By this means we presume we have established for ever, a true and legitimate marriage between the Empirical and Rational faculty; whose… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Now for good or ill, California is the place where trends tend to be set in Western civilization - if civilization indeed… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Man is an idiot. He doesn't know how to do anything without copying, without imitating, without plagiarizing, without aping. It might even… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was the audience he wanted to reach. Gram Parsons' writing brought his own personal generations poetry and vision into the very… — Emmylou Harris Copy Share Image
I foresee the time when industry shall no longer denude the forests which require generations to mature, nor use up the mines… — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
My generation's apathy. I'm disgusted with it. I'm disgusted with my own apathy too, for being spineless and not always standing up… — Kurt Cobain Copy Share Image
I grew up with that completely fictive idea of motherhood, where the mother never strayed from the kitchen. All the women in… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
VOTE!!! Remember what the suffragists said when they finally won their long hard battle to get us the right to vote, knowing… — Pat Mitchell Copy Share Image
All the best things and treasures of this world are not to be produced by each generation for itself; but we are… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Let it be said to our children's children that when we were tested we refused to let this journey end, that we… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The greater part of our best years has been passed for our generation in these two great worldconvulsions. All will be changed… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
A lot of artists are used to their music being reused online and have come to accept and embrace it. You have… — Girl Talk Copy Share Image
Never forget that we were enslaved in this country longer than we have been free. Never forget that for 250 years black… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
In this rigged, two-party system, third parties almost never win a national election. It's obvious what our function is in this constricted… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
There cannot be any better cross-section of America and I think the soldiers represent the best we have. Today's soldiers are brighter… — Gerald Griffin Copy Share Image
I feel education is more important even now for the younger generation than when I was younger. The kids really need to… — Albert Belle Copy Share Image
If you succumb to the temptation of using violence in the struggle, unborn generations will be the recipients of a long and… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I have three children, and they have never spent a minute unsupervised in their lives. My generation overcompensated like mad. I'm not… — Brett Morgen Copy Share Image
When I first started out, it was very, very difficult to even get in the room with directors or casting directors because… — Kaya Scodelario Copy Share Image
I'm Nancy Pelosi, but my grandchildren call me Mimi. For me, politics is an extension of my role as a mother and… — Nancy Pelosi Copy Share Image
In any conflict area, it is always the women who are the first point of attack. But I think the more they… — Fatima Bhutto Copy Share Image
Especially for people of our generation, who really celebrated certain attitudes - the outsider, the loner - it can have a real… — Adrian Tomine Copy Share Image
Our highly qualified teachers not only work hard, but they care about each and every student that enters their classroom. I thank… — Conrad Burns Copy Share Image
Mr. David Stockman has said that supply-side economics was merely a cover for the trickle-down approach to economic policy—what an older and… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Our most pressing obligation is to do all in our power to obtain a revival that will result in a reformed, revitalized,… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
Yet, there was once a king worthy of that name. That king was Arthur. It is paramount disgrace of this evil generation… — Stephen R. Lawhead Copy Share Image
We're not the Faster-than-the-Speed-of-Light Generation anymore. We're not even the Next-New-Thing Generation. We're the Soon-to-Be-Obsolete Kids, and we've crowded in here to… — Tim Tharp Copy Share Image
Culture is sustained in our synapses...It's more than what can be reduced to binary code and uploaded onto the Net. To remain… — Nicholas G. Carr Copy Share Image
All children need a laptop. Not a computer, but a human laptop. Moms, Dads, Grannies and Grandpas, Aunts, Uncles - someone to… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
Wilderness, to me, is a spiritual necessity. The mysterious spiritual experience of being close to natural restored my soul [after the death… — Clyde Butcher Copy Share Image
Human manners are wildly inconsistent; plenty of people have said so. But this one takes the cake: the manner in which we're… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Elijah Wood confirms his standing as the foremost actor of his generation. ...Wood acts so eloquently with his sentient face and searching… — Jay Carr Copy Share Image
Communism destroyed so many generations. I look at my grandparents and their generation, and it's as if their lives were taken from… — Anton Yelchin Copy Share Image
In order to become a master, you need to emulate. If you're going to be as big as Warhol has become in… — Mike Bidlo Copy Share Image
Everyone is used to speaking a slightly different "language" with their parents than with their peers, because spoken language changes every generation… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
All over the world, particularly in the newer nations, young men are coming to power--men who are not bound by the traditions… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
If I cannot offer some relief to our world, if I cannot inspire our generation to join me, then I feel I… — Masiela Lusha Copy Share Image
Sometimes we can take offense so easily. On other occasions we are too stubborn to accept a sincere apology. Who will subordinate… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
My generation has not seen one single day of peace, and my dream is for my children and the children of all… — Juan Manuel Santos Copy Share Image
I suppose you think that persons who are as old as your father and myself are always thinking about very grave things,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image