Future Generation Quotes - Page 15

• I have always stressed to my girls that outer beauty fades but inner beauty lasts forever. Simple things like smiling and looking people in the eye could change someone's bad day into a good one. My mom always said that beauty is as beauty does, and I'm sure it will pass along to all the future generations of our family.

  Tina Knowles

  Girl, Mom, Bad Day

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• With our parents we bury our past, with our children our future.

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

  Children, Past, Parent

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• The Aga Khan Award for Architecture seeks to make a better place in physical terms. This means trying to bring values into environments, buildings, and contexts that improve the quality of life for future generations.

  Aga Khan IV

  Mean, Awards, Trying

  Interview with Robert Ivy, www.architecturalrecord.com. February 1, 2002.

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• I do not personally want to believe that we already know the equations that determine the evolution and fate of the universe; it would make life too dull for me as a scientist. ... I hope, and believe, that the Space Telescope might make the Big Bang cosmology appear incorrect to future generations, perhaps somewhat analogous to the way that Galileo's telescope showed that the earth-centered, Ptolemaic system was inadequate.

  John N. Bahcall

  Believe, Knowledge, Fate

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• But if we come back, if German men come back, if British men come back, and Japs, and French, and all the other men, all of us talking, writing, painting, making movies of heroes, and cockroaches and foxholes and blood, then future generations will always be doomed to future Hitlers. It's never occurred to boys to have contempt for wars, to point to soldiers' pictures in history books, laughing at them. If German boys had learned to be contemptuous of violence, Hitler would have had to take up knitting to keep his ego warm.

  J. D. Salinger

  War, Book, Hero

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• I see nothing wrong ethically with the idea of correcting single gene defects through genetic engineering. But I am concerned about any other kind of intervention, for anything else would be an experiment, which would impose our will on future generations and take unreasonable chances with their welfare ... Thus such intervention is beyond the scope of consideration.

  Ian Wilmut

  Engineering, Ideas, Would Be

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• I don't know anything more piggish - I don't know anything more un-American than saying, 'Oh, I'm worried about my own little handout or my own little program or my own little economy and we'll kick this can down the road and let some future generation deal with it.

  Todd Rokita

  Generations, Littles, Worried

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• I don't get a sense that Cheers is revered the way it should be by [younger viewers]. In my mind, it's a show that should always, always, always be in the pantheon. But can it ever mean to future generations what it meant to us?

  Ted Danson

  Cheer, Mean, Mind

  "The Best TV Show That's Ever Been". Interview with Brian Raftery, www.gq.com. September 27, 2012.

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• We are the sowers - our children are those who reap. We labor so that future generations will be better and nobler than we are.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Generations, Labor

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• There is a possibility that your ability as a player may well be analysed by future generations on your one day statistics. That's the day I dread most.

  Allan Border

  Player, One Day, Generations

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• I think future generations will see the invention of the Internet as having been as important as the invention of the printing press. It’s the democratizing tool of all tools. As long as no one can control the flow of information, then freedom always has a chance.

  Marianne Williamson

  Thinking, Long, Important

  "Marianne Williamson on Consciousness, Women and Politics". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 9, 2012.

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• If future generations ask us what we are fighting for [in World War Two], we shall tell them the story of Lidice.

  Frank Knox

  War, Fighting, Two

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• We do not wish incorrect and unsound doctrines to be handed down to posterity under the sanction of great names, to be received and valued by future generations as authentic and reliable, ... Errors in history and doctrine, if left uncorrected by us who are conversant with the events, and who are in a position to judge of the truth or falsity of the doctrines, would go to our children as though we had sanctioned and endorsed them.

  Brigham Young

  Children, Names, Errors

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• Barack Obama's daughters are very smart. They told him they will take the same responsibility for the dog that he is taking for the economy. That way, if the dog leaves a mess in the White House, it'll be cleaned up by future generations.

  Jay Leno

  Daughter, Dog, Smart

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• Prophecy is rash, but it may be that the publication of D.T. Suzuki's first Essays in Zen Buddhism in 1927 will seem to future generations as great an intellectual event as William of Moerbeke's Latin translations of Aristotle in the thirteenth century or Marsiglio Ficino's of Plato in the fifteenth.

  D.T. Suzuki

  Plato, Latin, Buddhism

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• Mothers have as powerful an influence over the welfare of future generations as all other earthly causes combined.

  John Stevens Cabot Abbott

  Mother, Powerful, Causes

  John Stevens Cabot Abbott (1833). “The mother at home: or, The principles of maternal duty familiarly illustrated”, p.159

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• It is the Fourth Instinct (the spirit - RJ) that urges us to exceed ourselves ... by awakening our intuitive selves, and striving to be all that we were intended to be. It takes us beyond self-centeredness and enables us to resist the combined forces of indifference and meaninglessness. It awakens us to a sense of responsibility for those most in need of our society as well as for that world that future generations will inherit.

  Arianna Huffington

  Responsibility, Self, World

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• It is true that one of the first acts of tyrants is to erase history, to wipe out the recorded memory of a people. With that in mind, it's important to remember that the work that we do as writers, artists and performers will form an essential part of the collective memory that future generations will draw upon. And so we owe it to those future generations to defend that memory and be honest witnesses to our times.

  Rene Balcer

  Memories, Artist, Collective Memory

  Speech to the "Central Academy of Fine Arts" in Beijing, December 8, 2009.

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• The Conservation Buck Challenge was designed to engage and mobilize the hunting community to preserve the outdoor experience for future generations. Our members will be ambassadors for ethical hunting, respect for private property rights, support for conservation funding and programs that give our children the chance to learn the valuable lessons of nature.

  Gary Morris

  Children, Hunting, Rights

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• All I am asking is that we follow the golden rule: "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." This is fundamentally a moral issue, not an economic issue. Given what we know now, it is simply unethical to impose risk of grave damage on future generations just so that we can have a few more consumer products today.

  Ken Caldeira

  Issues, Risk, Growth

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• Many say exploration is part of our destiny, but it's actually our duty to future generations and their quest to ensure the survival of the human species.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Destiny, Space, Survival

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• Like all disciplines where information is shared and work contributes to their advancement, cuisine should be no different. The kitchen is our life, and we are available to share. We want to share our work so that future generations can cook and create a more efficient, easy and unquestionable quality.

  Ferran Adria

  Discipline, Cooking, Kitchen

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• I often wonder whether real conversation in real time may eventually give way to these sanitized and easier screen dialogues, in much the same way as killing, skinning and butchering an animal to eat has been replaced by the convenience of packages of meat on the supermarket shelf… Perhaps future generations will recoil with similar horror at the messiness, unpredictability and immediate personal involvement of a three-dimensional, real-time interaction.

  Susan Greenfield, Baroness Greenfield

  Real, Animal, Giving

  "Scientist: Social Networking Sites Harming Kids Brains", www.foxnews.com. February 24, 2009.

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• Today we celebrate Earth Day. I exhort everyone to see the world through the eyes of God the Creator: the earth is an environment to be safeguarded, a garden to be cultivated. The relationship of mankind with nature must not be conducted with greed, manipulation and exploitation, but it must conserve the divine harmony that exists between creatures and Creation within the logic of respect and care, so it can be put to the service of our brothers, also of future generations.

  Pope Francis

  Brother, Eye, Garden

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• If you want to do your best for future generations of humanity, for your friends and family, you must begin by taking good care of yourself.

  Tarthang Tulku

  Family, Future, Compassion

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