I’m speaking for all of us. I’m the spokesman for a generation.

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.

I think all those actors from that generation, like Bogart – they were wonderful actors. They didn’t act. They just came on and they did it, and the characters were wonderful.

We were all on this ship in the sixties, our generation, a ship going to discover the New World. And the Beatles were in the crow’s nest of that ship.

The awareness that health is dependent upon habits that we control makes us the first generation in history that to a large extent determines its own destiny.

On Sundays when I speak, I hopefully give somebody something that they can use the next day at work or at home.

Here’s the thing. We do a movie with a predominantly black cast, and it’s put in a category of being a black film. When other movies are done with a predominantly white cast, we don’t call them a white film. I’m trying to remove the stigma off things they call black films.

Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We, of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.

An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.

For so many people, television and movies may be the only way they understand people who aren’t like them.

People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.

When you’re doing a film and the majority of the film is cast black, for me, it’s most important to get people to view those movies as just movies, as just good movies. At the end of the day, regardless of the color of the cast, we’re all doing the same thing in this business: trying to make a good film.

It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.

When you are trying to impress people with words, the more you say, the more common you appear, and the less in control. Even if you are saying something banal, it will seem original if you make it vague, open-ended, and sphinxlike.

It is a curious thing: man, the centre and creator of all science, is the only object which our science has not yet succeeded in including in a homogeneous representation of the universe. We know the history of his bones, but no ordered place has yet been found in nature for his reflective intelligence.

I did go to Wellesley, a women’s college. And I am of a kind of strange generation which is transitional in terms of women who wanted to go out and get jobs.

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.

Listen to many, speak to a few.

It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear.

Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.

We were the first generation to have to deal with the modern stardom of football. Some handled it better than others.

History has proven that each generation of Howard graduates will forge the way forward for our country and our world.

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

Sisters, do you realize the breadth and scope of your influence when you speak those things that come to your heart and mind as directed by the Spirit?

Before I speak, I have something important to say.

The whole slacker generation totally didn’t apply to us musically.

We must distinguish between speaking to deceive and being silent to be reserved.

Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.

Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them.

I like to speak on matters which matter to human beings, and almost everything matters to human beings.

I’m a huge fan of R. Kelly’s. He’s a musical genius and probably the most prolific artist of the generation before mine.

Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.

I’m trying to do what Eddie Murphy did for his generation. You have to show people, ‚I’m different. I’m not just a comedian.‘ I’m trying to become a rock star.

The key is to vote because we need a vote to put the people in power that we want to represent us.

I am Warhol. I am the No. 1 most impactful artist of our generation. I am Shakespeare in the flesh.

Well I have a microphone and you don’t so you will listen to every damn word I have to say!

The fact is that ours is the first generation that can look disease and extreme poverty in the eye, look across the ocean to Africa, and say this, and mean it. We do not have to stand for this. A whole continent written off – we do not have to stand for this.

All in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and dedicated to flight, I was disappointed by the wrinkle in history that had brought me along one generation late. I had missed all the great times and adventures in flight.

I’m just blessed, man, to be able to represent solidarity with the small schools I went to.

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

I carry the flag of Ireland all the time. I want to represent my country.

We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.

Language is the dress of thought.

He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.

Everything I do, I hope, is that I represent something, and I represent the right things to my children and give them the right sense of what they’re capable of and the world as it should be seen.

The reproduction of mankind is a great marvel and mystery. Had God consulted me in the matter, I should have advised him to continue the generation of the species by fashioning them out of clay.

Apple has given me a platform to spread music. They’re giving us Latinos a chance to shine.

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can’t, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.

The men who followed Him were unique in their generation. They turned the world upside down because their hearts had been turned right side up. The world has never been the same.

A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what has a beginning and middle and end.

I speak directly to the people, and I know that the people of California want to have better leadership. They want to have great leadership. They want to have somebody that will represent them. And it doesn’t matter if you’re a Democrat or a Republican, young or old.

Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.

The guys who won World War II and that whole generation have disappeared, and now we have a bunch of teenage twits.

Like a baseball game, wars are not over till they are over. Wars don’t run on a clock like football. No previous generation was so hopelessly unrealistic that this had to be explained to them.

It’s a representation of yourself, and you can express a lot of your creativity with what your wearing.

My mind-set is Munich. Most of my generation’s is Vietnam.

I’m from the generation that had the boys‘ door and the girls‘ door when you went to school, and you got in big trouble if you went in the wrong one.

The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.