Power," Nita heard her father say behind her. "Creation. Forces from before time. This is--this business is for saints, not children!" Even… — Diane Duane Copy Share Image
The World War II generation believed the United States could do anything - anything... And Vietnam was a shattering experience for everyone. — Richard Holbrooke Copy Share Image
The older generation had greater respect for land than science. But we live in an age when science, more than soil, has… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
It [the Holocaust] is something like a religion.... The Intellectual Adventure is that we are reversing this entire trend within the space… — David Irving Copy Share Image
Every few generations there are people who come along that change the way we look at the world, for musical enthusiasts Monk… — John Conyers Copy Share Image
From woman, man is born; within woman, man is conceived; to woman he is engaged and married. Woman becomes his friend; through… — Guru Nanak Copy Share Image
Thus our own age is essentially one of understanding, and on the average, perhaps, more knowledgeable than any former generation, but it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The prayers of God's saints strengthen the unborn generation against the desolating waves of sin and evil. — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
We seek a peaceful world, a prosperous world, a free world, a world of good neighbors, living on terms of equality and… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
To win elections, politicians have promised practically endless government spending and covered up the cost, leaving generations of taxpayers obligated to pay… — David Malpass Copy Share Image
“As she made coffee in the kitchen and tried to spoon the frozen ice-cream from its carton without snapping the shaft off… — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
A man must be sacrificed now and again to provide for the next generation of men. — Amy Lowell Copy Share Image
The women of my mother's generation had, in the main, only one decision to make about their lives: who they would marry.… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I have seen lonely people of advancing age, yet as constant as angels, keeping faith to those they loved who fell in… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
All it takes,” said Crake, “is the elimination of one generation. One generation of anything. Beetles, trees, microbes, scientists, speakers of French,… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Obviously [my daughters] - and Michelle - have made a lot of sacrifices on behalf of my cockamamie ideas, the running for… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
the desire to enforce our own moral and spiritual criteria upon posterity is quite as strong as the desire to enforce them… — Suzanne La Follette Copy Share Image
We will preach the truth to a new generation: The doorway to all freedoms is framed with muskets. It's time the apologists… — Charlton Heston Copy Share Image
Historically, things were moving in a pretty good direction until the Reagan presidency. And then it all got reversed. The Mexico City… — Paul R. Ehrlich Copy Share Image
... the United States, for generations, has sustained two parallel but opposed states of mind about military atrocities and human rights: one… — Robert Parry Copy Share Image
Consider: what could be more American than the principle that every person is to be held accountable for his or her crimes… — Frank Zindler Copy Share Image
Sunsets and death; death and therefore kisses, kisses and consequently birth and then death for yet another generation of sunset watchers. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
To serve thy generation, this thy fate: "Written in water," swiftly fades thy name; But he who loves his kind does, first… — Mary C. Ames Copy Share Image
Each generation has its few great mathematicians, and mathematics would not even notice the absence of the others. They are useful as… — Alfred Adler Copy Share Image
I can predict with absolute certainty that within another generation there will be another world war if the nations of the world… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Some kids get called 'bundles of joy' or 'slices of heaven' or 'dreams come true.' We got 'the fifty-fourth generation of DNA… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
We have lost that which has made us great over the generations, and that is the sense of individual and personal responsibility… — Jon Huntsman, Jr Copy Share Image
A man can pray better because of the prayers of the past; a man can live holier because of the prayers of… — Edward McKendree Bounds Copy Share Image
Our generation, unfortunately, is stuck to our phones - and, like, Twitter - constantly, which I have no problem with. I'd say… — Israel Broussard Copy Share Image
The war...must go on till the last man of this generation falls in his tracks...unless you acknowledge our right to self-government. We… — Jefferson Davis Copy Share Image
Rich People plan for three generations Poor people plan for Saturday night — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Nietzsche inveighs against every sort of historical optimism; but he energetically repudiates the ordinary pessimism, which is the result of degenerate or… — Georg Brandes Copy Share Image
Generations to come will scarce believe that such a one as this walked the earth in flesh and blood. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Conservation means development as much as it does protection. I recognize the right and duty of this generation to develop and use… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Our theme for this year's festivities, Dreams and Challenges of Asian Pacific Americans, speaks to the many generations of Asian Pacific Americans… — Lucille Roybal-Allard Copy Share Image
The thing that's been exciting about 'Superman' is to see how the character has developed through generations. — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
But the most heinous crime of the Church has been perpetrated not against churchmen but against churchgoers. With its poisonous concepts of… — Madalyn Murray O'Hair Copy Share Image
I have always stressed to my girls that outer beauty fades but inner beauty lasts forever. Simple things like smiling and looking… — Tina Knowles Copy Share Image
The notion - and I tell you this one even worries me that it extends into New Urbanism - the notion of… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image