Quotes About Generations

The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge.

Families will not be broken. Curse and expel them, send their children wandering, drown them in floods and fires, and old women will make songs of all these sorrows and sit in the porches and sing them on mild evenings.

It runs in the blood like wooden legs.

All these were honoured in their generations and were the glory of their times.

Our ideals, laws and customs should be based on the proposition that each generation in turn becomes the custodian rather than the absolute owner of our resources - and each generation has the obligation to pass this inheritance on in the future.

Both of my parents were first-generation Americans, the children of Jews who left Eastern Europe around the turn of the century.

Turning the pages of a favourite book creates a very special bond with our grandchildren, but it's not just an indulgent pleasure.

It's a great pleasure having survived six generations of TV critics.

The trouble with us is that the ghetto of the Middle Ages and the children of the twentieth century have to live under one roof.

Cancer runs in our family. I lost my grandmother to it. There's a saying that you meet people and instantly know them. My grandmother and I had that. The first time my heart was broken was when my grandmother passed away. I was twenty-one.

My mother, twenty-two, was Harriet Gautier Brooks, named for her paternal grandmother, but always called Hallie. My father, twenty-six, was Albert Horton Foote, named for his father and great-grandfather, and I was named Albert Horton Foote, Jr.

My mother and my father have always supported me. Now in their eighties, they actually clamor onto the tour bus with me once or twice a year so they can watch the performances and hear the crowds. Traveling with eighty-something-year-olds on a tour bus... there has to be some sort of reality show in that.

Are we going to fire the father to hire the son? We want to create jobs for young people, but not at the expense of others.

I know that [Sunday is the day you spend with your family] is a tradition that I want to keep alive and I also want to share.

I'm a Southerner. We dream of having the family and the kids, and the parents want grandkids, that's all they care about, give me some grandbabies.

Peace for us means the destruction of Israel. We are preparing for an all-out war, a war which will last for generations...

I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.

We can make war so terrible and make them so sick of war that generations pass away before they again appeal to it.

Wars don't happen on battlefields; they go on happening in people's hearts for generations and generations, and the ecological damage is unfathomably complex and dire.

I wanted to write about my mother as she should have been if she had not been messed up by World War I.

Men with purple hearts carry silver guns and they will kill a man for what his father has done. But what my father did, I don't live it: no, I am not him.

I must study war and politics so that my children shall be free to study commerce, agriculture and other practicalities, so that their children can study painting, poetry and other fine things.

In times of war, it is often best to look to our history to see how past generations of Americans dealt with the loss of their countrymen in just causes.

And at the last all shall be safe, and evil thrust out never to return. And so that the trust be kept, he said, I give it into your charge, and your sons', and your sons' sons, until the day come.