From the time I read my first Hemingway work, The Sun Also Rises, as a student at Soldan High School in St.… — A. E. Hotchner Copy Share Image
The modern individual is committed to being successful, not to being a person. He belongs rightly to the 'action generation' whose motto… — Alexander Lowen Copy Share Image
Odd how often blood is shed to obtain freedom from those in power. Oppressors must be the most insecure people in the… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
There are an awful lot of things going on that need understanding and explanation, but - to put it mildly - the… — Madeleine Albright Copy Share Image
I'm a third-generation American, so I like that American-looking, Northwestern style with a flannel or jean shirt. — Cody Horn Copy Share Image
I think that I was just on the cusp of the generation that was beginning to really challenge some of the assumptions… — Claire McCaskill Copy Share Image
The interesting thing about the Beatles was: The music was one thing, but we kind of symbolized a certain kind of freedom… — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
There is the expectation that a younger generation has the opportunity to redeem the crimes and failings of their elders and would… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I did go to Vietnam in 2000 as a kind of pilgrimage and to feel my generation was very much a part… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
If you throw the baby away, that's garbage. But no, the heart's precious. You could get something, you could save a life.… — Greg Gutfeld Copy Share Image
Two [Massachusetts coal burning power plants] remain: Brayton Point in the South Coast region and Mt. Tom, just down the road. Within… — Deval Patrick Copy Share Image
The twentieth century will be chiefly remembered by future generations not as an era of political conflicts or technical inventions, but as… — Arnold J. Toynbee Copy Share Image
If the United States haven't grown poets, on any scale of grandeur, it is certain that they import, print, and read more… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
I'm the granddaughter of a factory worker from Scranton, Pennsylvania. He went to work in the same lace mill every day for… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Governor Sanders showed true leadership and character by supporting civil rights for all during a time when many were not, His lasting… — Nathan Deal Copy Share Image
I've seen definitive change in the mountains. I have concerns for the future generation. We inherit the earth from the people in… — Jeremy Jones Copy Share Image
Now there are heavy houses everywhere and more of them are being built. In fact, it is only when more houses are… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Martin Luther King challenged the conscience of my generation, and his words and his legacy continue to move generations to action today… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
Mankind, transmitting from generation to generation the legacy of accumulated vengeances, and pursuing with the feelings of duty the misery of their… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
One of our most important tasks will be to save future generations from a similar political fate and to maintain for ever… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
To square the records, however, it should be said that if the Calvinist does not rise as high, he usually stays up… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The foundation of morality on the human sentiments of what is acceptable behavior versus repulsive behavior has always made morals susceptible to… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
So long as the man with ambition is a failure, the world will tell him to let go of his ideal; but… — Christian D. Larson Copy Share Image
They say that each generation inherits from those that have gone before; if this were so there would be no limit to… — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
A whole generation of Americans will retire in poverty instead of prosperity, because they simply are not preparing for retirement now. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We have been lead as the hip hop generation. We have been once again lead by people who are under qualified. It's… — MC Hammer Copy Share Image
It is a wise provision that youth cannot see what it owes the previous generation. This is a chicken that comes back… — Miles Franklin Copy Share Image
what man calls civilizationalways results in desertsman is never on the squarehe uses up the fat and greenery of the eartheach generation… — Don Marquis Copy Share Image
I feel like I've been very fortunate in that I've stuck like a burr to the dog-leg of the next generation of… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
Sex criminals. Completely incurable... I suppose you could outlaw religion and these sex crimes would disappear in a generation or two, but… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Man is fatally slow on the uptake; it always takes him until the next generation to understand what's going on. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec Copy Share Image
In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
The world is no longer closed to us in the way it was in the past - present generations have unparalleled access… — Edgar Guest Copy Share Image
A half-century after racing the Russians to the moon, the U.S. is barely suiting up in the international race to secure interests… — Rick Larsen Copy Share Image
My whole family is spiritual. My grandmother, grand aunt, cousins, they're all preachers and pastors. Spirituality is a part of my family,… — Ziggy Marley Copy Share Image
There are three things to leave behind; your photographs, your library, and your personal journals. These things are certainly going to be… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
We don't have to be that greedy generation that just continued to take down the underpinnings of what makes the planet work… — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
I have absolutely no idea what my generation did to enrich our democracy. We dropped the ball. We entered a period of… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
We need to send a message to Congress and the president that we want them to take the actions that are needed… — James Hansen Copy Share Image
People are hungry for stories. It's part of our very being. Storytelling is a form of history, of immortality too. It goes… — Studs Terkel Copy Share Image