Quotes of: Our-generation Keyword

It may be very generous in one person to offer what it would be ungenerous in another to accept.

Samuel Richardson

The reason why so little is done, is generally because so little is attempted.

Samuel Smiles

I'm trying to encourage my children's generation and the other ones coming to return to basic American principles.

Stewart Udall

It won't be long before the Facebook generation will be rejected by the non-Facebook people who will be rejected by the post-Facebook people. Everyone will be on their own planet.

Sigourney Weaver

I read Google News and use NetNewsWire to keep up with general and tech news.

Steve Wozniak

I'm Korean-American. Not Colombian. My parents are first-generation, and I'm like... in-between, because I moved over here when I was four or five.

Steven Yeun

American newspapers are dying mostly because they were so dull for so long, a whole generation gave up on them.

Tina Brown

Nine-tenths of tactics are certain, and taught in books: but the irrational tenth is like the kingfisher flashing across the pool, and that is the test of generals.

T. E. Lawrence

We're the most aggressively inarticulate generation to come along since, you know, a long time ago!

Taylor Mali

A hallucination is to be in the presence of that which previously could not be imagined, and if it previously could not be imagined then there is no grounds for believing that you generated it out of yourself.

Terence McKenna

With its Medicaid expansion, Obamacare may turn out to be the most equality-promoting policy enacted in a generation.

Timothy Noah

With artists of my own generation there was at first no group identity - and never a clique.

Kenneth Noland

I was assigned to do a job by the attorney general, and that was to find out whether crimes were committed.

Ken Starr

There are two phases to a movie. First you shoot the movie, and then you make the movie. Generally, post-production is longer than filming.

Keenen Ivory Wayans

I think generalizations of any sort are dangerous. I'll say, if that is the case - right now it's an American issue.

Kerry Washington

I believe in my heart that 'Avatar' is going to be the revolutionary sci-fi movie for this generation, in this era.

Laz Alonso

'Saturday Night Fever,' Paula Abdul, 'Fame,' Debbie Allen... all affected me and the generation before me.

Laurieann Gibson

The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

Lee Iacocca

I'm part of that generation that grew up watching TV, and being an actor was all about being on TV or being in films.

Lennie James

I believe the destiny of your generation - and your nation - is a rendezvous with excellence.

Lyndon B. Johnson

We must be part of the general staff at the inception, rather than the ambulance drivers at the bitter end.

Lane Kirkland