The national park idea has been nurtured by each succeeding generation of Americans. Today, across our land, the National Park System represents… — George B. Hartzog Jr Copy Share Image
It is said that what is called "the spirit of an age" is something to which one cannot return. That this spirit… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Every new mother wonders, 'what will I pass on to my child'? Hunger is one inheritance no mother wants to give her… — Rachel Weisz Copy Share Image
The fact that previous generations have handed down to us a substantial public heritage by way of roads, port, etc. almost completely… — John James Cowperthwaite Copy Share Image
Modern American literature was born in protest, born in rebellion, born out of the sense of loss and indirection which was imposed… — Alfred Kazin Copy Share Image
Human nature will not flourish, any more than a potato, if it be planted and replanted, for too long a series of… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
There should be a sympathy with freedom, a desire to give it scope, founded not upon visionary ideas, but upon the long… — William E. Gladstone Copy Share Image
I'm restless. My whole generation is restless. I'm sick of a system where the richest man gets the most beautiful girl if… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Before (the Palestinians) very eyes we are possessing the land and the villages where they and their ancestors have lived We are… — Moshe Dayan Copy Share Image
Who in the world remembers who won the 1975 Westchester Classic or the 1978 Western Open? Basically, the majors are the only… — Jack Nicklaus Copy Share Image
When I contemplate the immense advances in science and discoveries in the arts which have been made within the period of my… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
What's exciting to me now is the idea in participating in a landscape of moviemaking that's completely different - the way you… — Alden Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Boris Vasilievich was the only top-class player of his generation who played gambits regularly and without fear ... Over a period of… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
You've got to have an ego as big as Mars to want to think that you, of all people, are better than… — Jello Biafra Copy Share Image
An ideal is an unselfish aspiration. Its purpose is the general welfare not only of this but of future generations. It is… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
Our rising generation is worthy of our best efforts to support and strengthen them in their journey to adulthood. … In every… — Ronald A. Rasband Copy Share Image
If the untimely battlefield deaths of generations of American heroes have taught us nothing else, it should be this unalterable fact: what… — Michael Mullen Copy Share Image
For educated Americans like Joseph Ellis, Vietnam is a special hang-up. I am an Englishman of exactly the Vietnam generation, a couple… — Geoffrey Wheatcroft Copy Share Image
As we get older it is our short term memory that fades rather than our long term memory. Perhaps we have evolved… — Philippa Perry Copy Share Image
It was in Spain that [my generation] learned that one can be right and yet be beaten, that force can vanquish spirit,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
In my father's time - he was in college during many transitions in the late 1930s - they had great institutional loyalties...… — Whit Stillman Copy Share Image
Being president means leaving one's name in the history book of which few men are authors. It is my fortune to be… — Grover Cleveland Copy Share Image
There are two books that I often travel with; one is 'The Theory on Moral Sentiments' by Adam Smith. The other is… — Wen Jiabao Copy Share Image
All words have the "taste" of a profession, a genre, a tendency, a party, a particular work, a particular person, a generation,… — Mikhail Bakhtin Copy Share Image
Two of the greatest hungers in our world today are the hunger for spirituality and the hunger for social change. The connection… — Jim Wallis Copy Share Image
I wonder whether any other generation has seen such astounding revolutions of data and values as those through which we have lived.… — Winston Churchill 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
War is not the quintessential emergency in which man has to prove himself, as my generation learned at its school desks in… — Gustav Heinemann Copy Share Image
What a mystery blood was -- how did a tiny gesture, a tome of voice, endure through generations like the harder verities… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
The fact that you can take LEGO bricks from thirty years ago and they still snap together with the same new LEGO… — Nathan Sawaya 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
When I began to read as an adult, I read almost exclusively novelists of a generation back. I did the Russians, then… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
You may well ask why I write. And yet my reasons are quite many. For it is not unusual in human beings… — Ford Madox Ford Copy Share Image
Everything I’ve ever gotten in life is largely due to the fact that I was born in this country, America, at this… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
Barack Obama's daughters are very smart. They told him they will take the same responsibility for the dog that he is taking… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
Each generation of rabbis is necessarily less perfect than the rabbis that came before, since each generation is more removed from the… — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
On my US tour maybe three out of 30 shows there was an Elvis impersonator in the crowd but that's it. I… — Lisa Marie Presley Copy Share Image
What generations created, the Left destroys. There are few productive and noble institutions in America that the Left has not hurt or… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
Older generations can sometimes look down on today's hip hop but I refuse that mindset. I remember how hurt I was when… — Erik Parker Copy Share Image
We've always had a tradition in America of hounding our artists to death. Look at the list of our great artists, you… — James Dickey Copy Share Image