Succeeding Generations Quotes
19 quotes by 18 authors
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There is a timelessness about sport. Like music and art, it is a quality that cuts across generations and nations. It provides a link between…
— Greg Hartung
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This is the moral challenge of our generation. Not only are the eyes of the world upon us. More important, succeeding generations depend on us.…
— Ban Ki-moon
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The institutions founded 'to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war' have failed. Since the end of WW2, some thirty million people have been…
— George Monbiot
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The spirit of tanka interests me more than following rigid conventions. As I understand it, the tradition allows a variety of approaches, from simple description…
— Harryette Mullen
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If our economies are to flourish, if global poverty is to be banished, and if the well-being of the world's people enhanced - not just…
— Gordon Brown
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Even an entire society, a nation, or all simultaneously existing societies taken together, are not owners of the earth. They are simply its possessors, its…
— Karl Marx
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When women thrive, all of society benefits, and succeeding generations are given a better start in life.
— Kofi Annan
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We have counted the cost of this contest, and find nothing so dreadful as voluntary slavery.-Honor, justice, and humanity, forbid us tamely to surrender that…
— Thomas Jefferson
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It requires but a very small glance of thought to perceive, that although laws made in one generation often continue in force through succeeding generations,…
— Thomas Paine
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When William the Conqueror commissioned a great survey of his English realm at Gloucester in 1085, the result was a work so thorough, fair, dispassionate,…
— James Buchan
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I can't believe that this world can go on beyond our generation and on down to succeeding generations with this kind of weapon on both…
— Ronald Reagan
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Our youth must be steadfast and take advantage of the benefits of modern civilization. Do not fall prey to idleness for it shall be a…
— Haile Selassie
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Civilization could not exist until there was written language, because without written language no generation could bequeath to succeeding generations anything but its simpler findings.
— Charlton Laird
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If succeeding generations of Americans don't understand the concepts of justice, individual rights, free enterprise, capitalism, sovereignty or national security, there can be no guarantee…
— George Nethercutt
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The Bible tells us that the sins of the fathers are passed to succeeding generations. The virtues of the fathers can be passed along, too.
— Norman Vincent Peale
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We are being made aware that the organization of society on the principle of private profit, as well as public destruction, is leading both to…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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By strengthening the three pillars of the United Nations - security, development and human rights - we can build a more peaceful, more prosperous and…
— Ban Ki-moon
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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 Lippman
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Honor, justice and humanity call upon us to hold and to transmit to our posterity, that liberty, which we received from our ancestors. It is…
— John Dickinson
Who Wrote These Succeeding Generations Quotes
18 authors contributed a total of 19 Succeeding Generations Quotes as follows: