James G. Watt (1938) United States Secretary of the Interior
Testimony before the House Interior Committee (5 February 1981)
1980s
“Let’s have a toast—to the future generation of consumers, however many heads or assholes they have!”
— Brian W. Aldiss, book Greybeard
Source: Greybeard (1964), Chapter 4 (p. 112)
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Alex Haley (1921–1992) African American biographer, screenwriter, and novelist
TIME interview (1977)
Context: Just look at the scores of thousands of housing tracts in this country, where only parents and children live. Think of the impact on these children who will grow up without close proximity to grandparents. There are certain things that a grandmammy or a granddaddy can do for a child that no one else can. It's sort of like Stardust — the relationship between grandparents and children. The lack of this for many children has to have a negative impact on society. The edges of these children are a little sharper for the lack of it. … I tell young people to go to the oldest members of their family and get as much oral history as possible. Many grandparents carry three or four generations of history in their heads but don't talk about it because they have been ignored. And when the young person starts doing this, the old are warmed to the cockles of their souls and will tell a grandchild everything they can muster.
Larry Ellison (1944) American internet entrepreneur, businessman and philanthropist
Statement in 1999, as quoted in "Oracle's Talking: Should You Be Listening?" by Jeff Sweat in Information Week (7 February 2000) http://www.informationweek.com/772/oracle.html.
“I think I have this responsibility to my father’s generation, and especially future generations.”
Ai Weiwei (1957) Chinese concept artist
2010-, Ai Weiwei: 'Every day I think, this will be the day I get taken in again...', 2011
“Many's a long night I've dreamed of cheese — toasted mostly.”
Robert Louis Stevenson book Treasure Island
Source: Treasure Island (1883), Ch. 15, The Man of the Island.
“Our toast in general is,—Magna Charta, the British Constitution,—PITT and Liberty forever!”
William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham (1708–1778) British politician
"A Son of Liberty in Bristol County, Mass.", Newport Mercury (19 May, 1766) on the repeal of the Stamp Act.
C. Rossiter, Seedtime of the Republic (New York, 1953), p. 360.
About William Pitt
Alfred Jodl (1890–1946) German general
November 7, 1943 speech to Gauleiters in Munich. Quoted in "The Trial of the Germans" by Eugene Davidson - History - 1997.
Prakash Javadekar (1951) Indian politician
On the Paris Agreement, as quoted in " Factbox: World reacts to new climate accord http://www.reuters.com/article/us-climatechange-summit-reaction-factbox-idUSKBN0TV0Q420151213", Reuters (12 December 2015)
