Generations Quotes - Page 3

• The young very seldom lead anything in our country today. It's been quite some time since a younger generation pushed an older one to a higher standard.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Country, Marijuana, Today

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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

  Earth, Stewardship, Planets

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• It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

  Khalil Gibran

  Love, Spiritual, Emotional

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• Education : a debt due from present to future generations.

  George Peabody

  Education, Debt, Future Generation

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• There was a big question as to whether or not different generations have grown up differently

  Melissa Joan Hart

  Different, Bigs, Big Questions

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• Every few generations there are people who come along that change the way we look at the world, for musical enthusiasts Monk is one of these individuals.

  John Conyers

  People, Musical, Looks

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• My constituents in Kansas know the death tax is a duplicative tax on small businesses and family farms that, in many cases, families have spent generations building.

  Todd Tiahrt

  Kansas, Small Business, Building

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• The highly motivated young people who comprise the backbone of our military force truly are taking their place as one of America's greatest generations.

  Trent Lott

  Military, America, People

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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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• Grandchildren are the dots that connect the lines from generation to generation.

  Lois Wyse

  Grandma, Grandmother, Grandchildren

  Lois Wyse (2011). “Funny, You Don't Look Like a Grandmother”, p.39, Harmony

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• Politicians all too often think about the next election. Statesmen think about the next generation.

  Linda Lingle

  Thinking, Next, Election

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• Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.

  Joseph Joubert

  Iron, Chains That Bind, Memorial

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• My sister and my brother, of whom I have not spoken before, were considerably older than I; it seemed almost as if we belonged to different generations.

  Pierre Loti

  Brother, Different, My Sister

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• I suppose you think that persons who are as old as your father and myself are always thinking about very grave things, but I know that we are meditating the same old themes that we did when we were ten years old, only we go more gravely about it.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Father, Thinking, Years

  Henry David Thoreau (2006). “Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles”, p.19, Heron Dance Press

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• From education by the Church to education by Germanic value is a step of several generations.

  Alfred Rosenberg

  Church, Steps, Values

  "Book by Joachim Fest". Book by Joachim Fest, chapter 13, part 3, 1970.

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• Trouble is, kids feel they have to shock their elders and each generation grows up into something harder to shock.

  Ben Lindsey

  Inspirational, Growing Up, Teenager

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• The adolescents of my generation, greedy for life, forgot in body and soul about their hopes for the future until reality taught them that tomorrow was not what they had dreamed, and they discovered nostalgia.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Reality, Soul, Body

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• Our grandfathers had to run, run, run. My generation's out of breath. We ain't running no more.

  Stokely Carmichael

  Running, Grandfather, Breaths

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• I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Insanity, Mind, Naked

  "Howl" l. 1 (1956)

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• Music has been in our family for generations.

  Henry Garza

  Our Family, Has Beens

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• The debt that each generation owes to the past, it must pay to the future.

  Abigail Scott Duniway

  Helping Others, Past, Volunteer

  "Westward the Women". Book by Nancy Wilson Ross, Mar 15, 2016.

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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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• 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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• Who will take responsibility for raising the next generation?

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Responsibility, Next, Taking Responsibility

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• If you succumb to the temptation of using violence in the struggle, unborn generations will be the recipients of a long and desolate night of bitterness, and your chief legacy to the future will be an endless reign of meaningless chaos.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Peace

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