each generation of pilots hopes that they will leave their profession better off than they found it.
-- Chesley Sullenberger -
The younger generation is surrounded by the Internet, apps, and video games. But somehow, my books make them read.
-- Chetan Bhagat -
Every generation must recognize and embrace the task it is peculiarly designed by history and by providence to perform.
-- Chinua Achebe -
You know I've got a generator that's still popping.
-- Chita Rivera -
It doesn't hurt to look 75 to 100 years out, That's a gift to future generations.
-- Chris Coleman -
Lead generation excels when a campaign is looking to capture a piece of factual intelligence that could never be modelled or predicted through profiling and sophisticated propensity algorithms.
-- Chris Cunningham -
Like lycanthropy, the nerd gene can skip a generation. My maternal grandfather was a technophile.
-- Chris Hardwick -
Well, I grew up around the magazine and was part of a generation that was embracing our sexuality.
-- Christie Hefner -
We have a responsibility to carry the baton of faith to the next generation.
-- Christine Caine -
It is up to us to live up to the legacy that was left for us, and to leave a legacy that is worthy of our children and of future generations.
-- Christine Gregoire -
I took on the sins of everybody, of a generation, really.
-- Christine Keeler -
Unless we take action on climate change, future generations will be roasted, toasted, fried and grilled.
-- Christine Lagarde -
Love is the weapon for this wounded generation.
-- Christofer Drew -
We lost so many talented artists and writers from the generations before ours that we're really lacking older figureheads.
-- Christopher Bollen -
The death tax punishes the American dream - making it virtually impossible for the average American family to build wealth across generations.
-- Christopher Bond -
According to the Small Business Administration, more than 70 percent of all family businesses do not survive through the second generation, and 8 percent do not make it to a third.
-- Christopher Bond -
We're the first generation that doesn't need to be afraid of the media. We will become the media
-- Christy Haubegger -
Katherine Kenton remains among the generation of women who feel that the most sincere form of flattery is the male erection.
-- Chuck Palahniuk -
What you see at fight club is a generation of men raised by women.
-- Chuck Palahniuk -
What's burning down is a re-creation of a period revival house patterned after a copy of a copy of a copy of a mock Tudor big manor house. It's a hundred generations removed from anything original, but the truth is aren't we all?
-- Chuck Palahniuk -
Whatever comes next for this generation, that's going to be the greatest voice.
-- Clancy Brown -
For how many generations now had his people been turning their backs on things? How long had they sat in their living rooms and watched other people die?
-- Clare B. Dunkle -
The poets of each generation seldom sing a new song. They turn to themes men always have loved, and sing them in the mode of their times.
-- Clarence Day -
Despite everything that Harlem did to our generation, I think it gave something to a few. It gave them a strength that couldn't be obtained anywhere else.
-- Claude Brown -
If anything is going to halt necessary investments in next generation networks it will be Congress dictating business models to companies.
-- Claudia Jones -
It is our misfortune, as a historical generation, to live through the largest expansion in expressive capability in human history, a misfortune because abundance breaks more things than scarcity.
-- Clay Shirky -
First, the firearms industry has been around and has been respected for generations. They provide a valuable service and a highly desirable product to millions of sportsmen and supporters of those second amendment rights.
-- Cliff Stearns
