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We can still maintain our coasts and oceans for the generations to come, who deserve what we have.
— Aaron Peirsol
You want to take some responsibility for you choices so that it sets the groundwork for that next generation of actresses.
— Nicole Kidman
There are definite vocal trends for every generation as well as accents and I'm not talking about regionalisms.
— Erica Schroeder
The choices that you make with your family today will determine the quality of life in your family tree for generations to come.
— Steve Farrar
Shakespeare is the Joss Whedon of his generation.
— Alexis Denisof
There are now no elders who know more than the young themselves about what the young are experiencing.
— Margaret Mead
Be good at the people who are not yet born. Prepare for them a better place than the one you came to inherit. They will be grateful to you
— Bangambiki Habyarimana
He was protecting me with just the tips of his fingers, like five miniature copies of his heart touching my skin.
— Megan Duke
11 But the plans of the LORD stand firm forever, the purposes of his heart through all generations.
— Anonymous
Every generation has the right to build its own world out of the materials of the past, cemented by the hopes of the future.
— Herbert Hoover
When ordinary human beings err, it is sad, but when leaders do, it haunts us for generations.
— Gurcharan Das
David Cronenberg is the most provocative, original, and consistently excellent North American director of his generation.
— J. Hoberman
I like to see what future generations are thinking about.
— Billie Jean King
We thrive when we are pulled by the future, not pushed by the past.
— Crystal Kadakia
What is the real relation between happiness and goodness? It is only within a few generations that men have found courage to say that there is none.
— William Graham Sumner
The historian's rightful task is to distil experience as a medicinal warning for the future generations, not to distil a drug.
— B.H. Liddell Hart
I'M ANGRY because the stories of injustice that have been passed down for generations seem to be continuing before our very eyes.
— Benjamin Watson
History should not be written to make the present generation feel good but to remind us that human affairs are complicated.
— Margaret MacMillan
One act of violence takes four generations to heal.
— Gloria Steinem
To identify oneself today as a man of Tradition is to be committed to the transmission of the received heritage for the benefit of future generations.
— Raido
It isrequisite from time to time to remind one generation of the experience which led a former generation to important legislative actions.
— William Stanley Jevons
The first novel that I wrote was because I was having very interesting sorts of experiences, for Indians of my generation.
— Karan Bajaj
You are all a lost generation. [with credit to Gertrude Stein]
— Ernest Hemingway,
What is well rooted cannot be pulled up. What is firmly grasped will not slip loose. It will be honoured from generation to generation.
— Laozi
The writing of history reflects the interests, predilections, and even prejudices of a given generation.
— John Hope Franklin
You can't appreciate the world you live in and know if it's better or worse than previous generations unless you know your history.
— Chris Dietzel
There is no greater gift to future generations than that we do the work God has asked us to do: love one another, that the world might be made right.
— Marianne Williamson
The prophets who spoke to their generations for God did not please and conform; they irritated and opposed.
— Billy Graham
Our strife pertains to ourselves-to the passing generations of men-and it can without convulsion be hushed forever with the passing of one generation.
— Abraham Lincoln
I really do feel like I'm in a generation where women are empowering and supporting each other. It's so amazing to feel a part of that.
— Hailee Steinfeld
I am not doing any favour, only performing a duty; this victory is a result of struggle of five generations.
— Narendra Modi
Why does every generation have to think that he lives in the period with the greatest turbulence?
— Henry Mintzberg
Like a precious family heirloom, freedom is not just ours to enjoy, but to treasure, protect, and pass on to future generations.
— Os Guinness
A liberal is a man who wants to use his own ideas on things in preference to generations who he knows know more than he does.
— Will Rogers
Each movement during combat honors the movements that the previous generations tried to transmit through the Tradition.
— Paulo Coelho
One of the fundamental missions of a family business is to pass the business to subsequent generations.
— Janis Raye
A work settles nothing, just as the labor of a whole generation settles nothing. Sons, and the morrow, always start afresh.
— Cesare Pavese
It is worthwhile for anyone to have behind him a few generations of honest, hard-working ancestry.
— John Phillips Marquand
Isn't it a shame that future generations can't be here to see all the wonderful things we're doing with their money?
— Earl Wilson
[Invading Iraq] would create generations that hated the USA.
— Jerry Springer
We are undermining a generation's happiness by depriving them of national identity, religious identity, and gender identity
— Dennis Prager
With common purpose comes, a mission and we should use it for far greater objectives, for human lives and to save our future generations.
— Santosh Kalwar
Mr. Bush is flaky, incompetent, and the most dangerous American president in a generation.
— Mark Latham
as we age, we are bound to find comfort from the notion that it takes generations for a way of life to fade.
— Amor Towles
If you make the tough decisions, people will hate you today. But they will thank you for generations.
— Meryl Streep
We need an angry generation, A generation to plow the horizons
— Nizar Qabbani
Things change in different countries as people grow, and as generations change.
— Shannon Elizabeth
For generations, even many otherwise decent white Southerners learned to despise black people.
— Linda Chavez
Events had been set in motion whose echo would be heard a thousand and more generations from now.
— J. Valor
Every generation blames the generation before them.
— Mutabaruka
I think there's been a reaction to the user generation source of travel information,
— Arthur Frommer
A program whose basic thesis is, not that the system of free enterprise for profit has failed in this generation, but that it has not yet been tried!
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
If everyone takes one action for peace every day, our future generations will be able to enjoy peace.
— Debasish Mridha
Well, sir, it is precisely my notion that one sees and learns most of all by observing our younger generations.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The trouble with the younger generation is that they don't stay young for very long.
— Albert Einstein
When you believe you have a future, you think in terms of generations and years. When you do not, you live not just by the day - but by the minute.
— Iris Chang
Over the generations, black leaders have ranged from noble souls to shameless charlatans.
— Thomas Sowell
Art is how a culture records its life, how it poses questions for the next generation and how it will be remembered.
— Marsha Norman
The smell of blood remains for generations.
— Kristian Goldmund Aumann
The soil is actually the greatest technology we have for adapting to climate change. And I feel it's our generation's duty to build it back up.
— Jason Mraz
I don't know who Peter Lorre is. Pathetic right? It shows you how completely gross and uncultured my generation is.
— Christina Ricci
Isserley walked along the path the generations of sheep-flocks had made, up the tiers of the hill. In her mind, she was already
— Michel Faber
The only source of the generation of additional capital goods is saving. If all the goods produced are consumed, no new capital comes into being.
— Ludwig Von Mises
When you know even for a moment
That it's your time
Then you can walk with the power
Of a thousand generations — Bruce Cockburn
That it's your time
Then you can walk with the power
Of a thousand generations — Bruce Cockburn
I joined the Safe Climate Caucus because I believe in leaving a safer planet for future generations.
— Mark Pocan
I agree with President Roosevelt, and generations since, that American seniors deserve better than poverty.
— Hank Johnson
My goal is to share all my learning, all of my knowledge, so that other generations of martial arts will benefit.
— Georges St-Pierre
Sunsets and death; death and therefore kisses, kisses and consequently birth and then death for yet another generation of sunset watchers.
— Aldous Huxley
I come from a different generation from my Dad.
— George W. Bush
The irony of the matter is that the future generations do not have a vote. In effect, we hold their proxy.
— Charles J. Hitch
In the same way that Shakespeare was writing very much for his time, he was also unearthing observations that would last for generations beyond him.
— Alexis Denisof
Peace for us means the destruction of Israel. We are preparing for an all-out war, a war which will last for generations.
— Yasser Arafat
The only future we count is the time and the moments we can take a breath and leave a word for the future coming generations.
— Auliq Ice
Let the future say of our generation that we sent forth mighty currents of hope and that we worked together to heal the world.
— Jeffrey Sachs
In real life there are indeed black people who have been in the middle class for generations, but in entertainment it's as if they don't exist.
— Stephen Carter
Each generation of Americans must define what it means to be an American.
— William J. Clinton
We have a great responsibility. Whatever we make will become the truth, the visual reality that a generation will accept.
— James Cameron
Paintings, like tombstones, will last a good five hundred years, well into twenty or thirty generations.
— Robert Genn
At least she's not guilty of integrity, and that's more than I can say of any Bell in four generations except my grandfather and myself.
— James Thurber
It has always been the task of the new generation to provoke changes.
— Ludwig Von Mises
We know that the next several generations need a better world to live in, which can only be a post-Obama World.
— Kesha Rogers
Each generation should be made to bear the burden of its own wars, instead of carrying them on, at the expense of other generations.
— James Madison
What have future generations ever done for us?
— Groucho Marx
America was built by immigrants. Almost nobody that I know is any more than three generations, maybe four generations, American.
— Michael Bloomberg
My family is American, and has been for generations, in all its branches, direct and collateral
— Ulysses S. Grant
I became the voice of a generation in a very surprising way, because many Iranians recognize themselves in it. But that is not what I wanted.
— Marjane Satrapi
We are facing a generation of young singers who are much more diminutive in their approach to singing.
— Jerome Hines
I'm glad the Cube is reaching new generations, who face it with fresh wonder, curiosity and enthusiasm.
— Erno Rubik
Ere many generations pass, our machinery will be driven by a power obtainable at any point of the universe.
— Nikola Tesla
Let the generations know that women in uniform also guaranteed their freedom.
— Mary Edwards Walker
My family have been around Northumberland for five generations.
— Kevin Whately