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What is well rooted cannot be pulled up. What is firmly grasped will not slip loose. It will be honoured from generation to generation.
The Pledge of Allegiance was founded on ideals of religious freedom, and has been a valuable part of our national life for generations.
After so many years of whispery, DIY vocals, there's this new generation of voices that are really starting to burst through the seams.
The next generation has always been and will be better than the previous one. If it is not, then the world would not be moving forward.
As far as I know, we have never before decided to fight a war with borrowed money and ask generations that come after us to pay for it.
Protecting the environment is really important to everyone's welfare - that of our children, as well as that of the future generations.
I think the two-party system isn't working for us. And it hasn't worked for us for generations - let's be very, very honest about that.
What I learned in my time isn't necessarily being taught now, and I'd like to help impart that knowledge to a new generation of players.
I stand on the shoulders of heroines who never sought public acclaim but served as inspirations to the generations that came after them.
Generations to come will scarce believe that such a one as this ever in flesh and blood walked upon this earth. (said of Mahatma Gandhi)
I'm a huge Groucho fan. There were some great comic minds that would transfer into any generation, and Groucho is certainly one of them.
We have to let the younger generations take our music - and approach it the way they want - but just teach them where it all comes from.
It is a tragedy indeed that new generations, taking office, attribute failures in governance to insufficient power, and seek more of it.
Sensibility alters from generation to generation in everybody, whether we will or no; but expression is only altered by a man of genius.
A modern fascination with the fantastic seems to come along every couple of generations, usually at a point when we're future saturated.
There's a new generation of entrepreneurs in the Valley who have arrived since 2000, after the dotcom bust. They're completely fearless.
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 look at other members of my generation who have basically done one thing, and one thing well, and have been handsomely rewarded for it.
I belonged to the generation that grew up under National Socialism, and was blinded and led astray - and allowed itself to be led astray.
The greatest discovery of my generation is that we are unique. The greatest discovery of the next generation, I pray, is that we are one.
We've influenced other artists, and when younger generations become fans of those artists and hear about us, they discover our music too.
The teaching of one virtuous person can influence many; that which has been learned well by one generation can be passed on to a hundred.
It would be absolutely useless for any of us to work to save wildlife without working to educate the next generation of conservationists.
Science is the one human activity that is truly progressive. The body of positive knowledge is transmitted from generation to generation.
As Bob Marley says, 'We must carry on.' So he has left us a legacy of music to carry on for generations and generations into generations.
How should we begin to make amends for raising a generation obsessed with the pursuit of material wealth and indifferent to so much else?
I'm not too embarrassed to say I'm the definition of the target audience. This is my generation, the one of exalting music in album form.
I don't think it's going to be possible for the next generation of writers to tell stories without telling stories about telling stories.
My husband, Vivek Deora - he is very meticulous about cooking, and slowly and lovingly makes his family recipes, handed down generations.
You want to teach the next generation so they can learn a little bit faster and a little bit more so everything becomes that much better.
America's education system has become less a ladder of opportunity than a structure to transmit inequity from one generation to the next.
The poets of each generation seldom sing a new song. They turn to themes men always have loved, and sing them in the mode of their times.
We don't have to be that greedy generation that just continued to take down the underpinnings of what makes the planet work in our favor.
As the U.S. ambassador to Japan, I see this challenge of our younger generations not knowing each other as well as the prior generations.
It's a wonderful feeling to be a bridge to the past and to unite generations. The sport of baseball does that, and I am just a part of it.
A generation ago, the image was that you had to trample everyone else down to succeed; but I don't believe that makes good business sense.
In a few generations more, there will probably be no room at all allowed for animals on the earth: no need of them, no toleration of them.
We like to learn all we need from earlier generations, but we have to find out for ourselves what we need; nobody else can do that for us.
I feel sorry for generations of Labour voters and supporters who must look and wonder what on earth has gone wrong and what Labour is for.
I am dedicated to making sure Social Security will be there for future generations and have written legislation to strengthen the program.
When I get some time off, I like to go back to my roots in the North East. My family have been around Northumberland for five generations.
The so-called Beat Generation was a whole bunch of people, of all different nationalities, who came to the conclusion that society sucked.
Schooling, by definition, must be conservative. It is naturally dependent on an older generation’s level of knowledge and sense of values.
People come from a certain generation and a certain whole way of looking at things, and you really do become a prisoner of your own world.
Sunsets and death; death and therefore kisses, kisses and consequently birth and then death for yet another generation of sunset watchers.
When I started Doctor Who Steven Moffat said, "That's it for the rest of your life." I'll be Doctor to a whole generation when they're 50.
If anything is going to halt necessary investments in next generation networks it will be Congress dictating business models to companies.
Everything that you are taking advantage of, inventing and using, is still a generation or two behind when it comes to the U.S. government.
He that planteth a tree is a servant of God, He provideth a kindness for many generations, And faces that he hath not seen shall bless him.