There is much the government can do and should do to improve the environment. But even more important is the individual who… — Lady Bird Johnson Copy Share Image
It is essential to collectively struggle to recover our status as Daughters of the Earth. In that is our strength, and the… — Winona LaDuke Copy Share Image
I've come to believe that God, in His wisdom, allows martyrdom in every generation in part because, without them, the reality of… — Mark Galli Copy Share Image
My final remark to young women and men going into experimental science is that they should pay little attention to the speculative… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I set out on this ground which I suppose to be self-evident, that the earth belongs in usufruct to the living. .… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I have never had a president who inspired me the way people tell me that my father inspired them. But for the… — Caroline Kennedy Copy Share Image
We need to preserve these sacred locations for ourselves, for the species of plants and animals that coexist in harmony there, and… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Think about all of the families where the father is a doctor and the son is a doctor or generations of coal… — Rosanne Cash Copy Share Image
Many male habitues of massage parlors, like Talese, did not like solitary masturbation; in the parlance of the younger generation, it was… — Gay Talese Copy Share Image
Connectivity just can't be a privilege for people in the richest countries. We believe that connecting everyone in the world is one… — Mark Zuckerberg Copy Share Image
I've always said if somebody wrote a book and they took their whole life to learn that knowledge in that book, why… — Jeff Olson Copy Share Image
What we need to wake people up to now is the crisis in imagination and concern for the greater good. We have… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
When I first got into the first-year study after the Cultural Revolution, got into the same school with this group, I wasn't… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
A lot of it starts with playing instruments and working with other people. Some of the new generation is doing it on… — Ray Parker, Jr Copy Share Image
Surfers travelled and opened up and changed. It became more mainstream, less of a cult. And it diversified. On any given day… — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
We still have our people working in the cane fields in the Dominican Republic. People are still repatriated all the time from… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
One of my favorite phobias is that girls, especially those whose tastes aren't routine, often don't get a fair break... It has… — Amelia Earhart Copy Share Image
If you start thinking about the kids being born now, for them the computer is ancient history. So one imagines that when… — Robert Coover Copy Share Image
A man must always live by his work, and his wages must at least be sufficient to maintain him. They must even… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
I was so upset with what was going on in the world. I just couldn't stand the idea of being people tortured… — Vivienne Westwood Copy Share Image
Michel Houellebecq is the most interesting, provocative and important European novelist of my generation. Period. No one else comes close. He has… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
The torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans, born in this century... unwilling to witness or permit the slow… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
You are already leaders. Your ideas, your actions and your decisions make a difference. More than any other generation, you have a… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
We're not encouraging idols other than on the TV show, you know and that's the wrong way to do it. If we… — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
In history as in life it is success that counts. Start a political upheaval and let yourself be caught, and you will… — Hendrik Willem van Loon Copy Share Image
It is the custom to sneer at the modern apartment-house, television, big-city Christmas, with its commercial taint . . . office parties,… — Paul Gallico Copy Share Image
The place of electronic music, culturally and socially, is today completely different - it is now everywhere, and it has been totally… — Thomas Bangalter Copy Share Image
Being an artist and a musician, I have witnessed the previous generation taking the art form, not as a way of making… — David Finckel Copy Share Image
An American economist of two generations ago, H. J. Davenport, who was the best friend Thorstein Veblen ever had (Veblen actually lived… — Paul Samuelson Copy Share Image
Continue to instruct the world; and - whilst we carry on a poor unequal conflict with the passions and prejudices of our… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
My grandmother didn't live to see us begin our lives in public service. But she probably would have thought it extraordinary that… — Julian Castro Copy Share Image
Now I truly believe that we in this generation must come to terms with nature, and I think we're challenged, as mankind… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
The American government has been harvesting the Middle Eastern grapes of wrath for a generation and not making a secret of it,… — Nicholas von Hoffman Copy Share Image
When you grow up in an extended family, or in a stable neighborhood with two or three generations of families who live… — Dean Ornish Copy Share Image
I'm a first generation American. My mother is Italian and Russian and a lot of other things, and my father is Uruguayan.… — Sebastian Arcelus Copy Share Image
There is, of course, no complete solution. But we can do something. The chief means open to us is education There is… — C.P. Snow Copy Share Image
There's more student debt than credit card debt! Everywhere I go, I run into young people trying to build careers while they… — Gail Collins Copy Share Image
Here you have 22 million Afro-Americans, black people today, catching more hell than Patrick Henry ever saw. And I'm here to tell… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
When the scope of the problem seems insuperable, isn't it time to call this one, give it up, and get on with… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
It's sad that as crushed Millennials we live in the shadow of our parents, our fathers. We aren't willing to murder our… — Cody Wilson Copy Share Image