Famous Quotes & Sayings

Al Capp

Today's younger generation is no worse than my own. We were just as ignorant and repulsive as they are, but nobody listened to us.

Al Capone

Now I know why tigers eat their young.

Charles Kennedy

My idealism has not abated, but I have witnessed it withering away nationwide, to the point where at least among the young, to have ideals is akin to being blinkered and oldfashioned.

Channing Tatum

I had a bad stutter when I was really young. I couldn't get a sentence out. Like, 'D-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-ad.' And that turned into a mumble.

Jane Austen

She was nothing more than a mere good-tempered, civil and obliging Young Woman; as such we could scarcely dislike her -- she was only an Object of Contempt

Burt Ward

Maybe it was all those wild times that kept me young.

Brandon Sanderson

People see in stories what they’re looking for, my young friend.

James Garner

There are younger directors, and anybody over 30 is ancient to them, because they're not that old.

Diane von Furstenberg

When I was young, I lived like an old woman, and when I got old, I had to live like a young person.

Timothy Noah

With so much to be aware of, awareness bracelets have reverted to signifying nothing more than color itself. Idealism has devolved into fashion.

Joe Trippi

He stands for something, he has that idealism and that something that you just don't see in 99.9 percent of today's politicians.

James Carville

If you didn't have some sense of idealism, then what is there to sustain you?

Thomas Carlyle

The actual well seen is ideal.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every materialist will be an idealist; but an idealist can never go backward to be a materialist.

William Hague

I have always thought that foreign-policy idealism has to be tempered with realism.