Generations Quotes · Page 186

I was in just the right generation to have taken feminism seriously by osmosis - also the generation when the breakdown of…

— Quentin S. Crisp

My generation was secretive, brooding, ambitious, show-offy, and this generation is congenial. Totally. I imagine them walking around with GPS chips that…

— Garrison Keillor

Chechens are not ethnically or culturally Russian, and have now been fighting for generations to free themselves from Russian rule.

— Stephen Kinzer

For an economy built to last we must invest in what will fuel us for generations to come. This is our history…

— Cory Booker

“All that history, the love & laughter, is designed for youth. It is what keeps the story of who we are alive…

— Elsie Love E. B. Loan

My work is as an ethnographic rescuer: a conduit between past and future generations. The urgency of this effort cannot be overstated.

— Elizabeth Kapu'uwailani Lindsey

The mind of a generation is its speech. A writer makes aspects of that speech enduring by putting them in print. He…

— John Dos Passos

No one seriously doubts that if Piraha children are brought up in Boston they'll be speaking Boston English, that is, that the…

— Noam Chomsky

[Attributing the origin of life to spontaneous generation.] However improbable we regard this event, it will almost certainly happen at least once....…

— George Wald

The young very seldom lead anything in our country today. It's been quite some time since a younger generation pushed an older…

— Wynton Marsalis

You know how it always is, every new idea, it takes a generation or two until it becomes obvious that there's no…

— Richard P. Feynman

I would love to expose multiple younger generations to Frank's music. It's not an easy task because It's not ever going to…

— Dweezil Zappa

When school district officials literally laughed at the notion that the Me Generation — this was the label for my generation —…

— Wendy Kopp

My first understanding of HIV and AIDS was like everybody else from my generation. In the mid-'80s, we heard about this, and…

— Annie Lennox

The stumbling way in which even the ablest of the scientists in every generation have had to fight through thickets of erroneous…

— James Bryant Conant

Brands' use of social media is not a matter of yes or no. It is simply a matter of how and when.…

— Martin Lindstrom

David Petraeus, the best known American general of his generation. After commanding the American war effort in both Iraq and Afghanistan, he…

— Rachel Maddow

The fact is that ours is the first generation that can look disease and extreme poverty in the eye, look across the…

— Bono

I know specifically me being somebody who has had most of my experiences within the black church, that's cultural... you gotta put…

— LeCrae

As a Green, my goal is to put a smile on the face of the coming generations.

— Bob Brown

We all accuse Vladimir Putin of Cold War nostalgia, but Washington's elites - politicians and intellectuals - miss the old days as…

— Fareed Zakaria

Many questions remain in the UFO controversy. Scientists ask how interstellar pilots could survive a trip of hundreds of years while cutting-edge…

— Jim Marrs

If from one burning lamp someone lights another, then another from that one, and so on in succession, he has light continuously.…

— Gregory Palamas

One hundred years ago, visionary political leaders from the Progressive Era established a system of national forests and parks in our country…

— Eban Goodstein

My ultimate goal is for that next generation coming up, who didn't see me play, go, 'Oh, he used to play football?'

— Michael Strahan