Education can counteract the natural tendency to do the wrong thing, but the inexorable succession of generations requires that the basis for… — Garrett Hardin Copy Share Image
There are definite vocal trends for every generation as well as accents and I'm not talking about regionalisms. — Erica Schroeder Copy Share Image
For us, terrorism remains the great evil of our time, and the war against this evil, our generation’s great cause … There… — Richard Perle Copy Share Image
To the highest leadership among women it is given to hold steadily in one hand the sacred vessels that hold the ancient… — Anna Garlin Spencer Copy Share Image
Where else? I belong to a lost generation and am comfortable only in the company of others who are lost and lonely. — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
It is my conviction that your generation is better and stronger than was ours... better in many ways! I have the faith… — Boyd K. Packer Copy Share Image
The best novelist of my generation is an Italian living in Paris, still working and improving - Italo Calvino. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
In its revolt against congestion and sordor, a space-hungry generation has, I fear, developed eyes that are bigger than its stomach. — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
For all its material advantages, the sedentary life has left us edgy, unfulfilled, even after 400 generations in villages and cities, we… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
A lot is said, by foreigners and the left, about America being a violent society. Yet if you subtract the crime statistics… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
For electric power generation, we are very optimistic about solar-thermal technology, and we’re intrigued by the potential of enhanced geothermal energy to… — Vinod Khosla Copy Share Image
Ten years have now passed since many of us first felt the jolt of history-when the second plane crashed into the South… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Millennials are more aware of society's many challenges than previous generations and less willing to accept maximizing shareholder value as a sufficient… — Michael Porter Copy Share Image
Having gone through the civil rights struggle, having gone through the anti-Vietnam War struggle, by the time I was in my 20s,… — Paul Solman Copy Share Image
In the best of times, our days are numbered anyway. So it would be a crime against nature for any generation to… — Alistair Cooke Copy Share Image
Now there have been delivered to us in the Gospel three Persons and names through whom the generation or birth of believers… — Gregory of Nyssa Copy Share Image
I tell my students, with a feeling of pride that I hope they will share, that the carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen that… — George Wald Copy Share Image
If the life-supporting ecosystems of the planet are to survive for future generations, the consumer society will have to dramatically curtail its… — Alan Thein Durning Copy Share Image
We continually make decisions in private which affect the commonweal, as the ecologists (to take but one example) have shown us. When… — Parker J. Palmer Copy Share Image
We measure our presence in generations; we cannot dig down ten thousand years and find our bones. Our arrival is scribed upon… — Kent Nerburn Copy Share Image
Students will want to address the issues that they have a passion for, but I think that the challenge to this generation… — Nancy Pelosi Copy Share Image
By the time [of modern] generation was coming of age sexually, there was already this idea of safe sex. But that didn't… — Michael Stipe Copy Share Image
Actively we have woven ourselves with the very warp and woof of this nation-we have fought their battles, shared their sorrow, mingled… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
Wanted or unwanted, I believe that human life, even at its earliest stages, has certain rights which must be recognized – the… — Edward Kennedy Copy Share Image
Every generation always thinks it was better before, and I think people have been saying this for probably thousands of years. — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
I wouldn't call Adolf Hitler a corporal. Adolf Hitler was looked up to. He was revered almost like a God because he… — Jack Kirby Copy Share Image
Love is a sensation caused by temptation when a guy sticks his location into a girl's destination to increase the population for… — A. J. McLean Copy Share Image
“More than most sports, skiing is handed down through the generations. It doesn’t always stick, but when it does, it often sticks… — Porter Fox Copy Share Image
We cannot predict the effects of our actions, especially our collective actions over generations or centuries, to use instrumental reasoning toward these… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
We are playing Russian roulette with features of the planet’s atmosphere that will profoundly impact generations to come. How long are we… — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
I've been blessed. I grew up and played and worked and created with the Freddie Mercury, the Jimi Hendrix, the Keith Richards,… — Steven Adler Copy Share Image
I believe that there is an important kernel of truth in the idea that financial errors recur every other generation. — James Grant Copy Share Image
There's this idea of shifting baselines. It was coined by a guy named Jeremy Jackson. It's the idea that every generation takes… — Elizabeth Kolbert Copy Share Image
What cannot be talked about cannot be put to rest. And if it is not, the wounds will fester from generation to… — Bruno Bettelheim Copy Share Image
I am sick of war. Every woman of my generation is sick of war. Fifty years of war. Wars rumored, wars beginning,… — Josephine Winslow Johnson Copy Share Image
I think I know what is bothering the students. I think that what we are up against is a generation that is… — George Wald Copy Share Image
Thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations, and thou shalt be called, the repairer of the breach, the restorer of… — Bible Copy Share Image
[Millennials ] are sharing cars. They're sharing apartments. I'm not sure my generation quite knows how to take advantage of it. — Ken Moelis Copy Share Image
The kids I talk to are convinced their generation will make the best music. And the greatest artists have yet to be… — L.A. Reid Copy Share Image
I say nice things about Mariah Carey all the time. I tell Mariah all the time how much of a fan I… — Nicki Minaj Copy Share Image