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Last updated on December 19, 2024.
A young painter who cannot liberate himself from the influence of past generations is digging his own grave.
I thought, possibly, that what I really needed was to go where nobody knew me and start over again, with none of my previous decisions, conversations, or expectations coming with me.
Human life moves only in one direction - toward disease, damage, and death. The best you can hope for is to remain stagnant or, in certain cases, return to a previous condition when things weren't as bad as they've become for you.
I rarely, if ever, had another book in mind while I was writing the previous book. Each book starts from ashes, really.
Floating upward through a confusion of dreams and memory, curving like a trout through the rings of previous risings, I surface. My eyes open. I am awake.
I will fight for budget honesty and eliminating the deficit to reduce the transfer of debt to younger generations.
Author: A fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenting generations to come.
We are facing an external attack against us, which is more dangerous than any other previous wars... We are dealing with those who are extremists, who only know the language of killing and criminality.
What I'd like to do is be able to work with Democrats to reform current entitlement programs for future generations, grandfathering all the grandparents.
Our veterans connect generations and Canadians. As a country and as individuals, we gain in pride and in purpose from their deeds and their service.
A modern fascination with the fantastic seems to come along every couple of generations, usually at a point when we're future saturated.
To finally become world champion after losing out in three previous finals is very satisfying. It shows that if you stick to your goals and work hard, you can achieve them in the end.
I'm honored to be recognized among generations of astronauts who were at the forefront of exploring our universe for the benefit of humankind.
In a few generations you can breed a racehorse. The recipe for making a man like Delacroix is less well known.
We need to instill the values that are important for future generations, and above all we have to show boys how to respect women.
When you stop doing something, it doesn't mean you are rejecting the previous work. That's the mistake; it's not rejecting it, it's saying, 'I have exploited it enough now and I wish to take a look at another corner.'
My work is as an ethnographic rescuer: a conduit between past and future generations. The urgency of this effort cannot be overstated.
Obviously, the skaters in generations before us didn't have the opportunity to win multiple medals at an Olympic Games. We recognize that.
The white cliffs of Dover are a significant landmark and it is so encouraging to know that they will now be protected for future generations.
The value of the beans for oil production, as well as for human food, has become recognized so quickly and so generally during the past year that the crop has acquired a commercial standing far in excess of its previous status.
I don't believe that anyone can see the Grand Canyon area for themselves and not know that we have to do everything we can to protect it for future 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.
The Stamp Act was to go into operation on the first day of November. On the previous morning, the 'New Hampshire Gazette' appeared with a deep black border and all the typographical emblems of affliction, for was not Liberty dead?
Our adult personality is a mirror image of who we were in the last stage of our life in our previous incarnation.
Most people who have been enlightened in previous incarnations normally begin to regain their past-life enlightenment around the age of twenty-nine, when their astrological Saturn return takes place.
Survival, in the cool economics of biology, means simply the persistence of one's own genes in the generations to follow.
Corporate tax dodging impacts us across generations and over time. It is corrosive. It is unethical. It is unsustainable.
When a technology is replaced by another technology, the previous technology either becomes art or it dies.
If we are born under a lucky star, it shows that we have earned the good fortune thereby Indicated, by forethought, kindness, and our other virtues expressed in previous lives, for we cannot have friends unless we are friendly ourselves.
Generations to come will find it difficult to believe that a man such as Gandhi ever walked the face of this earth.
Home sales are coming down from the mountain peak, but they will level out at a high plateau - a plateau that is higher than previous peaks in the housing cycle.
So far, the only major accomplishment of the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) protesters is that they have finally put an end to their previous initiative, Occupy Our Mothers' Basements.
We are the sowers - our children are those who reap. We labor so that future generations will be better and nobler than we are.
Knowledge must be gained by ourselves. Mankind may supply us with facts; but the results, even if they agree with previous ones, must be the work of our own minds.
When you have a child, your previous life seems like someone else's. It's like living in a house and suddenly finding a room you didn't know was there, full of treasure and light.
Being an Israeli is to know that you have risen from the ashes of those who were killed and knowing you have a responsibility for the coming generations.
I believe the history of American music is just as important as anything political because it's changed generations of people.
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.
Future generations should feel proud of our accomplishments in space...We are destined to explore and colonize the universe.
I've had the experience of going through homophobia in my work, and I can share my experiences so future generations don't have to deal with what I've dealt with.
We need to have a vision of the world we want to create so that we can see ourselves as collaborators with future generations in the project of shaping it.
There are generations yet unborn, whose very lives will be shifted and shaped by the moves you make and the actions you take.
We live in a disposable society. We throw so much away. But it doesn't come from nowhere. It comes from the planet and it comes from future generations' lives.
I recognize the unknowing, involuntary effect that 'Facts of Life' had and continues to have on several generations of people.
With each change of definition in art, something considered non-art or bad art by a previous generation is suddenly acceptable.
Feb. 9, 1999 Dear Friend, Without your previous support, Bill Clinton and I would not have won our victories for the American people in 1992 and 1996. ... And to win in 2000, I need you by my side.
[Donald Trump] has shifted - President [Barack] Obama has shifted American policy in a much more critical way in Israel with the settlements than the previous presidents.
Audie Murphy remains a shining example for anyone who believes in the importance of service, for generations now and into the future.
Generations of human beings were transformed into machines in the relentless pursuit of material wealth: We lived to work.
Soon afterwards I studied the inversion of sugar in the light of these considerations and immediately found that this classical reaction, too, was determined quantitatively by the same property of the acids, as was of course to be expected from the previous results.
It is my hope that visitors, artists, and students from around the world will experience all that MoMA has to offer for generations to come.
I come from an immigrant culture. I'm only a couple of generations away from having been a servant girl myself.
If we continue to approach problems from the perspective of temporary expediency, future generations will face tremendous difficulties.
There is no way to turn off this global economy, nor should one try. Every previous expansion of global capitalism has led to greater prosperity across the world.
We lost so many talented artists and writers from the generations before ours that we're really lacking older figureheads.
We must begin thinking like a river if we are to leave a legacy of beauty and life for future generations.
Music is a big part of the director's life; Ms. Coppola's previous feature, a screen adaptation of 'The Virgin Suicides,' was informed more substantially by the score by the group Air than by the narrative.
Unless we take action on climate change, future generations will be roasted, toasted, fried and grilled.
I tend to edit some as I go - partly because one of the reasons I don't outline much is that I don't know what the next scene will be until I've actually written the previous scene.
The Granite State has a long and proud tradition of public service, and we have to ensure that it stays that way for generations to come.
