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Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.

Quote by Joseph Addison about genius, books

It took us a long time to find out that we had been lied to by our parents' generation. The moralities that were followed during our parents' generation were basically arbitrary. This caused a rift between the two generations, which was brought on...

Quote by Peter Fonda about parents, time

Fans still want to hear lyrics. I have a generation of people who know me from the 1980s and a generation from now who know me from It's Not Right But It's Okay.

Quote by Whitney Houston about nation, rightness, people

It is pure illusion to think that an opinion that passes down from century to century, from generation to generation, may not be entirely false.

Quote by Pierre Bayle about opinion

There is always a heavy demand for fresh mediocrity. In every generation the least cultivated taste has the largest appetite.

Quote by Paul Gauguin about art, mediocrity

I'm going to go out and get everybody together and say I think we ought to protect this for generations to come. Now, let's get down to work and walk the land and talk about the conflicts and get everybody involved.

Quote by Bruce Babbitt about politics, work

This isn't just about today, this about generations to come. And you've got a chance to be the greatest conservation President since Theodore Roosevelt, and I think he's done it.

Quote by Bruce Babbitt about politics, chance

What I learned in my time isn't necessarily being taught now, and I'd like to help impart that knowledge to a new generation of players.

Quote by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar about help, knowledge, being, time

You know, I've been told that by some of the writers in the generation above me: You'll be able to write when you've found a voice.

Quote by Kathy Acker about writers, voice

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.

Quote by Joseph Addison about animals, wisdom, man

Sarah will talk to me about someone and I don't know who she's talking about, but if she talks to my mother, the two of them will know exactly - and across several generations, too.

Quote by Prince Andrew about talking, mother

Real values, I think people want to return to, especially in my generation, when we destroyed about every value there was.

Quote by Armand Assante about value, real estate, people

I was the Marlon Brando of my generation.

Quote by Bette Davis about opinion

I know if I were in your generation I would be really tired of seeing Sophia Loren as a sex object.

Quote by Katherine Dunn about sex

What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?

Quote by Marcus Tullius Cicero about state, man

This generation of filmmakers is very good. They're seasoned, for some reason.

Quote by Dennis Farina about reason, good, good luck

Then I was at Darmstadt from 1954 onwards, and it was great. My first pieces were played straightaway. It was there that I met everybody who made up that generation that redefined post-War music.

Quote by Luc Ferrari about war, music

The year I was born, 1956, was the peak year for babies being born, and there are more people essentially our age than anybody else. We could crush these new generations if we decided too.

Quote by Tom Hanks about age, olderness, being, people

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.

Quote by Anthony Hopkins about film, actors

When the painting is hanging on your wall for a long time, you don't notice it. You get tired of it, even if it's a Picasso. When the next generation inherits the painting, they sell it. I don't want to be sold.

Quote by Julio Iglesias about painting, commerce, time