#dc

Hollow commitments to action in the future are insufficient. Deferring difficult issues must not be tolerated. Our children and grandchildren expect us to speak and act decisively. ↗

— Jenny Shipley

#action #children #commitments #decisively #deferring

Your sons weren't made to like you. That's what grandchildren are for. ↗

— Jane Smiley

#like #made #sons #weren #you

Never have children, only grandchildren. ↗

— Gore Vidal

#grandchildren #never #only

I like to put on hardcore when I have to clean my apartment, which I hate to do, but it's motivational. I like old heavy metal when I'm outside working on my car. Music has definite functions for me. ↗

— Peter Steele

#car #clean #definite #functions #hardcore

For the sake of our health, our children and grandchildren and even our economic well-being, we must make protecting the planet our top priority. ↗

— David Suzuki

#economic #even #grandchildren #health #make

The first choral music I remember hearing was Handel's 'Messiah' when the Mormon Tabernacle Choir broadcast it over the radio. ↗

— Dave Brubeck

#choir #first #hearing #i #i remember

The world is changing, and the Internet is about to become the next broadcast network. ↗

— Mark Burnett

#become #broadcast #changing #internet #network

The same music is playing on the radio in San Francisco, New York, Washington DC and Annapolis. Everywhere you go there's the same artists and same songs by them, over and over again. At some stations they play the same songs 50 to 60 times a week. ↗

— John Hall

#artists #dc #everywhere #francisco #go

Listening to a news broadcast is like smoking a cigarette and crushing the butt in the ashtray. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#broadcast #cigarette #crushing #like #listening

A short distance away is the Tidal Basin, ringed by cherry trees that every year produce flowers, an event to which Washingtonians react as though it were the Second Coming of Christ. ↗

— Dave Barry

#washington-dc #humor