I came to this office to solve problems and not pass them on to future presidents and future generations. — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
there are now no elders who know more than the young themselves about what the young are experiencing. — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
We must protect our most precious resource, our environment, for future generations. — Alma Adams Copy Share Image
Ours was a generation grown up to find all gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken" -- — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Each generation supposes that the world was simpler for the one before it. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I cannot but think it an evil sign of a people when their houses are built to last for one generation only. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Fear of corrupting the mind of the younger generation is the loftiest form of cowardice. — Holbrook Jackson Copy Share Image
There is also a philosophy of less-is-more, and a little dignity that never hurt anybody. There are many qualities to admire about… — James Redford Copy Share Image
People try to put us down (Talkin' 'bout my generation) Just because we get around (Talkin' 'bout my generation) Things they do… — Pete Townshend Copy Share Image
Simonides, a poet famous in his generation, is, I think, author of the oldest satire that is now extant, and, as some… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
As we all know, we're all highly influenced by the atmosphere that our parents create when we're growing up. And, if we… — Alex Kendrick Copy Share Image
I grew up believing my generation would be better. We would be kinder, we would be more level-headed. We would be more… — Jorja Fox Copy Share Image
No one came to earth empty; everybody came with a contribution to make to their generation. Most of them never find that… — Myles Munroe Copy Share Image
It seems that every generation needs its public, tweedy, literary personality to sell its consumer electronics. To whatever degree I can live… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
The taboo for straight actors playing gay is gone... My mother was squirming a bit in the theater because she comes from… — Dean Cain Copy Share Image
If children were brought into the world by an act of pure reason alone, would the human race continue to exist? Would… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
I'm an independent. I'm a centrist. A new generation is arriving that has grown up with a multiplicity of choice in every… — John Avlon Copy Share Image
Our ascent, of course, does not end the possibility for new accomplishments on El Capitan. The day will probably come when this… — Royal Robbins Copy Share Image
Kids don't know the language of figure skating. If you ask them to do a compulsory figure, they don't know how to,… — Brian Boitano Copy Share Image
The biggest problem for my generation is that people who were born years before us have no concept of us at all.… — Liam Gillick Copy Share Image
No more generations of our youth, here and all around the world, whose life is over, whose fate has been sealed, who… — Bob Avakian Copy Share Image
But you see, our society is still trapped in this binary, black/white logic and that has had some very positive implications for… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
The human psyche has two great sicknesses: the urge to carry vendetta across generations, and the tendency to fasten group labels on… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The great Norwegian playwright, Henrik Ibsen, wrote, "One of these days, the younger generation will come knocking at my door." The future… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
Human rights are not the preserve of Western activists: The definition must extend to encompass the right to the dignified life; the… — Paul Kagame Copy Share Image
Ere many generations pass, our machinery will be driven by a power obtainable at any point of the universe. This idea is… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
I believe we're at the verge of the greatest time to be alive in this world. But Washington is holding us back.… — Jeb Bush Copy Share Image
One thing is funny because my grandparents are going to come see the show and my mom was concerned that they wouldn't… — Sarah Steele Copy Share Image
Paul Otremba’s remarkable first book, The Currency, is an intriguing foray into lyric epistemology that tries to come to ter ms with… — Michael Collier Copy Share Image
Packed with fascinating personal perspective and testimony, Michael Takiffs A Complicated Man wholly justifies its title. The book is far more than… — Nigel Hamilton Copy Share Image
Gay people exist. There's nothing we can do in public policy that makes more of us exist, or less of us exist.… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
