Listen carefully to what country people call mother wit. In those homely sayings are couched the collective wisdom of generations. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
When I first started comedy, me and my friends were kids. I claim - although I know that it's a spurious and… — Moshe Kasher Copy Share Image
I WILL SPARK A GENERATION OF THINKERS WHO WILL QUESTION TRADITIONAL THOUGHT UNTIL THEY FIND THE ABSOLUTE TRUTH — Kanye West 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
It is pure illusion to think that an opinion which passes down from century to century, from generation to generation, may not… — Pierre Bayle Copy Share Image
As a result of Title IX, and a new generation of parents who want their daughters to have the opportunities they never… — Sheryl Swoopes Copy Share Image
I've always felt that my generation was the last group to have passion about the game. Some of today's guys don't seem… — Tim Henman Copy Share Image
“Generations of people staying close to home, there for each other, doing what they knew best, enjoying being a burden to each… — Hugh Howey Copy Share Image
Once a fellow's enjoying the fruits of government health care and all the rest, he couldn't give a hoot about the general… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
Not only are the numbers of migrants entering the United States at the lowest levels in a generation, but they are now… — Alan Bersin Copy Share Image
My thing is every generation of Americans has to answer what we call the 'Superman Question.' Superman comes, lands in America. He's… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
There is something about humanity just being drained in many different ways, I think. There are so many things that drain us… — Mia Maestro Copy Share Image
The problem of environmental children's health is very urgent in Russia. Environmental situation now is the main factor, which determines young generation's… — Maria Cherkasova Copy Share Image
“My mother calls it 'the black tax.' Because the generations who came before you have been pillaged, rather than being free to… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
I think all kinds of meanings in life transcend your self. They're linked to other generations of people around us, to our… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
“When the younger generation seems to step over the wall of the old generation, it's rarely ever because they surpassed them. It's… — Lionel Suggs Copy Share Image
“own, did that mean we were living the same story over and over again, down through the generations? That the young and… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
Individually, every grain of sand brushing against my hands represents a story, an experience, and a block for me to build upon… — Raquel Cepeda Copy Share Image
We've known for some time that we have to worry about the impacts of climate change on our children's and grandchildren's generations.… — Margaret Beckett Copy Share Image
Rihanna is a pothead and so am I, so we're real cool. Weed is going to bring us together as a generation.… — ASAP Rocky Copy Share Image
By strengthening the three pillars of the United Nations - security, development and human rights - we can build a more peaceful,… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
As generations come and go, Their arts, their customs, ebb and flow; Fate, fortune, sweep strong powers away, And feeble, of themselves,… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
The ideas get under your skin. I am honored and deeply excited by the thought that the next generation of writers, or… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
We live not by things, but by the meaning of things. It is needful to transmit the passwords from generation to generation. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
The man who sees two or three generations is like one who sits in the conjuror's booth at a fair, and sees… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Music has given a voice to many generations, and I think we, as artists, can be a part of creating a better… — Shakira Copy Share Image
Opening for Louis C.K. during his "Hilarious" tour was a great experience for me. He is the generation just ahead of me,… — Ted Alexandro Copy Share Image
We call for a bailout for an entire generation that is basically held hostage by unpayable student-loan debt. — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
I wanna be a part of the generation that throws out money, throws out time, throws out all that we are against… — Jon Foreman Copy Share Image
Secularism, materialism, and the intrusive presence of things have put out the light in our souls and turned us into a generation… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The young man pities his elders, fearing the day he, too, will join their ranks. The elderly man pities the younger generation,… — Lynda I Fisher Copy Share Image
Alchemy is about the generation of a psychic construct, a wholeness, a thing which has many properties, which is paradoxical, which is… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
As the U.S. ambassador to Japan, I see this challenge of our younger generations not knowing each other as well as the… — John Roos Copy Share Image
It would show hugely if I didn't want to be somewhere. Doing what you want to do can only generate good energy. — Amanda Burton Copy Share Image
The year I was born, 1956, was the peak year for babies being born, and there are more people essentially our age… — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
The problem is, we've had three generations of Iranians who have come to really hate the United States. The Persians used to… — Bob Beckel Copy Share Image
I feel like we were the last generation, and there's this big divide before and after the 1990s. I feel sorry for… — Chloe Sevigny Copy Share Image
In our generation, the role models were Gandhi and Nehru. We revered them. They were venerated personalities. I read almost every speech… — Pranab Mukherjee Copy Share Image
The mark of a Scot of all classes [is that] he ... remembers and cherishes the memory of his forebears, good or… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good… — Gerard De Nerval Copy Share Image