Raising The Next Generation Quotes & Sayings

God put us here to prepare this place for the next generation. That's our job. Raising children and helping the community, that's preparing for the next generation. — Dikembe Mutombo

The most important business of one generation is the raising of the next generation. Nothing else you do in life will be as deeply satisfying ... — George Will

Life affords no greater responsibility, no greater privilege, than the raising of the next generation — C. Everett Koop

Like a lot of Irish households we read a lot of Irish history. It was almost Soviet, raising the next generation with a mythic view of their history. — Fiona Shaw

the front seat with his alarm again ringing furiously. "Are you all right?" shouted Milo. "Umphh," grunted Tock. "Sorry to get carried away, but I think you get the point." As they drove along, Tock continued to explain the importance of time, quoting the old philosophers and poets and illustrating each point with gestures that brought him perilously close to tumbling headlong from the speeding automobile. — Norton Juster

But on the other hand, if you come under circumstances where each person is entitled to a pro-rata share of the pot, to take an extreme example, or even to a low level of the pie, than the effect of that situation is that free immigration, would mean a reduction of everybody to the same, uniform level. Of course, I'm exaggerating, it wouldn't go quite that far, but it would go in that direction. And it is that perception, that leads people to adopt what at first seems like inconsistent values. — Milton Friedman

Does this bring more joy into the world, or does it diminish joy in the world? — Alan Cohen

The twins turned out well, not because of anything that Craig or his wife did but because of the kind of people they are. Good, decent people who always put the needs of their children ahead of their own. It was never more complicated than love, one generation raising a better version of the next. — Jung Yun

Sometimes it's nice to remember the little things. — A.D. Aliwat

Who will take responsibility for raising the next generation? — Ruth Bader Ginsburg

For me, the Beatles are proof of the existence of God. — Rick Rubin

What he could bear in the waking world he could not by night and he sat awake for fear the dream would return. — Cormac McCarthy

The truth of it is that every singer out there with songs on the radio is raising the next generation, so make your words count. — Taylor Swift

I think that I'm always trying to get beyond the surface appearance of things, to go beyond what I can just see. — Andy Goldsworthy

We love and care for oodles of people, but only a few of them, if they died, would make us believe we could not continue to live. Imagine if there were a boat upon which you could put only four people, and everyone else known and beloved to you would then cease to exist. Who would you put on that boat? It would be painful, but how quickly you would decide: You and you and you and you, get in. The rest of you, goodbye. — Cheryl Strayed

I always knew one thing, that life is made bearable and possible and liveable by the relations of one human being to another, the individual love and gentleness between persons, or in any case, the unbreakable bond that grows and fastens lives together in all sorts of mysterious ways ... — Katherine Anne Porter