Ancient and oriental civilizations were more sensitive than we are to the cycles of things; to the succession of generations, both divine… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
Consider: what could be more American than the principle that every person is to be held accountable for his or her crimes… — Frank Zindler Copy Share Image
Yet if there's no reason to live without a child, how could there be with one? To answer one life with a… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
Through the art of personal development, we see an opportunity for these animals to inspire compassion, essentially creating a path to deep… — Ian Somerhalder Copy Share Image
Those who stand for different causes during different generations often experience the same oppositions and the same difficulties as those of the… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Well, I didn't feel that I could do justice to this story of my parents and their generation, and all that they… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
I realized that all you have to do is state what you need and figure out how to get it, and be… — Jeanine Tesori Copy Share Image
I go back five generations in Jamaica. My dad grew up in Port Royal, and my mom grew up in Kingston. My… — Dule Hill Copy Share Image
Mrs. Parks' act of brave defiance rocked the foundation of American society and inspired generations of civil rights leaders and created a… — Kendrick Meek Copy Share Image
The great vice of democracy is that for a generation we have been busy getting ourselves on to the list of beneficiaries… — Robert Menzies Copy Share Image
If you ask a Saudi Imam why women in Saudi Arabia can't drive, he'll say, 'Because Islam demands it.' But that's absurd,… — Reza Aslan Copy Share Image
I wouldn't say that processed food, ready meals and even takeaways aren't relevant to modern life, it's just that over the past… — Jamie Oliver Copy Share Image
Any change in customs ... takes generations to accomplish, and must come about by general consent. Even a superficial study of sociology… — Millicent Fenwick Copy Share Image
There's a whole generation growing up thinking you shouldn't seek knowledge for its own sake, and that theatre and art and books… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I'm sixty-eight years old. What I do now will be read by unborn generations for hundreds, perhaps thousands, of years. For me,… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
And now that the Greatest Generation is getting older, I think it is the responsibility of all Americans to make sure we… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
That is the future, and it is probably nearer than we think. But our primary problem as universities is not engineering that… — Vartan Gregorian Copy Share Image
I am certain things to certain generations. Lots of people remember me from the 'Comic Strip,' there was the 'Vindaloo' song for… — Keith Allen Copy Share Image
George Bush is by American standards rabidly Upper Class - Eastern, Socially Attractive, WASP, 19th-century money, several generations of Andover and Yale… — Peter York Copy Share Image
Every generation wants to be the last. Every generation hates the next trend in music they can't understand. We hate to give… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Seeing how many people in our world today are focused on doing good in this world for others, especially in the younger… — Agapi Stassinopoulos Copy Share Image
I am not at all sure we could ever reach a peace agreement with the Palestinians' present leadership. We shall have to… — Shaul Mofaz Copy Share Image
The present generation finds itself the heir of a vast patrimony of science; and it must needs concern us to know the… — William Whewell Copy Share Image
The Senate needs to leave enough money in the proposed budget to not only reduce all marginal rates, but to eliminate the… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Men develop ideas and systems of explanation by absorbing past knowledge and critiquing and superseding it. Women, ignorant of their own history… — Gerda Lerner Copy Share Image
Just as Hanukkah candles are lighted one by one from a single flame, so the tale of the miracle is passed from… — Judah Leon Magnes Copy Share Image
"And they lived happily ever after" is one of the most tragic sentences in literature. It's tragic because it's falsehood. It is… — Joshua L. Liebman Copy Share Image
To some extent, this urge to break out of the ordinary is present in every generation. Part of being young is desiring… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
We believe democracy to be the only real guarantor of stability and we have sought to create a 'Jordanian model' that might… — King Hussein I Copy Share Image
There's a strong victim mentality in my generation. I think it's spiritual laziness. They will agree that God is sovereign over all,… — Matt Chandler Copy Share Image
Standing by the crib of one's own baby, with that world - old pang of compassion and protectiveness toward this so little… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
Schulz told lies in German, and it's unfortunate someone can speak German in this house, but it is our responsibility to stand… — Uri Orbach Copy Share Image
But here's what I would tell people of my generation. I turn 40 this year. There isn't going to be a Social… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
Today's gardens have become far more than things of beauty. And today's generation is fast finding out that backyards can be an… — Jamie Durie Copy Share Image
It's a very special generation, because during our careers the computer entered chess. So we know how to play without computers, which… — Vassily Ivanchuk Copy Share Image
We can't negotiate the facts. We can't negotiate the truth about the situation. And for those who are too fearful to finish,… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
Laws just or unjust may govern men's actions. Tyrannies may restrain or regulate their words. The machinery of propaganda may pack their… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Our theme for this year's festivities, Dreams and Challenges of Asian Pacific Americans, speaks to the many generations of Asian Pacific Americans… — Lucille Roybal-Allard Copy Share Image
Then I celebrated my Wall of Books. I counted the volumes on my twenty-foot-long modernist bookshelf to make sure none had been… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
The world isn't kept running because it's a paying proposition. (God doesn't make a cent on the deal.) The world goes on… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image