Generations Quotes
3253 quotes by 2229 authors
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We need to send a message to Congress and the president that we want them to take the actions that are needed to preserve climate…
— James Hansen
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Comprehensive climate legislation must be passed so that we can ensure a world where this and future generations can experience the bliss of breathing clean…
— Gloria Reuben
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When you have a natural genetic tan developed over centuries and many generations, the idea of soaking up rays by the pool has never made…
— Abraham Verghese
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We live in a very uncertain world, and I think that uncertainty of itself generates an environment which we should not make a decision that…
— Des Browne
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We are borrowing money from future generations. We are borrowing the carbon impact, the resource impact from future generations to get stuff cheap now. We…
— Kevin McCloud
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I am a human being. I started out with virtually nothing. I worked my way up like so many businesspeople have and made ourselves great…
— Douglas R. Oberhelman
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Like a precious family heirloom, freedom is not just ours to enjoy, but to treasure, protect, and pass on to future generations.
— Os Guinness
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In the absence of full-fledged Congressional investigations, American policymakers rarely look back. They are bound by continuity and fealty across administrations and generations.
— Samantha Power
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I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work, the more I live. I rejoice in life for its…
— George Bernard Shaw
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The principle goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done…
— Jean Piaget
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Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many.…
— Buddha
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It would presently be his task to take the bandage from this young woman's eyes, and bid her look forth on the world. But how…
— Edith Wharton
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Only when the war propaganda of the victors is entered into the history books of the vanquished, (and this is also believed by succeeding generations),…
— Walter Lippmann
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And the LORD spake unto Aaron, saying, Do not drink wine nor strong drink, thou, nor thy sons with thee, when ye go into the…
— Bible
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And if ye have erred, and not observed all these commandments, which the LORD hath spoken unto Moses, Even all that the LORD hath commanded…
— Bible
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You know, the condom is the glass slipper of our generation. You slip it on when you meet a stranger. You dance all night, then…
— Chuck Palahniuk
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Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and…
— George Bernard Shaw
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It is only by spring that the death of the autumns returns. What about winter, which is death? When the pure snow white covers the…
— Sorin Cerin
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The divine nature of this world involves for the human being the pure, absolute nature, the plenitude state of this world, because this is what…
— Sorin Cerin
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I'm going to go out and get everybody together and say I think we ought to protect this for generations to come. Now, let's get…
— Bruce Babbitt
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