Roy Sesana quotes

“We are the ancestors of our grandchildren's children. We look after them, just as our ancestors look after us. We aren't here for ourselves. We are here for each other and for the children of our grandchildren.”
-- Roy Sesana

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“If anyone has read a lot of books and thinks I am primitive because I have not read even one, then he should throw away those books and get one which says we are all brothers and sisters under God and we too have a right to live.”
-- Roy Sesana

Source : Acceptance Speech for The Right Livelihood Award, Stockholm, www.survivalinternational.org. December 2005.

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“We are not primitive. We live differently to you, but we do not live exactly like our grandparents did, nor do you. Were your ancestors 'primitive'? I don't think so. We respect our ancestors. We love our children. This is the same for all people.”
-- Roy Sesana

Source : Acceptance Speech for The Right Livelihood Award, Stockholm, www.survivalinternational.org. December 2005.

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“I think that the young people today feel a tremendous sense of responsibility to their brothers and sisters because of the sacrifices that most families make to send their children to college.”

“We need a quickening of faith; faith in the power of the God of Pentecost to convict and convert three thousand in a day. Faith, not in a process of culture by which we hope to train children into a state of salvation, but faith in the mighty God who can quicken a dead soul into life in a moment; faith in moral and spiritual revolution rather than evolution.”

“It is remarkable how easily children and grown-ups adapt to living in a dictatorship organised by lunatics.”

Source : "Once upon a life" by A. N. Wilson, www.theguardian.com. June 4, 2011.

“Very young children eat their books, literally devouring their contents. This is one reason for the scarcity of first editions of Alice in Wonderland and other favorites of the nursery.”

“I am a Soviet man, and Yeltsin is a Soviet man - maybe our grandchildren will be different.”

“I am glad that I am not raising kids today. And I’m rather pessimistic that my grandchildren will enjoy the great society that I’ve enjoyed in my lifetime. I really think it’s coarsened. It’s coarsened in so many ways. One of the things that upsets me about modern society is the coarseness of manners. You can’t go to a movie — or watch a television show for that matter — without hearing the constant use of the F-word — including, you know, ladies using it. People that I know don’t talk like that!”

“A grandchild is God's reward for raising a child.”

“There have been predictions that the world will come to an end on 21.12.12. But I look around me and I see so much scope for hope.”

“While other creators make a big show of their art Mani Sir makes it look as though anyone can do what he does.”

“Louis de Bernires is in the direct line that runs through Dickens and Evelyn Waugh. . .he has only to look into his world, one senses, for it to rush into reality, colours and touch and taste.”