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“one of the great weaknesses of the women's rights movement over the past two hundred years has been the tendency of its history to disappear, so that it must be resurrected for each new generation.”

Years Has Beens Two Past Rights Generations Movement Weakness Hundred Disappear Tendencies Womens Rights Over The Past New Generation

Author:Susan Jacoby

“Our Founding Fathers were the first to articulate the reasons for their First Amendment, the same reasons given by Learned Hand, and by Justice Brennan in New York Times v. Sullivan . It is a lesson we keep forgetting and must relearn in each succeeding generation.”

Firsts Reason Hands Father Given Justice Forget Generations New York Lessons Succeed Amendments Freedom Of Speech Founding First Amendment New York Times Our Founding Fathers

Author:Gilbert S. Merritt, Jr.

“Gentlemen, if ever a generation will come after us which is so weak and soft-hearted that it doesn't understand our task, then indeed the whole of National Socialism has been in vain. To the contrary, in my opinion one should bury bronze plates on which it is recorded that we have had the courage to carry out this great and so necessary work.”

Ifs Should Has Beens Whole Opinion Generations Tasks Weak Contrary Socialism Vain Gentleman Plates Hearted Bronze

Author:Odilo Globocnik

“From one generation to the next, The Beatles will remain the most important rock band of all time.”

Important Next Generations Rocks Band All Time Rock Bands

Author:Dave Grohl

“First generation Indian immigrants are mass guinea pigs. When a race that subsisted on plants for centuries subsists on a meat-dominated diet, it scares me to know what's in store for them”

Knows Firsts Race Generations Century Mass Plant Stores Indian Meat Diets Immigrants Scare Pigs Guinea Guinea Pigs

Author:Siddharth Katragadda

“Even the humblest men have a strange reason behind greed. Every man thinks money solves problems - and every man thinks not just of himself, but his next three generations - there is a probability he will live to see those generations - and he wants to care for them in times of strife.”

Thinking Men Want Reason Problem Care Three Next Behinds Generations Strange Greed Solve Every Man Strife Probability Three Generations

Author:Siddharth Katragadda

“If I cannot offer some relief to our world, if I cannot inspire our generation to join me, then I feel I am a complete waste of space. This constant fear of feeling irrelevant in our society has been the catalyst behind all my efforts and passions for as long as I can remember.”

“I feel it is our inherent duty as a humane society, above any intangible responsibility, to invest in our world's children's potential, passion and confidence.”

“The whole slacker generation totally didn't apply to us musically.”

Whole Generations Slacker

Author:Dave Grohl

“I have laid the stick that connects people together. Now it is up to you, your generation and the generations to come, to build upon that stick a bridge that will ensure the free sharing of information and teaching between the two peoples until the day we become united again as a single people, as we were once before; before men separated us with their imaginary political boundaries of today's Polynesia and Micronesia.”

People Men Two Today Together Political United Generations Teaching Information Sticks Boundaries Bridges Imaginary Up To You Single People Polynesia

Author:Mau Piailug

“your actions live after you till this globe is dissolved; they pass inevitably down as an inheritance from one generation to another. ... decency and integrity, courage and compassion, are always well worth while; they are not lost, but pass on down the generations; we are indeed the heirs of all the ages.”

Wells Age Action Lost Compassion Generations Integrity Globes Inheritance Decency Heirs

Author:Phyllis Bentley

“Southerners have been known to stay over the Fourth and not get home before Thanksgiving. Some oldtimers take in overnight guests and keep them through three generations.”

Has Beens Home Three Known Generations Guests Fourth Southerner Three Generations

Author:Mary Ellen Snodgrass

“I am sick of war. Every woman of my generation is sick of war. Fifty years of war. Wars rumored, wars beginning, wars fought, wars ending, wars paid for, wars endured.”

Years War Generations Sick Paid Fifty My Generation

Book:The Inland Island

Source: The Inland Island

“a victor's peace is usually vindictive and stirs up a passion for revenge a generation or so later.”

War Passion Generations Revenge Vindictive Victor's

Book:It Occurred to Me

Source: It Occurred to Me

“Myths, legends and stories are the signposts previous generations have left us so we don't have to figure out our own personal journey in solitude! They have to be metaphorical, because their interpretation will be different for each individual life!”

Different Stories Individual Left Generations Journey Figures Solitude Myth Interpretation Legends Metaphorical Individual Life Previous Generations Signposts Personal Journey

Author:Fred Van Lente

“Children are 25 percent of the population but 100 percent of the future. If we wish to renew society, we must raise up a generation of children who have strong moral character. And if we wish to do that, we have two responsibilities: first, to model good character in our own lives, and second, to intentionally foster character development in our young.”

Source: Character Matters: How to Help Our Children Develop Good Judgment, Integrity, and Other Essential Virtues

“I am Emperor, my descendants will be numerous. From the second generation to the ten thousandth, my line will not end.”

Ends Lines Generations Ten Emperor Descendants

Author:Qin Shi Huang

“I always wanted to be a young mom, but generations of women have worked so hard so we can have a career and wait to have children. So I say carpe diem - take advantage of that.”

Children Hard Wanted Young Waiting Careers Generations Mom Advantage Carpe Diem Carpe

Author:Brittany Murphy

“To the American people I bid a fond farewell. Guard your liberties. It is the trust of each generation to pass a free republic to the next. And if I know you right, you will rouse yourself from slumber to ensure exactly that.”

People Ifs Knows Next Liberty Generations Republic Farewell Slumber

Author:Ambrose Evans-Pritchard

“There may never be a baby book that offers the conclusive answer to every question, but it's possible to extract some wisdom from the suffering of past generations of parents. Does the book you're reading contradict itself repeatedly, require you to override all your parental instincts, or send you into a panic over your own inadequacy? If so, burn it.”

Ifs May Doe Book Past Suffering Reading Parent Answers Generations Baby Offers Instinct Over You Panic Parental Inadequacy Past Generations

Author:Libby Copeland

“We need the next generation to be motivated and to push technological boundaries, to seek out new innovations.”

Needs Next Generations Innovation Boundaries Motivated Technological Next Generation

Author:Buzz Aldrin

“At some point in every person's life, you will need an assisted medical device - whether it's your glasses, your contacts, or as you age and you have a hip replacement or a knee replacement or a pacemaker. The prosthetic generation is all around us.”

Needs Persons Age Generations Glasses Medical Contact Hips Knees Devices Replacements Prosthetics Pacemakers

Author:Aimee Mullins

“I wanted to work with Cate Blanchett. She is one of the five greatest movie actresses of her generation.”

Wanted Five Generations Actresses Greatest Movie

Author:Alec Baldwin

“My ultimate goal is for that next generation coming up, who didn't see me play, go, 'Oh, he used to play football?'”

Play Used Next Goal Generations Football Ultimate Next Generation Ultimate Goal

Author:Michael Strahan

“Woe to those who spit on the beat generation, the wind will blow it back.”

Enemy Generations Wind Beats Blow Woe Spit Beat Generation Beatnik Amorality

Author:Bill Vaughan

“Sony is a clear leader in the digital camera and camcorder categories. As Sony continues to develop next-generation video and still image capture technologies, the demand for high speed, large capacity, small form factor memory cards will grow as well.”

“All change, all production and generation are effected through the word.”

Generations Productions

Author:Bill Vaughan

“My studio is a laptop. Everybody I work with is the same. We make computer music, we're the laptop generation.”

Generations Computer Studios Laptops

Author:David Guetta

“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.”

Ifs Way House White Responsibility Economy Generations Dog Smart Daughter Mess Barack White House Future Generation Very Smart

Author:Jay Leno

“My parents always went to rallies and demonstrated against certain things; my generation, we often have a political conscience, but we're not that involved.”

Political Certain Parent Generations Involved Conscience My Generation

Author:Daniel Bruhl

“Comprehensive climate legislation must be passed so that we can ensure a world where this and future generations can experience the bliss of breathing clean crisp air, while fishing in the Adirondacks... and being able to eat the fish afterwards.”

World Able Generations Air Clean Climate Fishes Breathing Bliss Fishing Legislation Future Generation Comprehensive Crisps

Author:Gloria Reuben

“The younger generation can smell fakes - Authenticity trumps cool.”

Generations Trump Smell Authenticity Fake Younger Generation

Author:Craig Groeschel

“Science progresses not by convincing the adherents of old theories that they are wrong, but by allowing enough time to pass so that a new generation can arise unencumbered by the old errors.”

Enough Progress Generations Theory Errors Arise Allowing Convincing Enough Time New Generation

Author:Max Planck

“Queen songs are not about the life of a rock star - they tend to be about the lives of normal people, which is why I think the songs connect so much. We're very lucky that they seemingly connect with every generation.”

People Thinking Song Stars Generations Rocks Lucky Normal Queens Rock Star Queen Song

Author:Brian May

“I was doing a play out in L.A. 20-some-odd years ago called 'Goose and Tomtom' by David Rabe, and somebody saw it and the next thing I know I'm doing the table read of the film version of 'Glengarry Glen Ross' with Al Pacino and Jack Lemmon - one of the great films of our generation.”

Knows Years Play Film Next Saws Generations Years Ago Tables Versions Odd Als Geese Our Generation Great Film

Author:Richard Schiff

“Im mad keen on recycling because Im worried about the next generation and where all this waste were producing is going. It has to stop. I wash out my plastic containers and recycle envelopes, everything I possibly can.”

Next Generations Waste Mad Worried Plastic Next Generation Recycling Envelopes Containers

Author:Cherie Lunghi

“My parents, products of the Great Depression, were successful people, but lived in a state of constant fear that my sister and I, and they, would sink into the kind of economic insecurity that their generation knew so well.”

People Wells Kind States Parent Successful Generations Economic Products Constant Insecurity My Sister Successful People Great Depression Insecurity And Fear

Author:Ben Stein

“More and more good actors are now transmigrating into the videogame space and playing roles there because it's where my generation of kids get stories from.”

Stories Kids Actors Space Roles Generations My Generation Good Actors Videogame Playing Roles

Author:Andy Serkis

“I think there will always be a particular generation of actors who think that they're going to be replaced by robots. But certainly the emerging actors understand that that's part of the craft.”

Thinking Actors Generations Particular Crafts Replaced Robots Emerging

Author:Andy Serkis

“The martial spirit is never dead. It sleeps through fortunate generations, but it wakes up very quickly to the toot of a fife. There's that roistering spirit in men which leads them to think a good fight is a lark - until they've been in one. And the impulse to fight for your own incarnation of an ideal.”

Thinking Men Spirit Fighting Sleep Generations Ideals Wake Up Impulse Fortunate Incarnation Good Fight Larks

Book:Within this Present

Source: Within this Present

“Sometimes in the history of art it is possible to describe a period or a generation of artists as having been obsessed by a particular problem.”

Art Sometimes Problem Artist Generations Particular Periods Obsession Obsessed

Author:Alfred H. Barr, Jr.

“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.”

“I would almost consider myself a canonical child of Generation X... because I think there is an ethic and aesthetic that goes along with that generation, it may have something to do with the fact that "Never Mind the Bollocks" was released when we were 16-years-old and that was really the album that crystalized a generation.”

Thinking Years Mind May Children Facts Generations Ethics Albums Aesthetic Generation X

Author:Mark Pesce

“Basically, to sum up: We're a generation of anarchists, and we just haven't gotten our hands on the means of production yet so we can fetter the wheels. We haven't been handed the controls yet except to the Internet, which is why it looks like it does.”

Looks Mean Doe Hands Generations Havens Internet Productions Wheels Anarchist Fetters

Author:Mark Pesce

“From laboratories employing complex apparatus, poetry often emerges into the outside world after a long lapse of time, just as some scientific discoveries become common property only after they have entered the blood stream of the generations.”

World Long Common Generations Blood Discovery Property Complexes Streams Laboratory Outside World Lapses Scientific Discovery Employing

Author:Mieczyslaw Jastrun

“each age stands on the shoulders of the one that has gone before, and out of the revolt of the old is fashioned the new.”

Age Gone Generations Shoulders Revolt

Book:Out of the Flame

Source: Out of the Flame

“each generation devises better ways to survive. Civilization may, in one sense, be a tribute to the ingeniousness of some children in outwitting parents.”

Way May Children Parent Generations Civilization Survival Better Ways Tribute Outwitting

Author:Lucy Freeman

“A transplanted Irishman, German, Englishman is an American in one generation. A transplanted African is not one in five!”

United States Five Generations Racism Englishmen Irishmen

Author:Barbara Chase-Riboud

“The great Jewish scientists and philosophers of the last few generations - Spinoza, Einstein, Freud, Robert Oppenheimer and others - were natives of Europe and America.”

Lasts America Generations Europe Scientist Philosopher Spinoza Europe And America

Author:David Ben-Gurion

“Neither a garden nor a gardener can be made in one year, nor in one generation even.”

Years Made Generations Garden Gardening Gardener

Book:The garden of a commuter's wife

Source: The garden of a commuter's wife

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