I plant a lot of trees. I am a great believer in planting things for future generations. I loathe the now culture where you just live for today.
It's a struggle but that's why we exist, so that another generation of Lesbians of color will not have to invent themselves, or their history, all over again.
My daddy expected that my brothers and I and our generation would make the world a better place. He had lived in an America of continual social progress.
My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our Cabernet stage.
Literature transmits incontrovertible condensed experience... from generation to generation. In this way literature becomes the living memory of a nation.
Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.
We have come to a turning point in the road. If we turn to the right mayhap our children and our children's children will go that way; but if we turn to the left, generations yet unborn will curse our names for having been unfaithful to God and to His Word.
I could never have imagined that firing 67 people on national television would actually make me more popular, especially with the younger generation.
History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.
Each new generation is a fresh invasion of savages.
If our language, our programs, our creations are not strongly present in the new media, the young generation of our country will be economically and culturally marginalized.
Maybe you are the "cool" generation. If coolness means a capacity to stay calm and use your head in the service of ends passionately believed in, then it has my admiration.
A science is any discipline in which the fool of this generation can go beyond the point reached by the genius of the last generation.
The great Jewish scientists and philosophers of the last few generations - Spinoza, Einstein, Freud, Robert Oppenheimer and others - were natives of Europe and America.
We are dealing with the best-educated generation in history. But they've got a brain dressed up with nowhere to go.
A man's liberal and conservative phases seem to follow each other in a succession of waves from the time he is born. Children are radicals. Youths are conservatives, with a dash of criminal negligence. Men in their prime are liberals (as long as their digestion keeps pace with their intellect). The middle aged run to shelter: they insure their life, draft a will, accumulate mementos and occasional tables, and hope for security. And then comes old age, which repeats childhood - a time full of humors and sadness, but often full of courage and even prophecy.
We must oppose programs that would take food from the mouths of younger generations to buy prescription drugs for old people, and we must do it... for the children.
The old know what they want; the young are sad and bewildered.
The moral code which was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for our children.
All change, all production and generation are effected through the word.
That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.
A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.
I believe we need to attract a new generation of the best and brightest to public service and I believe that government can be a source of inspiration, not degradation.
Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.
Each generation must go further than the last or what's the use in it?
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