Generations Quotes

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The economic benefits of investing in children have been extensively documented. Investing fully in children today will ensure the well-being and productivity of future generations… — Carol Bellamy
We all have an obligation as citizens of this earth to leave the world a healthier, cleaner, and better place for our children and future… — Blythe Danner
It is always self-defeating to pretend to the style of a generation younger than your own; it simply erases your own experience in history. — Renata Adler
The worst thing that will probably happen-in fact is already well underway-is not energy depletion, economic collapse, conventional war, or the expansion of totalitarian governments.… — E. O. Wilson
This is the first generation in all of recorded history that can do something about the scourge of poverty. We have the means to do… — Hubert H. Humphrey
Until it's understood to involve justice for those in poverty, a future for generations yet unborn, and a commitment to the rest of creation, it's… — Bill McKibben
The best practical advice I can give to the present generation is to practice the virtue which the Christians call love. — Bertrand Russell
We are here to witness the creation and to abet it. We are here to notice each thing so each thing gets noticed. Together we… — Annie Dillard
With reference to the younger generation..."If the experience of their exhausted, insomniac, dispirited elders makes them decide they'd prefer not to go straight from the… — Anna Quindlen
The known is finite, the unknown infinite; spiritually we find ourselves on a tiny island in the middle of a boundless ocean of the inexplicable.… — Thomas Huxley
The Beat Generation, that was a vision that we had, John Clellon Holmes and I, and Allen Ginsberg in an even wilder way, in the… — Jack Kerouac
Every old man complains of the growing depravity of the world, of the petulance and insolence of the rising generation. — Samuel Johnson
It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their conviction. I wish I could teach the sad young of this mealy generation… — John Ciardi
Each generation criticizes the unconscious assumptions made by its parent. It may assent to them, but it brings them out in the open. — Alfred North Whitehead
it is clearly evident that our path travels through a valley of teas well known to all farm workers, because in all valleys the way… — Cesar Chavez
Every tradition grows continually more venerable, and the more remote its origins, the more this is lost sight of. The veneration paid the tradition accumulates… — Friedrich Nietzsche
A great reputation is a great noise, the more there is of it, and the further does it swell. Land, monuments, Nations, all fall, but… — Napoleon Bonaparte
The whites of the younger generation, in the colleges and universities, will see the handwriting on the wall and many of them will turn to… — Malcolm X
Laws just or unjust may govern men's actions. Tyrannies may restrain or regulate their words. The machinery of propaganda may pack their minds with falsehood… — Winston Churchill
Each generation of rabbis is necessarily less perfect than the rabbis that came before, since each generation is more removed from the perfection of the… — Cory Doctorow

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