#generations

The ultimate test of man's conscience may be his willingness to sacrifice something today for future generations whose words of thanks will not be heard. ↗

— Gaylord Nelson

#earth-day #future #gary-nelson #generations #heard

Hopefully, generations after us will continue to protect, preserve, and look after this wonderful land. ↗

— Wilford Brimley

#continue #generations #hopefully #land #look

I maintain that if there is such a thing as a true and honest environmentalist, it's people like Slim and hopefully me, who have been caretakers of the land all our lives, along with the generations before us. ↗

— Wilford Brimley

#been #before #caretakers #environmentalist #generations

And what's fascinating in The Ten Thousand Things is that although there's time, an inexorable time of the three generations of lives, actively present, but place is the time, time doesn't really have to do with simply the human experience of it. ↗

— Robert Creeley

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One thing that was passed on from generation to generation in my family, over seven generations in 200 years, was never give up. That's the way we live. ↗

— Nik Wallenda

#generation #generations #give #live #never

I was the girl who nobody thought would ever get married. I was going to be a fashion nun the rest of my life. There are generations of them, those fashion nuns, living, eating, breathing clothes. ↗

— Vera Wang

#clothes #eating #ever #fashion #generations

I have two children. I have a daughter 29, and a daughter four. They are 25 years apart, so you speak about generations and I must tell you, I have a philosophy and that is every 25 years I'm going to sire another child. ↗

— Burt Ward

#another #apart #child #children #daughter

Family businesses that have been around for generations are suddenly closing their doors, and while I'm not comparing my situation or my family's situations to theirs, the fact that my father's business, which has been around for 30 years, might not be around, it gives me a perspective that makes me want to fight even harder for a lot of people. ↗

— Alexi Giannoulias

#been #business #businesses #closing #comparing

It was both Abraham's and the Jews' privilege also that they should have this promise to all generations. ↗

— Thomas Goodwin

#also #both #generations #jews #privilege

All around us are the consequences of the most significant technological, and hence cultural, revolution in generations. ↗

— Lawrence Lessig

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