Let us make future generations remember us as proud ancestors just as, today, we remember our forefathers.
~By Moo-hyum Roh ~
Can a woman become a genius of the first class? Nobody can know unless women in general shall have equal opportunity with men in education, in vocational choice, and in social welcome of their best intellectual work for a number of generations.
~By Anna Garlin Spencer ~
We, of our time, have played our part in the perseverance, and we have pledged ourselves to the dead generations who have preserved intact for us this glorious heritage, that we, too, will strive to be faithful to the end, and pass on this tradition unblemished.
~By Eamon de Valera ~
I can't think of any more important issue. If we get this right, we'll not only preserve our landscape for future generations we'll be able to generate I think more investment and more job opportunities in the inland and we sure as hell need those jobs.
~By John Anderson ~
All of the generations go to what is chic for them, and theater seems to be an older generation's art form.
~By Estelle Parsons ~
In the over two centuries since the signing of the Declaration of Independence, millions of Americans have bravely served our nation in uniform so that all generations can continue to enjoy those same liberties.
~By Doc Hastings ~
The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned.
~By Gerard De Nerval ~
In a few generations more, there will probably be no room at all allowed for animals on the earth: no need of them, no toleration of them.
~By Marie Louise ~
We believe democracy to be the only real guarantor of stability and we have sought to create a 'Jordanian model' that might also inspire others in our region. I wish democracy and peace to be my legacy to my people and the shield of generations to come.
~By King Hussein I ~
What is our vision on this earth - war to the end of all generations and life by the sword?
~By Moshe Sharett ~
Correcting it, I don't know; just shedding the light of day on it is a first major step, being one of the earliest generations not to just accept the words.
~By Paul Kantner ~
Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
By providing students in our Nation with such an education, we help save our children from the clutches of poverty, crime, drugs, and hopelessness, and we help safeguard our Nation's prosperity for generations yet unborn.
~By Elijah Cummings ~
We can preserve Social Security benefits for generations of Americans without privatizing this important program.
~By Richard Neal ~
We are seeing healing among the stolen generations, and initiatives which are enabling Indigenous people to make their distinctive contribution to our national life.
~By Malcolm Fraser ~
We believe that peace is not just signed papers, but rather a contract between generations for the building of a more promising and less threatening future.
~By King Hussein I ~
Every few generations there are people who come along that change the way we look at the world, for musical enthusiasts Monk is one of these individuals.
~By John Conyers ~
Each generation should be made to bear the burden of its own wars, instead of carrying them on, at the expense of other generations.
~By James Madison ~
It's a song that we sing after we win a Test match. We sing it after every one-day series win. It's been passed down through the generations. It's the culture of the Australian team.
~By Ricky Ponting ~
We have lost that which has made us great over the generations, and that is the sense of individual and personal responsibility that we can come up, we can pursue our dreams and our aspirations and we won't be blocked by government regulation, by the inability to get a loan as a small business to make our dreams come true.
~By Jon Huntsman, Jr. ~
An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.
~By Charles de Montesquieu ~
The death tax punishes the American dream - making it virtually impossible for the average American family to build wealth across generations.
~By Kit Bond ~
It was both Abraham's and the Jews' privilege also that they should have this promise to all generations.
~By Thomas Goodwin ~
I would love to expose multiple younger generations to Frank's music. It's not an easy task because It's not ever going to be plastered all over the radio for the masses.
~By Dweezil Zappa ~
Mrs. Parks' act of brave defiance rocked the foundation of American society and inspired generations of civil rights leaders and created a sense of hope for every American facing legal discrimination in this country.
~By Kendrick Meek ~
Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.
~By Khalil Gibran ~
But the history of the changes produced by a universal idea is not a history of changes in the individual, but of changes brought about by the successive efforts of millions of individuals in the course of many generations.
~By Lafcadio Hearn ~
Author: A fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenting generations to come.
~By Baron de Montesquieu ~
We have a moral responsibility to save wild places like the arctic refuge for future generations, and that is why our country has remained committed to its protection for nearly 50 years.
~By Lois Capps ~
The power to mould the future of the Republic will be in the hands of the journalists of future generations.
~By Joseph Pulitzer ~
Isn't it a shame that future generations can't be here to see all the wonderful things we're doing with their money?
~By Earl Wilson ~
It is up to us to live up to the legacy that was left for us, and to leave a legacy that is worthy of our children and of future generations.
~By Christine Gregoire ~
All around us are the consequences of the most significant technological, and hence cultural, revolution in generations.
~By Lawrence Lessig ~
I think that we have a responsibility to make certain that we are fiscally responsible in order to assure, frankly, future generations don't have to pay our bills.
~By Carol Moseley Braun ~
With faith and courage, generations of Armenians have overcome great suffering and proudly preserved their culture, traditions, and religion and have told the story of the genocide to an often indifferent world.
~By Jerry Costello ~
Even the simplest wicker basket can become priceless when it is loved and cared for through the generations of a family.
~By Sister Parish ~
If we intend to provide a better life, and a better world, for future generations, we can't ignore the quality of the environment we leave them.
~By John Kasich ~
That sense of sacredness, that thinking in generations, must begin with reverence for this earth.
~By Paul Tsongas ~
If we care about the children, the grandchildren, the future generations, we need to make sure that they do not become the cannon fodder of the future.
~By Helen Thomas ~
My sister and my brother, of whom I have not spoken before, were considerably older than I; it seemed almost as if we belonged to different generations.
~By Pierre Loti ~
Future generations are not going to ask us what political party were you in. They are going to ask what did you do about it, when you knew the glaciers were melting.
~By Martin Sheen ~
But these realities will make themselves felt soon enough and while I am certainly not asking you to close your eyes to the experiences of earlier generations, I want to advise you not to conform too soon and to resist the pressure of practical necessity.
~By Felix Bloch ~
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.
~By Prince Andrew ~
Comparisons are really no good in sport, especially if it is a comparison between different eras and generations, for there are so many variables that come into play, starting from the quality of the opposition to playing conditions.
~By Sunil Gavaskar ~
Last year the National Sorry Day Committee consulted with stolen generations people in every State and Territory, and concluded that programmes set up in response to the Bringing Them Home Report are reaching only a small fraction of those they are intended to help.
~By Malcolm Fraser ~
Education can counteract the natural tendency to do the wrong thing, but the inexorable succession of generations requires that the basis for this knowledge be constantly refreshed.
~By Garrett Hardin ~
There should be a sympathy with freedom, a desire to give it scope, founded not upon visionary ideas, but upon the long experience of many generations within the shores of this happy isle, that in freedom you lay the firmest foundations both of loyalty and order.
~By William E. Gladstone ~
Our American story, for generations, is of a people who seek to move forward. A people who look at a mountain and worry not about the tough climb ahead, but dream about the view from the summit.
~By Bill Owens ~
If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it looked when we got through with it.
~By Lyndon B. Johnson ~
There is a mysterious cycle in human events. To some generations much is given. Of other generations much is expected. This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.
~By Franklin D. Roosevelt ~
The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done.
~By Jean Piaget ~
If we hold true to our ideals and our commitment to freedom, this generation of servicemen and women will have extended liberty to the Iraqi people, just as previous generations of Americans have all across the globe.
~By James Talent ~
For generations, even many otherwise decent white Southerners learned to despise black people.
~By Linda Chavez ~
The reason people blame things on previous generations is that there's only one other choice.
~By Doug Larson ~
Genetics is about how information is stored and transmitted between generations.
~By John M. Smith ~
Human nature must have come much nearer perfection than it is now, or will be in many generations, to exclude from such a control prejudice, selfishness, ambition, and injustice.
~By Elihu Root ~
People repeat behaviour that leads to flooding their brains with pleasurable chemicals. The short-term reward loop acts over hours to years, and the long-term reproductive success loop over generations.
~By Keith Henson ~
I plant a lot of trees. I am a great believer in planting things for future generations. I loathe the now culture where you just live for today.
~By Penelope Keith ~
I can assume that the younger generations will no longer know what vinyl was. Maybe some kids will take their CD back to the shop, telling the shop owner they have a faulty disc and if they could please get a new one.
~By Mike Rutherford ~
In Europe the parents are included as with children. All three generations are together. I'm thinking of Italy. You go out on a Sunday afternoon and the whole family is there.
~By Dana Delany ~
We owe at least this much to future generations, from whom we have borrowed a fragile planet called Earth.
~By Maurice Strong ~
Whether they run a record company or a grocery store, every boss will tell you you're in big trouble if you're borrowing more than you can ever afford to pay back. Delaying the pain for future generations is suicidal. We've got to start getting the deficit down right now, not next year.
~By Simon Cowell ~
Our work is before us. It cannot be passed to future legislatures and must not be passed to future generations. May we boldly seize the moment with singular unity. And may we build a Texas of unlimited possibility.
~By Rick Perry ~
I maintain that if there is such a thing as a true and honest environmentalist, it's people like Slim and hopefully me, who have been caretakers of the land all our lives, along with the generations before us.
~By Wilford Brimley ~
You know, I come from six generations of college graduates.
~By Julian Bond ~
In light of these facts Republicans have put forth a variety of proposals to make Social Security remain solvent for future generations. But up to this point, Democrats have chosen to oppose our good faith efforts and insist that indeed there is no problem.
~By John Doolittle ~
The highly motivated young people who comprise the backbone of our military force truly are taking their place as one of America's greatest generations.
~By Trent Lott ~
I realized then that the generations may change but the strength of our nation remains solid.
~By Jane D. Hull ~
It's amazing how fast generations lose sight of other generations. One of the first things the young composers who come to work with me say is that they want to write music people will like, instead of gaining their credentials by being rejected by the audience.
~By Carlisle Floyd ~
I don't like giving names to generations. It's like trying to read the song title on a record that's spinning.
~By Ian Williams ~
While it may take generations of nurturing, nations founded on and grounded in freedom will eventually overcome and prosper. Once free, folks rarely accept anything less, and that includes Iraqis.
~By Trent Lott ~
The lessons of the past should steer us towards ensuring lasting legacies for generations yet to be born.
~By Hun Sen ~
My efforts in Congress are guided by the belief that environmental preservation and restoration are a critical part of the legacy we leave to future generations.
~By Sue Kelly ~
First, the firearms industry has been around and has been respected for generations. They provide a valuable service and a highly desirable product to millions of sportsmen and supporters of those second amendment rights.
~By Cliff Stearns ~
In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility - I welcome it.
~By John F. Kennedy ~
It is my firm belief that I have a link with the past and a responsibility to the future. I cannot give up. I cannot despair. There's a whole future, generations to come. I have to keep trying.
~By King Hussein ~
The Freudian theory is one of the most important foundation stones for an edifice to be built by future generations, the dwelling of a freer and wiser humanity.
~By Thomas Mann ~
If we had, we would have realised sooner that Indigenous organisations are sometimes not the appropriate channel for programmes to help the stolen generations, because many of them play little part in Indigenous associations.
~By Malcolm Fraser ~
I'm enormously proud of the fact that Star Trek has really not just sparked an interest, but encouraged, a few generations of people to go into the sciences.
~By LeVar Burton ~
Thinking in generations also means enabling our young to have a decent standard of living.
~By Paul Tsongas ~
Formation of a new race takes place when, over several generations, individuals in one group reproduce more frequently among themselves than they do with individuals in other groups.
~By J. Philippe Rushton ~
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.
~By Bruce Babbitt ~
But there is a need to explore ways we can preserve the promise of Social Security for future generations.
~By Sue Kelly ~
Hopefully, generations after us will continue to protect, preserve, and look after this wonderful land.
~By Wilford Brimley ~
The New York City Ballet is obviously speaking to a whole new generation and bringing it the same wonder and beauty that it brought previous generations.
~By Robert Caro ~
It's a great pleasure having survived six generations of TV critics.
~By Geraldo Rivera ~
Our deep respect for the land and its harvest is the legacy of generations of farmers who put food on our tables, preserved our landscape, and inspired us with a powerful work ethic.
~By James H. Douglas ~
As Members of Congress and people of conscience, we must work to overcome the indifference and distortions of history, and ensure that future generations know what happened.
~By Jerry Costello ~
It was this society and culture that among other things - including economic opportunities here and repression in Europe - attracted subsequent generations of immigrants to this country.
~By Samuel P. Huntington ~
The generation which lived through the Second World War is disappearing. Post-war generations see Europe's great achievements - liberty, peace and prosperity - as a given.
~By Jan Peter Balkenende ~
When I did the film Generations, in which the character died, I felt like a guest for the first time. That made me very sad.
~By William Shatner ~
Let no vandalism of avarice or neglect, no ravages of time, testify to the present or to the coming generations, that we have forgotten, as a people, the cost of a free and undivided Republic.
~By John A. Logan ~
Over 120 Aboriginal communities run their own health services - some have been doing so for 30 years. They struggle with difficult medical problems. They also try to deal with counselling, stolen generations issues, family relationships, violence, suicide prevention.
~By Malcolm Fraser ~
Specifically, I am concerned about the long-term condition of Social Security. I am committed to ensuring that current beneficiaries and those nearing retirement face no reduction in benefits, while preserving this vital program for future generations.
~By Cliff Stearns ~
The nation is a community. Community of individuals, community of generations.
~By Aleksander Kwasniewski ~
In times of war, it is often best to look to our history to see how past generations of Americans dealt with the loss of their countrymen in just causes.
~By Virginia Foxx ~
Ensuring quality higher education is one of the most important things we can do for future generations.
~By Ron Lewis ~
Thus the sum of things is ever being reviewed, and mortals dependent one upon another. Some nations increase, others diminish, and in a short space the generations of living creatures are changed and like runners pass on the torch of life.
~By Lucretius ~
The great Jewish scientists and philosophers of the last few generations - Spinoza, Einstein, Freud, Robert Oppenheimer and others - were natives of Europe and America.
~By David Ben Gurion ~
It is very remarkable, that in the book of life, we find some almost of all kinds of occupations, who notwithstanding served God in their respective generations, and shone as so many lights in the world.
~By George Whitefield ~
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