#generations

Republicans say they want citizenship to truly mean something. Let's be equal-opportunity about it and test everyone, including those very Republicans and others whose forbears came here generations ago. ↗

— Eric Liu

#ago #came #citizenship #everyone #generations

For generations, people have come to U.S. shores to seek opportunity. It's what my grandfather did a century ago, when he came to Seattle, and worked as a houseboy just one mile from the Washington State governor's mansion that I was privileged to inhabit for eight years. ↗

— Gary Locke

#came #century #come #did #eight

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. ↗

— Marie Louise

#earth #few #generations #more #need

Thus the sum of things is ever being reviewed, and mortals dependent one upon another. Some nations increase, others diminish, and in a short space the generations of living creatures are changed and like runners pass on the torch of life. ↗

— Lucretius

#being #changed #creatures #dependent #diminish

Gay people - generally speaking - have a responsibility to our own community and to future generations of gay people to come out, if and when we feel that we can. ↗

— Rachel Maddow

#community #feel #future #future generations #gay

Each generation should be made to bear the burden of its own wars, instead of carrying them on, at the expense of other generations. ↗

— James Madison

#burden #carrying #each #expense #generation

In Iroquois society, leaders are encouraged to remember seven generations in the past and consider seven generations in the future when making decisions that affect the people. ↗

— Wilma Mankiller

#consider #decisions #encouraged #future #generations

Families don't make projects for five years, they make projects for generations. ↗

— Achille Maramotti

#five #generations #make #projects #years

It is worthwhile for anyone to have behind him a few generations of honest, hard-working ancestry. ↗

— John Phillips Marquand

#anyone #behind #few #generations #hard-working

When I was nine I spent a lot of my time reading books about the history of comedy, or listening to the Goons or Hancock, humour from previous generations. ↗

— Paul Merton

#books #comedy #generations #history #humour