You are young. No hungry generations tread you down. The past does not mock you with the ruins of a beauty the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
For all its material advantages, the sedentary life has left us edgy, unfulfilled, even after 400 generations in villages and cities, we… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
I've always written. I'm from an older generation of programmers [who] did not come out of engineering. [A]ll sorts of people were… — Ellen Ullman Copy Share Image
It is in that spirit, the spirit of '76, that I ask you to rise and join me in a toast to… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
What is education? Properly speaking, there is no such thing as education. Education is simply the soul of a society as it… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
My hair would continue to gray, and then one day, it would fall out entirely, and then, on a day meaninglessly close… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
The visible universe is subject to quantification, and is so by necessity. … Between you and me only reason will be the… — Adelard of Bath Copy Share Image
I always think about the next generation and creating a different blueprint for them. That's my goal: to let them know there's… — Janelle Monae Copy Share Image
Now let's make two things clear: ISIL is not 'Islamic.' No religion condones the killing of innocents, and the vast majority of… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Literature, properly so called, draws its sap from the deep soil of human nature's common and everlasting sympathies, the gathered leaf-mound of… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Born Virginia Marshall but nicknamed Gig, my mother was a home economics teacher who had come all the way across the whole… — Lee Smith Copy Share Image
Those of us who have the duty of training the rising generation of doctors...must not inseminate the virgin minds of the young… — Sir Robert Hutchison, 1st Baronet Copy Share Image
Anyone who is passionate about what they do will have a better chance of connecting with future generations than those who simply… — Giorgio Armani Copy Share Image
I gotta tell you, I do not envy whoever they try to put in David Letterman's chair. Folks those are some huge… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
Aspiring black leaders are often asked to transcend race, even though no one ever asked, say, Hillary Clinton to transcend gender. This… — Gwen Ifill Copy Share Image
Ultimately, peace is just not about politics. It's about attitudes; about a sense of empathy; about breaking down the divisions that we… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Democracy is always an unfinished experiment, testing the capacity of each generation to live freedom nobly. — George Weigel Copy Share Image
To the extent that sacrifices need to be made, shouldn't the people who've made out like bandits this past generation be first… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
Generation after generation can't just be loaded with more and more nuclear weapons and not ultimately dance to that music. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
I'm first generation American, and my parents were both from Nigeria. And so I always say that I'm literally an African American.… — Terry Gross Copy Share Image
I think it jumps generations. You get a screwball in one, and then the next one is straight, then you get a… — Grace Slick 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 was supposed to be a real Thatcherite. Just by dint of being a first-generation immigrant and having not had money, and… — George Michael Copy Share Image
Im a ridiculous sci-fi fan. In fact, I admit it freely; my manager is horrified. I just recently bought seasons two through… — Emma Caulfield Copy Share Image
We shall all consider ourselves unauthorized to saddle posterity with our debts, and morally bound to pay them ourselves; and consequently within… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
