Quotes of: Greatest-generation Keyword

Sincere and generous collaboration is the best way to fulfil the legitimate aspirations of each person and achieve great collective goals for the common good and the general interest.

King Felipe VI

Propaganda is a sprinter, but truth is a long-distance runner.

Responsibilities to future generations: Environmental ethics

So what are we given? We're also given, my generation, the disillusionment of our parents.

Jewel

No member of our generation who wasn't a Communist or a dropout in the thirties is worth a damn.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Without courage, our generation is doomed to another decade of political disenfranchisement and shit music.

Laurie Penny

I started at General Motors at 18 years old as a co-op student at the General Motors Institute, which is now Kettering.

Mary Barra

My generation must have despair. - Leonard Bernstein Ch 40/Dog Water Free, A Memoir

Michael Jay

With my luck, if I ever invested in General Motors, they'd bust it to Corporal!

Robert Orben

The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap.

Spiro T. Agnew

A Woman who is generous with her money is to be praised; not so, if she is generous with her person

Marcus Fabius Quintilianus

I'm showing the younger generation your career doesn't have to be over when you're 16-years-old.

Nastia Liukin

Semiotics is a general theory of all existing languages... all forms of communication - visual, tactile, and so on... There is general semiotics, which is a philosophical approach to this field, and then there are many specific semiotics.

Umberto Eco

Our mothers' generation fought so hard to change things and we're the first generation to benefit. And now you get girls in their twenties who say they're not feminists.

Kristin Davis

A generation without history is a generation that not only loses a nation's memory but loses a sense of what it's like to be inside a human skin.

Simon Schama

This submission is a restraint of liberty, but could be of no effect as to the good intended, unless it were general; nor general, unless it were natural.

Algernon Sidney

My generation have had it good, and I am really troubled by what we have done with it.

Jeremy Paxton

In the ultimate analysis, all of us would have served Pakistan better if history and our future generations judge us positively.

Ashfaq Parvez Kayani

With the continued support of citizens who refuse to accept inaction at the expense of future generations, we will lead the world toward a sustainable future.

Diana DeGette

The only thing that can save us as a species is seeing how we're not thinking about future generations in the way we live.

Erik Erikson

If we care about the children, the grandchildren, the future generations, we need to make sure that they do not become the cannon fodder of the future.

Helen Thomas

The most basic task of any museum must be the protection of works of cultural significance entrusted to its care for the edification and pleasure of future generations.

Martin Filler