#generation

Is the minor convenience of allowing the present generation the luxury of doubling its energy consumption every 10 years worth the major hazard of exposing the next 20,000 generations to this lethal waste? ↗

— David R. Brower

#consumption #convenience #doubling #energy #energy consumption

Perhaps most ridiculous of all is the suggestion that we 'keep' our radioactive garbage for the use of our descendants. This 'solution', I think, requires an immediate poll of the next 20,000 generations. ↗

— David R. Brower

#garbage #generations #i #i think #immediate

I've heard though that there is a younger generation of tonal French composers who are reacting with vigour. ↗

— Gavin Bryars

#french #generation #heard #i #reacting

The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generation. ↗

— Pearl S. Buck

#after #attempt #enough #generation #impossible

It's very strange that most people don't care if their knowledge of their family history only goes back three generations. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#back #care #family history #generations #goes

We got Martha Stewart legitimizing homemaking for her generation, and then there's this return to being interested in all things home, lifestyle, and food again. I think this generation is less about the frills and more about the flavor of things. ↗

— Nadia Giosia

#again #all things #being #flavor #food

I think one of the nicest things that we created as a generation was just the fact that we could say, 'Hey, I don't like white people.' ↗

— Nikki Giovanni

#created #fact #generation #hey #i

I am proud of the hip hop generation. They are good business people and, actually, good people. ↗

— Nikki Giovanni

#am #business #business people #generation #good

I was the Marlon Brando of my generation. ↗

— Bette Davis

#generation #i #marlon #marlon brando #my generation

I know if I were in your generation I would be really tired of seeing Sophia Loren as a sex object. ↗