Future Generation Quotes

• Future generations will judge us
  not by what we say, but what we do.

  Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

  Judging, Generations

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• It is up to us to live up to the legacy that was left for us, and to leave a legacy that is worthy of our children and of future generations.

  Christine Gregoire

  Children, Feminist, Legacy

  Christine Gregoire's Inaugural Speech in Olympia, Washington, awpc.cattcenter.iastate.edu. January 12, 2005.

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• The ultimate test of a man's conscience may be his willingness to sacrifice something today for future generations whose words of thanks will not be heard.

  Gaylord Nelson

  Sacrifice, Grandchildren, Men

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• Our death is not an end if we can live on in our children and the younger generation. For they are us; our bodies are only wilted leaves on the tree of life.

  Albert Einstein

  Life, Death, Wisdom

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.91, Princeton University Press

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• I guarantee that the seed you plant in love, not matter how small, will grow into a mighty tree of refuge. We all want a future for ourselves and we must now care enough to create, nurture and secure a future for our children.”

  Afeni Shakur

  Love, Inspirational, Children

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• But if future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than with sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as God really made it, not just as it looked when we got through with it.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Gratitude, Nature, Patriotic

  "Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States".

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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 I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Life, Happy

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• Let the future say of our generation that we sent forth mighty currents of hope and that we worked together to heal the world.

  Jeffrey Sachs

  Change, Hope, Future

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• 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 generations.

  Blythe Danner

  Children, Future, Responsibility

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• This is the true joy in life: Being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one, being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it what I can. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Selfish, True Joy, Long

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• Future generations are not going to ask us what political party were you in. They are going to ask what did you do about it, when you knew the glaciers were melting.

  Martin Sheen

  Party, Political, Environmental

  Interview with David Kupfer, progressive.org. July 1, 2003.

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• Let us make future generations remember us as proud ancestors just as, today, we remember our forefathers.

  Roh Moo-hyun

  Generations, Proud, Today

  "Roh Moo-Hyun's Inauguration Speech". February 25, 2003.

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• I believe that children are our future. Unless we stop them now.

  Matt Groening

  Children, Believe, Future

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• Those of us who witness the degraded state of the environment and the suffering that comes with it cannot afford to be complacent. We continue to be restless. If we really carry the burden, we are driven to action. We cannot tire or give up. We owe it to the present and future generations of all species to rise up and walk!

  Wangari Maathai

  Giving Up, Suffering, Generations

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• [American Citizenship] captures the enduring idea that this country only works when we accept certain obligations to one another and to future generations

  Barack Obama

  Country, Ideas, Generations

  Fourth Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 12 February 2013, Washington, D.C.

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• The right to have our environment protected for the benefit of present and future generations is our most important human right.

  Lewis Gordon

  Important, Generations, Benefits

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• Use your lives wisely, my friends, and conserve these precious freedoms for future generations.

  Ted Nugent

  Generations, Use, My Friends

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• It is my firm belief that I have a link with the past and a responsibility to the future. I cannot give up. I cannot despair. There's a whole future, generations to come. I have to keep trying.

  King Hussein I

  Giving Up, Future, Responsibility

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• I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Kwanzaa, True Joy, Privilege And Responsibility

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• Future generations will look back on TV as the lead in the water pipes that slowly drove the Romans mad.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Funny, Mad, Water

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• Every generation has the obligation to free men's minds for a look at new worlds . . . to look out from a higher plateau than the last generation.

  Ellison Onizuka

  Responsibility, Men, Space

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• Planning ahead is a measure of class. The rich and even the middle class plan for future generations, but the poor can plan ahead only a few weeks or days.

  Gloria Steinem

  Class, Planning Ahead, Goal

  Gloria Steinem (2012). “Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions”, p.272, Open Road Media

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• If we care about the children, the grandchildren, the future generations, we need to make sure that they do not become the cannon fodder of the future.

  Helen Thomas

  Children, Needs, Generations

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• I feel like I have at least begun to make a contribution, but my most significant concern has to do with whether my actual art will be preserved for future generations or be erased.

  Judy Chicago

  Art, Generations, Immortality

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• We owe at least this much to future generations, from whom we have borrowed a fragile planet called Earth.

  Maurice Strong

  Generations, Earth, Stewardship

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