Generations Quotes - Page 71

By looking at climate change as a clean energy generation problem, we're setting ourselves up not to solve it.

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

One generation might like you, then 15 years later the next is responding to somebody else.

We can't negotiate the facts. We can't negotiate the truth about the situation. And for those who are too fearful to finish, it can be done and must be done. Make sure we succeed, . . . It is wrong for this generation to destroy the habitability of our planet and ruin the prospects of every future generation.

We have a planetary emergency. We have to find a way to create, in the generation of those alive today, a sense of generational mission.

I'm from the Vietnam generation. I didn't serve.

I don’t want the next generation to fight the same fight as I did.

The contemporary historian never writes such a true history as the historian of a later generation.

I say to this generation: "We must encourage these kids." Tell them they are wonderful and capable. Be their cheerleader. And when they don't get what they want, say, "Okay, sweetheart, yours is coming. Let's help you get it." Be there 100% for them.

I don't want to succumb to the idea that for the generation, or generations, raised on television, the text is irrelevant or so intimidating that they won't deal with it. If you teach, you see this is not true. It may be that newer generations do not worship the text as some of their elders do.

We are all fixing what is broken. It is the task of a lifetime. We'll leave much unfinished for the next generation.

May our children and our children's children to a thousand generations, continue to enjoy the benefits conferred upon us by a united country, and have cause yet to rejoice under those glorious institutions bequeathed us by Washington and his compeers.

Our strife pertains to ourselves-to the passing generations of men-and it can without convulsion be hushed forever with the passing of one generation.

We can still maintain our coasts and oceans for the generations to come, who deserve what we have.

People should make a stand for the things they love and want to see survive infinite generations.

I have to say, this sounds like the worst idea in a thousand generations of bad ideas." "You haven't heard all our ideas." Luke & Bhindi Drayson