Folklore used to be passed by word of mouth, from one generation to the next; that's what makes it folklore, as opposed… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
“The beat generation is a coffeehouse full of people expectantly looking at their watches waiting for the beat generation to come on. *1958” — Mort Sahl Copy Share Image
Our work is before us. It cannot be passed to future legislatures and must not be passed to future generations. May we… — Rick Perry Copy Share Image
Can we somehow muster the courage and steadfastness of purpose that characterized the pioneers of a former generation? Can you and I,… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
That's really why I wanted to do it. I wanted to be a part of this generation's telling of Camelot, and also… — Tamsin Egerton Copy Share Image
I'm an old school guy and love the guys in the monster suits and JAWS; even though everyone makes fun of the… — Larry Fessenden Copy Share Image
My generation of young female writers discovered that we could dictate the form and content of our own fiction. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
What could be more important than equipping the next generation with the character and competence they need to become successful — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
The Beat Generation, that was a vision that we had, John Clellon Holmes and I, and Allen Ginsberg in an even wilder… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
I think the hymns give us a glimpse of the generations before us, and what was important to them at the time.… — Bart Millard Copy Share Image
I've come to believe that God, in His wisdom, allows martyrdom in every generation in part because, without them, the reality of… — Mark Galli Copy Share Image
It is essential to collectively struggle to recover our status as Daughters of the Earth. In that is our strength, and the… — Winona LaDuke Copy Share Image
We need to preserve these sacred locations for ourselves, for the species of plants and animals that coexist in harmony there, and… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I have never had a president who inspired me the way people tell me that my father inspired them. But for the… — Caroline Kennedy Copy Share Image
Many male habitues of massage parlors, like Talese, did not like solitary masturbation; in the parlance of the younger generation, it was… — Gay Talese Copy Share Image
Think about all of the families where the father is a doctor and the son is a doctor or generations of coal… — Rosanne Cash Copy Share Image
It is important to always look back and see what we have done and what we have failed to do in our… — Ericson Baculinao Copy Share Image
Everybody aspires to an affordable home, a secure job, better living standards, reliable healthcare and a decent pension. My generation took those… — Jeremy Corbyn Copy Share Image
I grew up with video games. My generation kind of grew up with the Nintendo and the Sega Genesis. Then, I had… — CC Sabathia Copy Share Image
It's always been the children who have saved the universe from the previous generation and remade the universe in their own image. — Diane Duane Copy Share Image
...today it is the duty of every thinking being to live, and to serve not only his own day and generation, but… — Richard St. Barbe Baker Copy Share Image
New gene pools are generated in every generation, and evolution takes place because the successful individuals produced by these gene pools give… — Ernst Mayr Copy Share Image
Trance had become a dirty word. Thanks to Ian Van Dahl, Lasgo, Flip 'N' Fill and DJ Sammy, a generation of kids… — Paul van Dyk 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
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
I think the American people lose a large part of the joy of life because they do not live for generations in… — Douglas Southall Freeman Copy Share Image
The Olympic Games are not just ordinary world championships but a quadrennial festival of universal youth. . . celebrated by each succeeding… — Pierre de Coubertin Copy Share Image
What's really important for me is, as an old man, I'm known by my own generation and the next generation know me,… — Christopher Lee Copy Share Image
I have a catch-phrase to describe my plot-generation technique -- 'What's the worst possible thing I can do to these people?' — Lois McMaster Bujold Copy Share Image
For a generation, terrorists learned they could make war on free nations without fear of war in return. On September 12, the… — Ken Mehlman Copy Share Image
Even if Bill McKibben were to become dictator, future generations would suffer because of the carbon we had already emitted. — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
TRIGGER CITY secures Sean Chercover's place as one of the best crime writers of his generation. It grabs you hard on the… — Tasha Alexander Copy Share Image
Most modern biologists, having reviewed with satisfaction the downfall of the spontaneous generation hypothesis, yet unwilling to accept the alternative belief in… — George Wald Copy Share Image
I don't think for this generation, but for my generation and my father's generation, men had difficulty in accessing emotion and then… — Liam Neeson Copy Share Image
We must recognize that beneath the superficial classifications of sex and race the same potentialities exist, recurring generation after generation, only to… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
I guess there was some Casper guy, like, 10 generations ago who I'm named after. I'm the 11th. My son is Casper… — Casper Van Dien Copy Share Image
We have an obligation to make things beautiful. Not to leave the world uglier than we found it, not to empty the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I do not want to believe in God. Therefore I choose to believe in that which I know is scientifically impossible, spontaneous… — George Wald Copy Share Image
Future generations will know there's nothing mystical about wetware because by 2100, Moore's law will have given us tiny quantum computers powerful… — Frank Tipler Copy Share Image
I'm really looking forward to a time when generations after us look back and say how ridiculous it was that humans were… — Sebastian Thrun Copy Share Image