#generations

We can no longer afford the war in Iraq. Our financial costs have already passed a third of a trillion dollars; the lifetime costs for this war, in both human and economic terms, will be borne by Americans for generations to come. ↗

— Earl Blumenauer

#already #borne #both #come #costs

My grandfather was born in India and three generations of my family served there. ↗

— Rupert Everett

#family #generations #grandfather #india #served

When William the Conqueror commissioned a great survey of his English realm at Gloucester in 1085, the result was a work so thorough, fair, dispassionate, and wide-ranging that it seemed to the succeeding generations to have come from another world. ↗

— James Buchan

#come #commissioned #conqueror #dispassionate #english

Since the Revolution, eight generations of America's veterans have established an unbroken commitment to freedom. ↗

— Steve Buyer

#commitment #eight #established #freedom #generations

Who's to say that there is any more support for Freud's psychoanalytic concept of the superego than there is for that old time religion that asserted that there is a God who ordains what is right and wrong, and that His righteousness endures for all generations? ↗

— Tony Campolo

#asserted #concept #endures #freud #generations

For in this century, within the next decades, will be decided for generations whether all mankind is to become Communist, whether the whole world is to become free, or whether, in the struggle, civilization as we know it is to be completely destroyed or completely changed. ↗

— Whittaker Chambers

#century #changed #civilization #communist #completely

For generations, even many otherwise decent white Southerners learned to despise black people. ↗

— Linda Chavez

#decent #despise #even #generations #learned

I was one of the first generations to watch television. TV exposes people to news, to information, to knowledge, to entertainment. How is it bad? ↗

— Tom Clancy

#entertainment #exposes #first #generations #how

These are challenging times at home and around the world. We will have to work together in a bipartisan spirit and with our international partners if we are going to achieve progress and peace now and for future generations. ↗

— Susan Collins

#around #bipartisan #challenging #challenging times #future

It took us a long time to find out that we had been lied to by our parents' generation. The moralities that were followed during our parents' generation were basically arbitrary. This caused a rift between the two generations, which was brought on by the beatniks. ↗

— Peter Fonda

#basically #beatniks #been #between #brought