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Letter "G" » Generations
«It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations»
Author: Kahlil Gibran
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Generations,
Love
| Keywords:
affinity, companionship, courtship, created, generations, In a, in a moment, long, moment, offspring, persevered, perseveres, persevering, spiritual, spiritual being, The Offspring, wrong, years
«It is my firm belief that I have a link with the past and a responsibility to the future. I cannot give up. I cannot despair. There's a whole future, generations to come. I have to keep trying.»
«In case you're worried about what's going to become of the younger generation, it's going to grow up and start worrying about the younger generation»
Author: Roger Allen
| About:
Generations
«It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous.»
Author: Charles Dudley Warner
(Author, Editor)
| About:
Generations
| Keywords:
barbarous, comprehend, fortunate
«If you want happiness for a lifetime - help the next generation.»
Author: Chinese Proverbs
| About:
Generations,
Social service
| Keywords:
generation, help, lifetime, next, the next, The Next Generation
«It's one of nature's ways that we often feel closer to distant generations than to the generation immediately preceding us.»
«If you look deeply into the palm of your hand, you will see your parents and all generations of your ancestors. All of them are alive in this moment. Each is present in your body. You are the continuation of each of these people.»
Author: Thich Nhat Hanh
(Activist, Monk, Writer)
| About:
Family,
Generations,
Parents
| Keywords:
ancestors, continuation, deeply, generations, palm, palmed
«In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility - I welcome it.»
Author: John Fitzgerald Kennedy
(President)
| About:
Freedom,
Generations
| Keywords:
defending, generations, granted, History of, History of the, History of the world, maximum, role, shrink, shrink from, welcome
«If you succumb to the temptation of using violence in the struggle, unborn generations will be the recipients of a long and desolate night of bitterness, and your chief legacy to the future will be an endless reign of meaningless chaos.»
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader)
| About:
Future,
Generations,
Struggle,
Violence
| Keywords:
bitterness, desolate, desolated, desolating, legacy, recipients, reign, succumb, succumbed, succumbing, succumbs, unborn
«It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| About:
Age,
Generations
| Keywords:
acted, debts, generation, incumbent, incumbents, incumbent on, One half, principle, wars, World War I
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