The eyes of all future generations are upon you. And if you choose to fail us, I say – we will never forgive you. – Greta Thunberg At UN climate action summit, New York, 23 September 2019.
A distant cousin sent me some genealogy report on my father’s side, and it’s sort of what I suspected. Coal miners for generations… four or maybe five generations. – Gina McKee
Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations. – Henry David Thoreau
I was born in Ludwigsburg, Wuerttemberg, in the southwestern part of the Federal Republic of Germany on July 18, 1948, as the elder son of Karl and Frieda Michel. My ancestors lived in that area for generations, mainly as farmers. – Hartmut Michel
The lessons of the past should steer us towards ensuring lasting legacies for generations yet to be born. – Hun Sen
The dwelling places of Europe have an air of inheritance, or cumulative possession – a hive occupied by generations of bees. – John Updike
Corporate tax dodging impacts us across generations and over time. It is corrosive. It is unethical. It is unsustainable. – James P. Hoffa
The seventeenth-century baby slept, as his nineteenth-century descendant does, in a cradle. Nothing could be prettier than the old cradles that have survived successive years of use with many generations of babies. – Alice Morse Earle
I’m so excited to be carrying on in Dad’s footsteps and making sure that everything he worked so hard for continues for the generations to come. – Bindi Irwin
From Dickens’s cockneys to Salinger’s phonies, from Kerouac’s beatniks to Cheech and Chong’s freaks, and on to hip hop’s homies, dialect has always been used as a way for generations to distinguish themselves. – Christopher Moore
I wrote ‘Bamboozled’ to expose and uncover the lies liberals have used for generations to exploit minorities for the vote. – Angela McGlowan
I’m 100% Norwegian. Three generations removed and all continuous inbreeding of Norwegian of Minnesota and Iowa, so I traveled to Norway before. – Eric Christian Olsen
The great Jewish scientists and philosophers of the last few generations – Spinoza, Einstein, Freud, Robert Oppenheimer and others – were natives of Europe and America. – David Ben-Gurion
That sense of sacredness, that thinking in generations, must begin with reverence for this earth. – Paul Tsongas
Genetic studies in Iceland have found that many of the women who were the founding stock of Iceland came from England and what is now France. Some were probably captured and carried off in Viking raids only 40 generations ago. – Keith Henson
All generations of teens have it hard, I think. Each society and century has its struggles that the others can’t compare to. – Lindsay Pearce
Genetics is about how information is stored and transmitted between generations. – John Maynard Smith
I’m enormously proud of the fact that Star Trek has really not just sparked an interest, but encouraged, a few generations of people to go into the sciences. – LeVar Burton
