The sequoias belong to the silences of the milleniums. Many of them have seen a hundred human generations rise, give off their… — Edwin Markham 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
If any generation of men ever possessed the right of dictating the mode by which the world should be governed for ever,… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
More than any other nation on Earth, America has constantly drawn strength and spirit from wave after wave of immigrants. In each… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
I do think it's fascinating to see a play where everybody's sort of, in various ways, uprooted, and you see the older… — Stephen Karam Copy Share Image
Capitalism is essentially a system of mass production for the satisfaction of the needs of the masses. It pours a horn of… — Ludwig von Mises 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
We need to be strong in order to avoid war; and to win. A politician looks forward only to the next election.… — Winston Churchill 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
“27. So often, we go through our battles in private. As it was with me and with many of the women in… — psyche roxas-mendoza Copy Share Image
I think I've been able to witness Canadian hip-hop get a lot more respect from our own people. I think some of… — JD Era Copy Share Image
Gay marriage will be universally accepted in time. But if I may be so bold as to say to gays and lesbians,… — John Ridley Copy Share Image
A new era has dawned in Ontario; one where the air will be cleaner and the multiple costs of coal-fired generation have… — Bob Chiarelli Copy Share Image
We are raising a generation of young Americans who are, to a very large degree, historically illiterate. It's not their faults. There's… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
Official motto of the White House economic team: Those who can, do. Those who can't, fantasize in the classroom, fail in Washington… — Michelle Malkin Copy Share Image
The enclosure of the biological and intellectual commons in this way is a real threat to the future of people everywhere because… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
I am really touched and surprised that your generation [of millenials] feels that way, and I'm really happy the work stands up.… — Marisa Tomei Copy Share Image
Everyone always tells you that you're the only one that can do this or that role right, and if you say no,… — Christian Bale Copy Share Image
We're a me-me-me generation. We're borrowing the savings of every nation in the world. We're ... piling up a big tab. Now,… — Paul Samuelson Copy Share Image
If Tao Lin had been born to Gary Shteyngart's parents and spent his early twenties slaving for pageviews at NewYorker.com, he would… — Gideon Lewis-Kraus Copy Share Image