Quotes of: Greatest-generation Keyword

It is, I believe, the greatest generation any society has ever produced.

Tom Brokaw

World War II brought the Greatest Generation together. Vietnam tore the Baby Boomers apart.

Jim Webb

Whatever comes next for this generation, that's going to be the greatest voice.

Clancy Brown

I want to be the greatest investigative reporter of my generation.

Michael Hastings

Nuclear disarmament is one of the greatest legacies we can pass on to future generations.

Ban Ki-moon

Make no mistake. The greatest destroyer of ecology. The greatest source of waste, depletion and pollution. The greatest purveyor of violence, war, crime, poverty, animal abuse and inhumanity. The greatest generator of personal and social neurosis, me...

Peter Joseph

There's Dick Van Dyke and John Ritter, the two greatest physical comics of our generation.

Suzanne Somers

The Greatest Generation got to save old tires, dig a Victory Garden and forgo sugar. The Richest Generation is being asked to shop.

Margaret Carlson

Because consciousness has no mass and extension, no parts or physical properties, it is Nothing, which on the other hand, can generate the matter and energy of the entire universe.

Change: Realizing Your Greatest Potential

It is interesting to wonder whether taxonomists of the future may regret the way our generation messed around with genomes.

The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution

We need to teach the next generation of children from day one that they are responsible for their lives. Mankind's greatest gift, also its greatest curse, is that we have free choice. We can make our choices built from love or from fear.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

The single greatest reason why we are losing a generation is because the home is no longer the place of the transference of the faith. We live in a day of ‘outsourcing’…Today, we have a generation of people that outsource their kids.

Tony Evans

The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of opinion and detail, is the one that must rule all observation.

Adam Smith

I think the best actors are the most generous, the kindest, the greatest people and at their worst they are vain, greedy and insecure.

Kenneth Branagh

Education is our greatest opportunity to give an irrevocable gift to the next generation.

Ernie Fletcher

I wanted to work with Cate Blanchett. She is one of the five greatest movie actresses of her generation.

Alec Baldwin

The thing that makes my generation The Greatest is our ability to hang out. We're spectacular at it. If you take somebody from my generation and sit them on a couch and bring them food and plumbing, they'll sit there and talk to you about anything yo...

Lewis Black

Patton: When we took Palermo they called me a hero, said I was the greatest general since Stonewall Jackson. General Omar N. Bradley: [looking at a newspaper and chuckling] And now they draw cartoons about you.

Patton

Relatively speaking, science can provide reliable standards to verify truth in a physical, material sense, but values are not its strength. What one generation takes to be true is debunked and made obsolete by new discoveries.

Change: Realizing Your Greatest Potential

Captain Darrow: Sergeant Crisp, secure the General. I'm relieving you of command, sir. [pause] Captain Darrow: SERGEANT. [Sergeant Crisp pulls out his pistol and reaches for General Hummel's gun holster] Sergeant Crisp: I'll have that sidearm, sir. [...

The Rock

Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau