Thou wast not born for death, immortal bird! No hungry generations tread thee down; The voice I hear this passing night was… — John Keats Copy Share Image
A few years make such havoc in human generations that we soon see ourselves deprived of those with whom we entered the… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
By all means write new songs. Each generation must do that. But to neglect the church's original hymnbook is, to put it… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
Give me one hundred men who love only God with all their heart and hate only sin with all their heart and… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The moon of Mahomet Arose, and it shall set; While, blazoned as on heaven's immortal noon, The cross leads generations on. — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
I have lived through the best years of this country's history. The next generations are going to see war and social calamities.… — William Graham Sumner Copy Share Image
I've always been open about who I am and my sexuality. So, it wasn't hard at all. If I can show that… — Brittney Griner Copy Share Image
I begin to feel like I was in the last generation of Americans who took a civics class. I begin to feel… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Harriet Levin [is] a shining poet in her generation… The dynamics of her language and her vigorous voice distinguish all her poems.… — Molly Peacock Copy Share Image
Cultural legacies are powerful forces. They have deep roots and long lives. They persist, generation after generation, virtually intact, even as the… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
I could not fight the Nazis in the present, as they had the power to still my voice, so I decided to… — Friedrich Kellner Copy Share Image
In colonial America, the father was the primary parent. . . . Over the past two hundred years, each generation of fathers… — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
You grow a whole lot more as a writer by getting old stories out of the house and letting new ones come… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Barney Kessel was 'Mr. Guitar,' the foremost jazz guitarist of his generation. He had an amazing imagination, his solos were incredible, he… — Larry Coryell Copy Share Image
The radical is simply being given more room in the mainstream. And I think young people - I'm talking about the very… — Porochista Khakpour Copy Share Image
The age in which we live, this non-stop distraction, is making it more impossible for the young generation to ever have the… — Vivienne Westwood Copy Share Image
This is all very nice, because the ideas that Jack and the Beat generation stood for are needed today more than ever.… — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share Image
Adolescents are the bearers of cultural renewal, those cycles of generation and regeneration that link our limited individual destinies with the destiny… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
According to the Small Business Administration, more than 70 percent of all family businesses do not survive through the second generation, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Don't spend your time examining some else personality because that moment can be better spent examining yourself and analysing whether you're closer… — Emanuel Sebastiao Copy Share Image
“The younger generations look at the beliefs of their parents and simply say “Pffft”. History judges us all in the end.” — Peter B. Lockhart Copy Share Image
We carry the dead with us only until we die too, and then it is we who are borne along for a… — John Banville Copy Share Image
Very often we support change, and then are swept away by the change. I think that...you just make your own response to… — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
Every generation reinvents the wheel - and in the process it often adds to rather than subtracts from a woman's burdens. — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Copy Share Image
George Orwell said, "Whoever controls the past controls the future," by which he meant that history is incredibly important in shaping the… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Among the map makers of each generation are the risk takers, those who see the opportunities, seize the moment and expand man's… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
From a generation that came of age during the Great Depression, millions of our country's best and bravest took up arms in… — Steve Buyer Copy Share Image
Every pulse of your heartbeat is one liquid moment that flows through the veins of your being. Like a river of life… — Don McLean Copy Share Image
It is my firm belief that I have a link with the past and a responsibility to the future. I cannot give… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There's not any religion or any culture or any race or any generation that cannot get AIDS or HIV. We all have… — Rihanna Copy Share Image
It's not so weird that four generations are living together under the same roof and trying to make it work. It's how… — Martha Plimpton Copy Share Image
Survival, in the cool economics of biology, means simply the persistence of one's own genes in the generations to follow. — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
I'm a first-generation American, so I had friends from several cultures while growing up, including Indian and Iranian friends. — Michael Steger Copy Share Image
The chain of life runs smoothly from one generation to the next and none of the links stand out except here and… — Clifford D. Simak Copy Share Image
I received a beautiful welcome to the world of music. I want to give something back to the younger generation. — Luciano Pavarotti Copy Share Image
Every old man complains of the growing depravity of the world, of the petulance and insolence of the rising generation. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
There's a new television generation coming in every five or 10 years, and the classic stories stand up to being redone. — Rebecca Eaton Copy Share Image
The greatest significance of the present student generation is that it is through them that the point of view of the subjugated… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
A whole generation of writers dined out on the dialectic between original cultures and their culture by "progress. — Anatole Broyard Copy Share Image