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The Whorl, whose inhabitants keep watch for an outsider ~ Kim Stanley Robinson
Generation Ships quotes by Kim Stanley Robinson
The journey of a thousands suns begins today.

Some may question whether the journey is worth the sacrifice and danger.

To them I say that no sacrifice is too dear and no danger too great to ensure the very survival of our human species.

What will we find when we arrive at our new homes? That's an open question. For a century, deep-space probes have reported alien lifeforms, but thus far none of which we recognize as intelligent beings. Are we the only biological intelligence in the universe? Perhaps our definition of intelligence is too narrow, too specio-centric.

For, are not trees intelligent, who know to shed their leaves at the end of summer? Are not turtles intelligent, who know when to bury themselves in mud under ice? Is not all life intelligent, that knows how to pass its vital essence to new generations?

Because half of intelligence resides in the body, be it plant or animal.

I now commend these brave colonists to the galaxy, to join their minds and bodies to the community of living beings they will encounter there, and to establish our rightful place among the stars. ~ David Marusek
Generation Ships quotes by David Marusek
What Dad taught me above all else, and did so utterly unconsciously, was why people like him became Tories. He had been poor. He was working class. He aspired to be middle class. He worked hard, made it on his merits, and wanted his children to do even better than him. He thought – as did many others of his generation – that the logical outcome of this striving, born of this attitude, was to be a Tory. Indeed, it was part of the package. You made it; you were a Tory: two sides of the same coin. It became my political ambition to break that connection, and replace it with a different currency. You are compassionate; you care about those less fortunate than yourself; you believe in society as well as the individual. You can be Labour. You can be successful and care; ambitious and compassionate; a meritocrat and a progressive. These are entirely compatible ways of making sure progress happens; and they answer the realistic, not utopian, claims of human nature. ~ Tony Blair
Generation Ships quotes by Tony Blair
Mr. Micawber. 'The ocean, in these times, is a perfect fleet of ships; and we can hardly fail to encounter many, in running over. It is merely crossing,' said Mr. Micawber, trifling with his eye-glass, 'merely crossing. The distance is quite imaginary.' I think, now, how odd it was, but how wonderfully like Mr. Micawber, that, when he went from London to Canterbury, he should have talked as if he were going to the farthest limits of the earth; and, when he went from England to Australia, as if he were going for a little trip across the channel. 'On the voyage, I ~ Charles Dickens
Generation Ships quotes by Charles Dickens
There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful. ~ Fernando Pessoa
Generation Ships quotes by Fernando Pessoa
The Haisla named this point Obela. Not so long ago, the bay was lined with longhouses and canoes, totem poles and fishing gear. The reserve was once a winter village, a place to celebrate the sacred season, when memories passed in dance and song and stories from one generation to the next with great feasts called potlatches. ~ Eden Robinson
Generation Ships quotes by Eden Robinson
Being an artist and a musician, I have witnessed the previous generation taking the art form, not as a way of making a living, but as a belief, an almost maniacal, sometimes insane devotion and commitment to communication. ~ David Finckel
Generation Ships quotes by David Finckel
Women of my generation were given the lavish gift of our own agency by feminism - a belief that we could decide for ourselves how we would live, what would become of us. ~ Ariel Levy
Generation Ships quotes by Ariel Levy
True religion is a universal and (necessarily) ego-transcending psycho-physical motivation of human beings. However, up to the present stage in human history, only relatively few individuals in any generation have been willing and able to make the gesture that is true religion (or, otherwise, true esotericism). In their great numbers, most people have, up to now, never yet been ready or willing to adapt to the true (and progressive) practical, moral, devotional, Spiritual, and Transcendental Wisdom-culture of right life. ~ Adi Da
Generation Ships quotes by Adi Da
President Wilson says a leader must treat public opinion the way a sailor deals with the wind, using it to blow the ship in one direction or another, but never trying to go directly against it. ~ Ken Follett
Generation Ships quotes by Ken Follett
What I like best about baseball is the continuity. Generation after generation can follow the game and get the same satisfactions year after year and bring to it the same interest and spirit. I want to take that with me into the next century. ~ Dan Shaughnessy
Generation Ships quotes by Dan Shaughnessy
I ... express a wish that you may, in your generation, be fit to compare to a candle; that you may, like it, shine as lights to those about you; that, in all your actions, you may justify the beauty of the taper by making your deeds honourable and effectual in the discharge of your duty to your fellow-men. ~ Michael Faraday
Generation Ships quotes by Michael Faraday
In the 1940s women were changing from home to hospital where they gave birth alone and thus birth became a mystery to the next generation. ~ Robert A. Bradley
Generation Ships quotes by Robert A. Bradley
(I'm a child of the wired generation, unlike some of the suits hereabouts who have their secretaries print everything out and dictate their replies for an audio-typist to send.) ~ Charles Stross
Generation Ships quotes by Charles Stross
I'm a fan boy when it comes to Michael Buble. He's just so good at 'it'. He's got a voice of this generation, but he's like a time capsule; he's got a voice that could have fit in anywhere over the last hundred years. It's stellar. ~ Robbie Williams
Generation Ships quotes by Robbie Williams
We love WWII because the cause was so obviously just, because you can't be a good person and say you wouldn't fight against an evil like that. It was so black and white on our side, and on our side so few died. (Our side meaning the lantern-jawed John Wayne Greatest Generation constantly canonized soldiers who strode in late to the graveyard that was Europe. Compared to Jewish, Russian, Roma, and other casualties, our losses were minimal.) We felt so strong. In some ways I think we're always trying to recapture that feeling of being a country of superheroes. With every war we invoke that one, we hope it will be that good.
-from her blog ~ Catherynne M Valente
Generation Ships quotes by Catherynne M Valente
Thus the great drama of universal life is perpetually sustained; and though the individual actors undergo continual change, the same parts are ever filled by another and another generation; renewing the face of the earth, and the bosom of the deep, with endless successions of life and happiness. ~ William Buckland
Generation Ships quotes by William Buckland
But the most common species of love is that which first arises from beauty, and afterwards diffuses itself into kindness and into the bodily appetite. Kindness or esteem, and the appetite to generation, are too remote to unite easily together. The one is, perhaps, the most refined passion of the soul; the other the most gross and vulgar. The love of beauty is placed in a just medium betwixt them, and partakes of both their natures: From whence it proceeds, that it is so singularly fitted to produce both. ~ David Hume
Generation Ships quotes by David Hume
One of the great responsibilities we have as a society is to educate ourselves, along with the next generation, about which substances are worth ingesting, and for what purpose, and which are not. ~ Sam Harris
Generation Ships quotes by Sam Harris
Every writer is a writer of the generation before. ~ Wilfrid Sheed
Generation Ships quotes by Wilfrid Sheed
Our parents are the coolest parents ever. No other generation went on from writing letters to their own parents to sending snapchats to their own kids. ~ Sharad Vivek Sagar
Generation Ships quotes by Sharad Vivek Sagar
The generation that destroys the environment is not the generation that pays the price. That is the problem. ~ Wangari Maathai
Generation Ships quotes by Wangari Maathai
Heaven speed the canvas, gallantly unfurl'd, To furnish and accommodate a world, To give the Pole the produce of the sun, And knit the unsocial climates into one. ~ William Cowper
Generation Ships quotes by William Cowper
A creator is so completely contemporary that he has the appearance of being ahead of his generation. ~ Gertrude Stein
Generation Ships quotes by Gertrude Stein
Feminism is a way of understanding reality, not just a series of things to do. Feminism challenges our predilection for one right answer, one right God, one size fits all.
As a feminist, one can be spiritual or secular. One can lead an outwardly conservative life and yet, in feminist terms, be profoundly radical. So too, feminist leaders (like everyone else) can be sexist, or racist, or class-blind, in either their professional or personal lives. Or in both.
Feminist of my generation told the truth about women's condition. We were messengers from the past, or from the future. As ever, some people thought that killing, or at least defaming, the messengers was a way of making us and our truths disappear.
I'm counting on you not to do that. ~ Phyllis Chesler
Generation Ships quotes by Phyllis Chesler
The Aussies have spent so much time basking in the glory of the last generation that they have forgotten to plan for this one. It's just like the West Indies again; once their great names from the 1970s and 80s retired, the whole thing fell apart.

The way things are going, the next Ashes series cannot come too quickly for England. What a shame that we have to wait until 2013 to play this lot again. ~ Geoffrey Boycott
Generation Ships quotes by Geoffrey Boycott
I'm a third generation superstar. ~ Randy Orton
Generation Ships quotes by Randy Orton
I do take a computer to do some processing live and I might use a couple of plug-in synthesisers, 'cause obviously you can take quite a lot of power in terms of sound generation on a computer that I can trigger from a couple of keyboards. And it means I don't have to take some of my vintage stuff and have it trashed by various airlines which has happened in the past. But I still take some vintage stuff with me, I'll take that risk because I like using all that stuff. ~ Thighpaulsandra
Generation Ships quotes by Thighpaulsandra
We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now. ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Generation Ships quotes by Martin Luther King, Jr.
The steady expansion of welfare programs can be taken as a measure of the steady disintegration of the Negro family structure over the past generation in the United States. ~ Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Generation Ships quotes by Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Your generation - you've not heard the Verve or Jimi Hendrix or Eminem, you've not read The Catcher in the Rye, you've not seen a classic film like Terminator or Blade Runner. All you've done is read dross, listen to crap and watch Disney movies with happy endings. And what kind of generation have we produced? A slow, simple, dull one who never questions anything. A stunted generation. It's devolution because in order for society to progress, you need to be able to debate ideas, to question, to see the dark and the light in things ~ Sam Mills
Generation Ships quotes by Sam Mills
When people say they don't understand my generation, I like to point out that it's not "my" generation. I'm only co-owner with a 50% stake. ~ Jarod Kintz
Generation Ships quotes by Jarod Kintz
I trembled to think of a world without stars. No guide for the sailor to trust at see, no jewels to dazzle our sense of beauty [ ... ] But all around the globe, the air is so dirty and the lights from the cities are so bright that for some people few stars can be seen anymore. A generation of children may grow up seeing a blank sky and asking, Did there used to be stars there? ~ Michael Jackson
Generation Ships quotes by Michael Jackson
Law is the rudder of the ship of state. ~ Austin O'Malley
Generation Ships quotes by Austin O'Malley
I knew very little about 'Spider-Man'. I grew up more in the 'Superman' generation. 'Spider-Man' - I didn't know so much. But it is a really successful franchise, and I'm happy to be involved with it. ~ Willem Dafoe
Generation Ships quotes by Willem Dafoe
From one generation to the next, The Beatles will remain the most important rock band of all time. ~ Dave Grohl
Generation Ships quotes by Dave Grohl
If I were born in other generation, I would be a singer rapper, dancing is also ... I was famous as a good dancer. My dancing skill was just hided by other members better skill. ~ Yesung
Generation Ships quotes by Yesung
Each generation criticizes the unconscious assumptions made by its parent. It may assent to them, but it brings them out in the open. ~ Alfred North Whitehead
Generation Ships quotes by Alfred North Whitehead
And she wanted him. And anyway, once a mermaid saved a man, wasn't he destined to be her true love, with weddings on ships or private islands and happily-ever-afters filled with music and sparkles and talking fish? ~ Kerry Adrienne
Generation Ships quotes by Kerry Adrienne
True prayer is the trading of the heart with God, and the heart never comes into spiritual commerce with the ports of heaven until God the Holy Ghost puts wind into the sails and speeds the ship into its haven. ~ Charles Spurgeon
Generation Ships quotes by Charles Spurgeon
What is buried in the past of one generation falls to the next to claim. ~ Susan Griffin
Generation Ships quotes by Susan Griffin
The withdrawal of philosophy into a "professional" shell of its own has had disastrous consequences. The younger generation of physicists, the Feynmans, the Schwingers, etc., may be very bright; they may be more intelligent than their predecessors, than Bohr, Einstein, Schrödinger, Boltzmann, Mach and so on. But they are uncivilized savages, they lack in philosophical depth – and this is the fault of the very same idea of professionalism which you are now defending. ~ Paul Karl Feyerabend
Generation Ships quotes by Paul Karl Feyerabend
I want to sit around a Gypsy campfire, eating freshly caught rabbit in the company of bare knuckle fighters, and listen to stories about their fights. I want to sit with King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table after they've defeated the barbarians in battle. I want to be there when Arthur pulls Excalibur from the stone, and I want to be surrounded by dragons, wizards and sorcerers. I want to meet the Muslim leader, Saladin, who occupied Jerusalem in 1187, and despite the fact that a number of holy Muslim places had been violated by Christians, preferred to take Jerusalem without bloodshed. He prohibited acts of vengeance, and his army was so disciplined that there were no deaths or violence after the city surrendered. I want to sit around the desert campfire with him.
I want to drink with Caribbean buccaneers of the 17th century and listen to their tales of preying on shipping and Spanish settlements. I want to witness Celtic Berserkers fighting in ritual warfare in a trance-like fury. I want to spend time working on a scrap cruise, the very last cruise before the ship's due to be scrapped, so there's no future in it, and it attracts all the mad faces of the Merchant Navy. Faces that are known in that industry, who couldn't survive outside 'the life' and who for the most part are quite dangerous and mad themselves. I'd rather have one friend who'll fight like hell over ten who'll do nothing but talk shit. And I want to ride with highwaymen on ribbons of moonlight ~ Karl Wiggins
Generation Ships quotes by Karl Wiggins
Hence a ship is said to head the sea, when her course is opposed to the setting or direction of the surges. ~ William Falconer
Generation Ships quotes by William Falconer
I have an illogical affinity for 'Star Trek: The Next Generation.' ~ John Joseph Adams
Generation Ships quotes by John Joseph Adams
Watching a coast as it slips by the ship is like thinking about an enigma. There it is before you, smiling, frowning, inviting, grand, mean, insipid, or savage, and always mute with an air of whispering, "Come and find out". ~ Joseph Conrad
Generation Ships quotes by Joseph Conrad
Something is missing, and it's something not so easy to name as semiabsent husbands, not so easy to point to as a lack of work, or too much work, or a lack of adequate child care. It's the sense that life should have led up to more than it has. A sense that after all the hard work, for all our achievements as individuals and as a "postfeminist" generation, life should be better than this. ~ Judith Warner
Generation Ships quotes by Judith Warner
Thats what a ship is, you know. Its not a keel and a hull and a deck and sails. Thats what a ship needs. But what a ship is. What the Black Pearl really is ... is freedom. ~ Johnny Depp
Generation Ships quotes by Johnny Depp
I believe this generation should know their history and they should know that the struggle's not over yet. ~ Mary J. Blige
Generation Ships quotes by Mary J. Blige
We all belong to the C Generation-the connecting generation in the digital age. ~ Pearl Zhu
Generation Ships quotes by Pearl Zhu
The unfinished business will always come after you. Whatever you fail to kill will hunt your children, or the next generation. ~ Samuel T. Padmore
Generation Ships quotes by Samuel T. Padmore
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