Top 110 Future Generations Quotes

My own view is that being a vegetarian or vegan is not an end in itself, but a means towards reducing both human and animal suffering and leaving a habitable planet to future generations.
Peter Singer
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.
Justin Tranter
Anyone who is passionate about what they do will have a better chance of connecting with future generations than those who simply follow transient trends. At least their work will have a distinctive character, and this is what people respond to, I believe.
Giorgio Armani
I joined the Safe Climate Caucus because I believe in leaving a safer planet for future generations.
Mark Pocan
On Earth Day, we celebrate all the gifts the world and nature make available to us. We recognize our complete dependence on its bounty. And we acknowledge the need for good stewardship to preserve its fruits for future generations.
John Hoeven
I think my job is to leave some evidence for future generations that there was somebody who cared while we were destroying everything.
Hope Jahren
My main argument is that environmental destruction comes when people externalise their costs and pass them on to future generations. That is obviously something that large enterprises do and they become large by doing it.
Roger Scruton
Why shouldn’t future generations and young Americans have the choice to earn a higher rate of return? Why shouldn’t they be able to own their own Social Security so that Congress can’t spend it on other things?
Ken Mehlman
As our parents planted for us, so will we plant for our children. When Charlie and I began our philanthropic journey, we wanted to focus our resources on planting seeds that would help perpetuate Jewish values and traditions for future generations and also contribute to repairing our world.
Lynn Schusterman
Most times, Mother Earth’s resources are used up without the realisation that these thoughtless actions might just be the root cause for the hardships future generations may face. It is everyone’s responsibility to hand over a green, clean, and healthy environment to them.
Tulsi Tanti
Lake Tahoe is a California treasure and we must do everything we can to protect it for future generations.
Alex Padilla
I have argued about the future of fiction with jaded novelists, far-seeing postmodernists, technologists, television critics. The argument that future generations will not know the pleasures of the novel has been a staple of book reviewing since at least 1960.
Russell Smith
We are borrowing money from future generations. We are borrowing the carbon impact, the resource impact from future generations to get stuff cheap now. We have swept the dirt and dust from our society under the carpet – but this carpet is on other side of the planet.
Kevin McCloud
Let us make future generations remember us as proud ancestors just as, today, we remember our forefathers.
Roh Moo-hyun
Nationalism is a major issue. If the country is safe, m

Nationalism is a major issue. If the country is safe, my children will be safe and so will be the future generations. We want a safe and strong nation so that no enemy country can stare us down.
Ravi Kishan
Everyone archetypally is a parent to future generations.
Marianne Williamson
The byproduct of the main thrust to protect the biodiversity of a given place is that you get especially young people out to the parks, because it will be future generations that will have to value these landscapes and these ecosystems and make sure that nobody is changing the law.
Douglas Tompkins
It is up to us to live up to the legacy that was left for us, and to leave a legacy that is worthy of our children and of future generations.
Christine Gregoire
Social Security is a program that should be strengthened and preserved for future generations.
Diane Watson
In light of these facts Republicans have put forth a variety of proposals to make Social Security remain solvent for future generations. But up to this point, Democrats have chosen to oppose our good faith efforts and insist that indeed there is no problem.
John Doolittle
I launched The Emeril Lagasse Foundation to provide culinary training, and developmental and educational programs to children in the cities where my restaurants operate. I think everyone has a responsibility to give back to the community if they can, and to help future generations learn new skills.
Emeril Lagasse
I plant a lot of trees. I am a great believer in planting things for future generations. I loathe the now culture where you just live for today.
Penelope Keith
We’re busily wrecking the chances for future generations at a rapid rate of knots by not recognizing the damage we’re doing to the natural environment, bearing in mind that this is the only planet that we know has any life on it.
Prince Charles
We are too quickly losing important landscapes in this country to development – and I worry that if we do not act to protect them now, future generations will grow up in a profoundly different world.
Louis Bacon
If our nation is to rebuild opportunity for future generations, it will require our elected leaders to realize that their responsibility lies not with their political party, but rather with the American people that they have been chosen to represent.
Ami Bera
Strong, enforceable environmental protections will not only help protect our planet for future generations, it will also level the playing field for small-and-medium-sized U.S. businesses by raising environmental standards.
Suzan DelBene
But there is a need to explore ways we can preserve the promise of Social Security for future generations.
Sue Kelly
The U.S. can become carbon neutral in our lifetimes. In the process, we will put millions of Americans to work, make our companies more competitive, and shield our communities from extreme weather. And we will honor our obligation to leave the world a better place for future generations.
Frances Beinecke
Remember, your vote is not a wasted vote. Vote with your heart and think about the future generations the next time you vote.
Fabrizio Moreira
It is our job, as members of parliament, to legislate with an eye to the long term future, to look over the horizon beyond the next election and ensure that as far as we can what we do today will make Australia a better place, a safer place, for future generations to live in.
Malcolm Turnbull
Investing in women’s lives is an investment in sustainable development, in human rights, in future generations – and consequently in our own long-term national interests.
Liya Kebede
I would like Kansas be a place that future generations feel comfortable staying here.
Laura Kelly
Many families would like to avoid burdening future generations with inherited diseases such as haemophilia or severe developmental disorders. But most would think it wrong to edit the genes that influence the ‘normal’ range of human variation, from eye colour to intelligence or athletic ability.
Mark Walport
In the ultimate analysis, all of us would have served Pakistan better if history and our future generations judge us positively.
Ashfaq Parvez Kayani
Each additional idea is a gift to the future. Each additional idea producer is a source of wealth for future generations.
Ramez Naam
As we face tough decisions in Washington, we must never forget our responsibility to protect Medicare and preserve it for future generations.
Bill Foster
We need to instill the values that are important for future generations, and above all we have to show boys how to respect women.
Charlene, Princess of Monaco
There should be restriction on migration. Some people may criticize me for that. But the future generations will see the merit in my argument.
Raj Thackeray
Governance has been at the heart of the work of the Oxford Martin Commission for Future Generations and is a clear focus in its report, ‘Now for the Long Term.’
Mo Ibrahim
As Members of Congress and people of conscience, we must work to overcome the indifference and distortions of history, and ensure that future generations know what happened.
Jerry Costello
Future generations will know there’s nothing mystical about wetware because by 2100, Moore’s law will have given us tiny quantum computers powerful enough to upload a human soul.
Frank Tipler
I have the responsibility to translate peace and stability for future generations.
Nadia Murad
With the continued support of citizens who refuse to accept inaction at the expense of future generations, we will lead the world toward a sustainable future.
Diana DeGette
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
If we are to ensure that healthcare remains affordable and widely available for future generations, we need to radically rethink how we provide and manage it – in collaboration with key health system partners – and apply the technology that can help achieve these changes.
Frans van Houten
It is a wonderful honor to receive the Audubon Medal fr

It is a wonderful honor to receive the Audubon Medal from the National Audubon Society, which for more than a century has fought tirelessly to protect and preserve our natural resources and environment for future generations.
Louis Bacon
Future generations of economists will look at the trickle-down theory in much the same way we now look at witch burning, slavery, and the Sinclair C5.
John Niven
Part of what makes South Carolina so beautiful is the land we conserve for wildlife and for future generations.
Jaime Harrison
The power to mould the future of the Republic will be in the hands of the journalists of future generations.
Joseph Pulitzer
As founder and co-chair of the upper Mississippi River Congressional task force, I have long sought to preserve the river’s health and historical multiple uses, including as a natural waterway and a home to wildlife, for the benefit of future generations of Americans.
Ron Kind
Future generations are not going to ask us what political party were you in. They are going to ask what did you do about it, when you knew the glaciers were melting.
Martin Sheen