Ada Louise Huxtable Quotes, History Quotes, Generations Quotes

Every generation tailors history to its taste.

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We live in freedom because every generation has produced patriots willing to serve a cause greater than themselves. Those who serve today are taking their rightful place among the greatest generations that have worn our nation's uniform.

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The mortal nature is seeking as far as is possible to be everlasting and immortal: and this is only to be attained by generation, because the new is always left in the place of the old.

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My generation of radicals and breakers-down never found anything to take the place of the old virtues of work and courage and the old graces of courtesy and politeness.

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

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Let us admit, without bitterness, that the individual has his distinct interests and can, without felony, stipulate for those interests and defend them. The present has its pardonable amount of egotism; momentary life has its claims, and cannot be expected to sacrifice itself incessantly to the future. The generation which is in its turn passing over the earth is not forced to abridge its life for the sake of the generations, its equals after all, whose turn shall come later on.

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Ere many generations pass, our machinery will be driven by a power obtainable at any point of the universe.

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I think I did in the sense that there's a whole generation coming up behind us that was engaged, inspired, worked for change during the course of my presidency, saw what was possible. And that generation, it's coming.

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A statesman is he who thinks in the future generations, and a politician is he who thinks in the upcoming elections.

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Concerning the generation of animals akin to them, as hornets and wasps, the facts in all cases are similar to a certain extent, but are devoid of the extraordinary features which characterize bees; this we should expect, for they have nothing divine about them as the bees have.

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You can rave about Stravinsky without the slightest risk of being classified as a lunatic by the next generation .

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What I'm interested in doing after I get out of the presidency is to make sure that I'm working with that next generation so that they understand you can't just rely on inspiration.

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

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We've got to stop the name-calling and we've got to stop looking at the next election. We've got to be focused on figuring out what we're doing for the next generation.

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

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You are all a lost generation. [with credit to Gertrude Stein]

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I love his music because he was my generation. But then again, Elvis is everyone's generation, and he always will be.

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Believe it, future generations.

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Ours is the first generation that has grown up with science-fiction ideas.

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

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