Coming to the Bible through commentaries is much like looking at a landscape through garret windows, over which generations of unmolested spiders… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
I'm tired of the naked, raped, beaten black woman body. I want to see an image of black femaleness that alters our… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
We must convince each generation that they are but transient passengers on this planet earth. It does not belong to them. They… — Bernard Lown Copy Share Image
All the struggles that were fought for here in the United States for African Americans, you now enjoy the privileges of. You… — Danai Gurira Copy Share Image
There are generations of people who have never seen a big plate painting in person. And they don't know what the hell… — Julian Schnabel Copy Share Image
We want democracy to survive for all generations to come, not to become the insolvent phantom of tomorrow. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
Some crafts have been practiced for centuries. These crafts were created using skills passed from generation to generation, and were motivated by… — Amy Sedaris Copy Share Image
It is so important for me to keep authentic Cuban sounds alive. All of these great artists have changed the landscape of… — Gloria Estefan Copy Share Image
I think there are very few people, in my generation at least, that are that passionate about what they do. — Sasha Grey Copy Share Image
Any creative work that is truly alive is influenced by a thousand chance factors in its generation. — Starhawk Copy Share Image
Bribes are the glue that's kept teenagers and parents connected for generations — Gayle Forman Copy Share Image
I think it's going to take three or four generations of gay people being able to get married before it starts feeling… — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
Hey, I'm just trying to become the Michael Caine/Gene Hackman of my generation. — John C. Reilly Copy Share Image
Ah! How I hate the crimes of the new generation: they are dry and sterile as darnel. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Any change in customs ... takes generations to accomplish, and must come about by general consent. Even a superficial study of sociology… — Millicent Fenwick Copy Share Image
Neighborhoods built up all at once change little physically over the years as a rule...[Residents] regret that the neighborhood has changed. Yet… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
My daddy expected that my brothers and I and our generation would make the world a better place. He had lived in… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
I feel like I'm part of a generation of people who are stuck in the past and are really self-absorbed. I mean,… — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
Meditative prayer like that we experienced in the labyrinth resonates with hearts of emerging generations. — Dan Kimball Copy Share Image
I grew up in Skaneateles, a small town in New York's Finger Lakes region, where parts of my family have lived for… — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
(Five) thinkers since Galileo, each informing his successor of what discoveries his own lifetime had seen achieved, might have passed the torch… — William James Copy Share Image
I don't get a sense that Cheers is revered the way it should be by [younger viewers]. In my mind, it's a… — Ted Danson Copy Share Image
Exactness is first obtained, and afterwards elegance. But diction, merely vocal, is always in its childhood. As no man leaves his eloquence… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
We are made of star stuff. For the most part, atoms heavier than hydrogen were created in the interiors of stars and… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
As President, I'll invest in renewable energies like wind power, solar power, and the next generation of homegrown biofuels. That's how America… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
There is a winner in you. You were created to be successful, to accomplish your goals, to leave your mark on this… — Joel Osteen Copy Share Image
Recently in Washington, unfortunately, we have seen examples of the wrong kind of leadership -- when politicians choose scorched earth over common… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Mothers have not always had the most important role in their children's upbringing, when they had other economic roles to play. Inpast… — Sandra Scarr Copy Share Image
Youth no longer inhabit the privileged space, however compromised, that was offered to previous generations. They now occupy a neoliberal notion of… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
And I love the people there. Sergey Brin and Larry Page are cool. But I'm terrified of the next generation that takes… — Jacob Appelbaum Copy Share Image
Electricity generation emits more carbon dioxide in the United States than does transportation or industry, and nuclear power is the largest source… — Ernest Moniz Copy Share Image
We are a part of everything that is beneath us, above us, and around us. Our past is our present, our present… — Winona LaDuke Copy Share Image
A writer ... whittles at the words and phrases of today and makes of them forms to set the mind of tomorrow's generation. — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
There's not any religion or any culture or any race or any generation that cannot get AIDS or HIV. We all have… — Rihanna Copy Share Image
Looking back, if I had to live my life over, there are things I would do differently, but the one thing I… — Ted Turner Copy Share Image
There is a whole generation of women and it was as if their lives came to a stop when they had children.… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
It has always seemed to me a pity that the young people of our generation should grow up with such scant knowledge… — James Loeb Copy Share Image
You know, we're the most undisciplined generation the world has ever knownhow many of you are disciplined? How many go to bed… — Leonard Ravenhill Copy Share Image
It's very strange that most people don't care if their knowledge of their family history only goes back three generations. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I don't expect my flight to produce a generation of astronauts and cosmonauts back home, but I hope it will encourage people… — Mark Shuttleworth Copy Share Image