{"quotes":[{"text":"A great teacher plants the seeds of greatness in the minds of future generations.","author":"Debasish Mridha","tags":["debasish-mridha","debasish-mridha-md","future-generations","great-teachers","inspirational","philosophy","quotes","seeds-of-greatness","teacher-appreciation"],"id":22008,"author_id":"Debasish+Mridha"},{"text":"IT (The country) IS HEADED TOWARD OVERSIMPLIFICATION. YOU WANT TO SEE A PRESIDENT OF THE FUTURE? TURN ON ANY TELEVISION ON ANY SUNDAY MORNING - FIND ONE OF THOSE HOLY ROLLERS: THAT'S HIM, THAT'S THE NEW MISTER PRESIDENT! AND DO YOU WANT TO SEE THE FUTURE OF ALL THOSE KIDS WHO ARE GOING TO FALL IN THE CRACKS OF THIS GREAT, BIG, SLOPPY SOCIETY OF OURS? I JUST MET HIM; HE'S A TALL, SKINNY, FIFTEEN-YEAR-OLD BOY NAMED 'DICK.' HE'S PRETTY SCARY. WHAT'S WRONG WITH HIM IS NOT UNLIKE WHAT'S WRONG WITH THE TV EVANGELIST - OUR FUTURE PRESIDENT. WHAT'S WRONG WITH BOTH OF THEM IS THAT THEY'RE SO SURE THEY'RE RIGHT! THAT'S PRETTY SCARY - THE FUTURE, I THINK, IS PRETTY SCARY.","author":"John Irving","tags":["future-generations","future-prediction","humor","politicians","politics","president","stupidity"],"id":31429,"author_id":"John+Irving"},{"text":"If you abandon your two glasses of wine, it is to show your children, your friends, and your society that your life is not only for yourself. Your life is for your ancestors, future generations, and also your society. To stop drinking two glasses of wine every week is a very deep practice, even if it has not brought you any harm. That is the insight of a bodhisattva who knows that everything she does is done for all her ancestors and future generations... In modern life, people think that their body belongs to them and they can do anything they want to it... This is one of the manifestations of individualism. But, according to the teaching of emptiness, your body is not yours. Your body belongs to your ancestors, your parents, and future generations. It also belongs to society and to all other living beings. All of them have come together to bring about the presence of this body--the trees, clouds, everything. Keeping your body healthy is to express gratitude to the whole cosmos, to all ancestors, and also not to betray the future generations,' (64-65).","author":"Thich Nhat Hanh","tags":["alcohol","future-generations"],"id":55141,"author_id":"Thich+Nhat+Hanh"},{"text":"We the caregivers, have the power to do things proactively to benefit our present and future generations.","author":"Betsy L. Stone","tags":["family","family-relationships","future-generations"],"id":62935,"author_id":"Betsy+L.+Stone"},{"text":"People speak broken Swahili on purpose. Business people for instance will speak Sheng – a mixture of Swahili and English – because that’s what people want to hear. And what is the government doing? They speak broken Swahili most of the time. Swahili is getting lost and I am really sorry for the future generations.","author":"Enock Maregesi","tags":["broken-swahili","business","business-people","english","future-generations","government","hear","lost","people","purpose","sheng","sorry","speak","swahili"],"id":77476,"author_id":"Enock+Maregesi"},{"text":"Future is not dark, future is not bright! Future simply does not exist yet, neither dark nor bright!","author":"Mehmet Murat ildan","tags":["bright","dark","future","future-generations","future","future","murat-ildan","turkish-literature","turkish-writers"],"id":82740,"author_id":"Mehmet+Murat+ildan"},{"text":"If everyone takes one action for peace every day, our future generations will be able to enjoy peace.","author":"Debasish Mridha","tags":["debasish-mridha","debasish-mridha-m-d","enjoy-peace","future-generations","inspirational","peace","philosophy","quotes"],"id":92048,"author_id":"Debasish+Mridha"},{"text":"How promising today's generation is. They can whip out their cellular phones like sheep, instantly take a million digital photos of their cat and then just delete them. But I'd like to see these kids try to artfully use a traditional film camera or make a super 8 home movie. Traditional film takes integrity, nostalgia, effort, patience and imagination - things that the 21st century has very little of. Everything these days, even a superior medium like film photography with an extensively vivid history and an iconic meaning, is becoming disposable in this age.","author":"Rebecca McNutt","tags":["21st-century","art","canon","cat","cell-phone","chemicals","classic","digital","earth-day","film","freedom","fujifilm","future","future-generations","history","imagination","kodachrome","kodak","lab","magic","nikon","nostalgia","nostalgic","old-school","photo","photography","polaroid","reel","roll","selfie","sheeple","super-8","taste","texting","world"],"id":95291,"author_id":"Rebecca+McNutt"},{"text":"Can these signs and symbols still speak? Images, memories, stories, and objects all carry the past into the present. As we think about these messages from the past, we might wonder, too, about what kind of signs we are leaving for the future. How will our children's children know of us? What markers of our passing do we leave upon the land? Some of these signs, because of the material they're made from, or the care taken in making them, may last longer than others and have different stories to tell.","author":"Ari Berk \u0026 Carolyn Dunn","tags":["children","future","future-generations","messages","past","signs"],"id":105295,"author_id":"Ari+Berk+%26+Carolyn+Dunn"},{"text":"..The family motto, after all, is 'To Have and To Hold'. We were always a warrior breed, but we don't fight solely for lands and material wealth. There's an understanding, drummed into all of us from our earliest years, that success-true success-means capturing and holding , something more. That something more is the future-to excel is very well, but one needs to excel and survive. To seize lands is well and good, but we want to hold them for all time. Which means creating and building a family-defending the family that is, and creating the next generation. Because it's the next generation that's our future. Without securing that future, material success is no real success at all.","author":"Stephanie Laurens","tags":["family","future-generations","wealth"],"id":107996,"author_id":"Stephanie+Laurens"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":42,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}