I have a lot of heroes. I don't think people give enough of a tribute to their mentors. They try to act… — John Leguizamo Copy Share Image
Today we have a weakness in our education process in failing to understand the natural associations between the disciplines. We tend to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In the fifth season [of Star Trek: The Next Generation] viewers will see more of shipboard life [including] gay crew members in… — Gene Roddenberry Copy Share Image
History is fond of her grandchildren, for it offers them the marrow of the bones, which the previous generation had hurt its… — Nikolay Chernyshevsky Copy Share Image
Born in a generation that thinks cynical and disenchanted is cool, sometimes I'm a little off the beaten track. — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
When my generation was your age, we took crazy risks. The wildest thing was - prepare to be shocked - we deliberately… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Knowing who you are is good for one generation only. You haven't the foggiest idea where you stand now or who you… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
A man must always live by his work, and his wages must at least be sufficient to maintain him. They must even… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Books should be cherished, like children, books are for the next generation, like children, like history. — Edna Ferber Copy Share Image
Adults who enter into public life implicitly consent to having less privacy, but their families - especially their children - should not… — Melissa Harris-Perry Copy Share Image
NY is the city it is today in part because of the contributions from generations of artistic visionaries — Bill de Blasio Copy Share Image
Pride and power fall when the person falls, but discoveries of truth form legacies that can be built upon for generations. — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Ending AIDS is an opportunity for this generation. We should not miss this opportunity — Michel Sidibe Copy Share Image
For the survivor who chooses to testify, it is clear: his duty is to bear witness for the dead and for the… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
When I began to read as an adult, my first big enthusiasm was Evelyn Waugh. I read almost exclusively novelists of a… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
We paid for this instead of a generation of health insurance, or an alternative energy grid, or a brand-new system of roads… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
The mother's first kiss teaches the child love; the first holy kiss of the woman he loves teaches man hope and faith… — Giuseppe Mazzini Copy Share Image
When it comes to lead referral generation, the customer experience is it. — John Jantsch 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
The more we idealize the past and refuse to acknowledge our childhood sufferings, the more we pass them on unconsciously to the… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
Every work of science great enough to be well remembered for a few generations affords some exemplification of the defective state of… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
Every generation of children offers mankind the possibility of rebuilding his ruin of a world. — Eglantyne Jebb Copy Share Image
From Dickens's cockneys to Salinger's phonies, from Kerouac's beatniks to Cheech and Chong's freaks, and on to hip hop's homies, dialect has… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
Even a cursory reading of the book of Ecclesiastes shows that culture is a stationary bike that each generation climbs on in… — Mark Driscoll Copy Share Image
The journey through another world, beyond bad dreams beyond the memories of a murdered generation, cartographed in captivity by bare survivors makes… — Elizabeth Cook-Lynn Copy Share Image
A new scientific truth is usually not propagated in such a way that opponents become convinced and discard their previous views. No,… — Max Planck Copy Share Image
We owe it to ourselves and to the next generation to conserve the environment so that we can bequeath our children a… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
When you kill somebody's little sister with a missile, he's going to hate you forever. And the next generation will hate you… — Tom Petty Copy Share Image
When the scope of the problem seems insuperable, isn't it time to call this one, give it up, and get on with… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
With the continued support of citizens who refuse to accept inaction at the expense of future generations, we will lead the world… — Diana DeGette 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
If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
California is now a valuable touchstone to the country, a warning of what not to do. Rarely has a single generation inherited… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
In Sweden, I went to an English school, where there was a mishmash of people from all over the world. Some were… — Joel Kinnaman Copy Share Image
It's now time for me to pass Star Wars on to a new generation of filmmakers. I've always believed that Star Wars… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
Not only are we harried by time, we seem unable, despite a thousand generations, even to get used to it. We are… — Sheldon Vanauken Copy Share Image
Upon the publication of Goethe's epic drama, the Faustian legend had reached an almost unapproachable zenith. Although many failed to appreciate, or… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I love dancing in general and making girls dance. My generation doesn't do it enough. — Jean Dujardin Copy Share Image
When I look in the mirror, I sometimes think I'm getting old, but then I have two generations behind me so that… — Stephanie Beacham Copy Share Image