(1292 quotes found)
“And not only did he learn by experience, but instincts long dead became alive again. The domesticated generations fell from him. In vague ways he remembered back to the youth of the breed, to the time the wild dogs ranged in packs through the primeval forest and killed their meat as they ran it down.”
Jack London
“Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them with their homework /an inability to endure pain or discipline or pursue any self-sustained goal of any sort, a devastating boredom with life.”
Betty Friedan
“Today's comedian has a cross to bear that he built himself. A comedian of the older generation did an ''act'' and he told the audience, ''This is my act.'' Today's comic is not doing an act. The audience assumes he's telling the truth. What is truth today may be a damn lie next week.”
Lenny Bruce
“It is precisely the purpose of the public opinion generated by the press to make the public incapable of judging, to insinuate into it the attitude of someone irresponsible, uninformed.”
Walter Benjamin
“Festival of the impassioned efforts and manifold ambitions of all forms of youthful activity of every generation springing from the threshold of life.”
Pierre de Coubertin
“It's not our fault our generation has short attention spans, Dad. We watch an appalling amount of TV.”
Yeardley Smith
“The beat generation”
Jack Kerouac
“Even the simplest wicker basket can become priceless when it is loved and cared for through the generations of a family.”
Sister Parish
“I don't know who Peter Lorre is. Pathetic right? It shows you how completely gross and uncultured my generation is.”
Christina Ricci
“It is possible to lead astray an entire generation, to strike it blind, to drive it insane, to direct it towards a false goal. Napoleon proved this.”
Alexander Herzen
