Quotes About Generations

Even an entire society, a nation, or all simultaneously existing societies taken together, are not the owners of the earth. They are simply its possessors, its beneficiaries, and have to bequeath it in an improved state to succeeding generations as boni patres familias [good heads of the household].

Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, but under circumstances existing already, given and transmitted from the past. The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living.

The tradition of past generations weighs like the Alps on the brains of the living.

La tradición de todas las generaciones muertas oprime como una pesadilla el cerebro de los vivos.

Man makes his own history, but he does not make it out of the whole cloth; he does not make it out of conditions chosen by himself, but out of such as he finds close at hand. The tradition of all past generations weighs like an alp upon the brain of the living

Men have slow reflexes. In general it takes several generations later for them to understand.

We have a whole generation of men who don't understand how much they mean to their kids.

If you want to civilize a man, begin with his grandmother.

The man who sees two or three generations is like one who sits in the conjuror's booth at a fair, and sees the same tricks two or three times. They are meant to be seen only once.

What's really important for me is, as an old man, I'm known by my own generation and the next generation know me, too.

The man who disobeys his parents will have disobedient sons.

In a few generations you can breed a racehorse. The recipe for making a man like Delacroix is less well known.

Do not bandy words with your father, nor treat him as a dotard, nor reproach the old man, who has cherished you, with his age.

The young man taught all he knew and more; The middle-aged man taught all he knew; The old man taught all that his students could understand.

History had a slow pulse; man counted in years, history in generations

In America ... the seven ages of man have become preschooler, Pepsi generation, baby boomer, mid-lifer, empty-nester, senior citizen, and organ donor.

Overhead the sanctities of the stars shine forever-more... pouring satire on the pompous business of the day which they close, and making the generations of men show slight and evanescent.

Every generation has their favorite Spider-Man television show.

Let no man seek Henceforth to be foretold that shall befall Him or his children.

Being a mom, I love to play with my kids and have fun with them, but I also love fashion. My mom and both of my grandmothers have always been into fashion, so it's been around us our whole lives.

My mom, Irmelin, taught me the value of life. Her own life was saved by my grandmother during World War II.

My dad and all my family were into baseball. His brothers, my mom's brothers, my mom's father. Baseball was just always a part of our family.

It's not how much money you make, but how much money you keep, how hard it works for you, and how many generations you keep it for.

We think of poverty as a condition simply meaning a lack of funds, no money, but when one sees fifth, sixth, and seventh generation poor, it is clear that poverty is as complicated as high finance.