Quotes About Generations

No man can say with certainty what the future may hold. But perhaps, in knowing what has already transpired, we can all do our part to avoid the mistakes of our forebears, to emulate their successes, and to create a world more harmonious for our children and their children, for generations to come.

We are puppets dancing on the strings of those who came before us, and one day our own children will take up our strings and dance on in our steads.

Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.

Your grandmother had an icon, your mother had a little portrait of Lenin, and you have your TV.

I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great.

Language is not an abstract construction of the learned, or of dictionary-makers, but is something arising out of the work, needs, ties, joys, affections, tastes, of long generations of humanity, and has its bases broad and low, close to the ground.

Everyone expects to go further than his father went; everyone expects to be better than he was born and every generation has one big impulse in its heart-to exceed all the other generations of the past in all the things that make life worth living.

We do not inherit this land from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children.

A Jewish man with parents alive is a 15-year-old boy, and will remain a 15-year-old boy until they die.

Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.

Our sons, who so easily recognize our errors, and rightly denounce them, will have to confess their own, later on, and they may be as bad as ours, perhaps worse.

The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.

Think of your forefathers! Think of your posterity!

Every man is his own ancestor, and every man his own heir. He devises his own future, and he inherits his own past.

Shame is an ornament to the young; a disgrace to the old.

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

Young folk, silly folk; old folk, cold folk.

Magic is the accumulated record of psychic and spiritual experience which we have inherited from the past, from former generations of mankind.

Tako su se obnavljali naraštaji pored mosta, a on je kao prašinu stresao sa sebe sve tragove koje su na njemu ostavljale prolazne ljudske ?udi ili potrebe, i ostajao je posle svega nepromenljiv.

I had watched my father, my uncles, my brother, and even my son—only on occasion—treat the women in their lives less than honorably.

The stories they tell will be different from the stories I heard in the camp, because the camp was for those left behind, the women and children, the old men, the blind, the crippled, the idiots, people who have nothing to tell but stories of how they have endured. Whereas these young men have had adventures, victories and defeats and escapes. They will have stories to tell long after the war is over, stories for a lifetime, stories for their grandchildren to listen to open-mouthed.

Children were the only immortality mortals got—and even then, two generations later, three at the most, no one knew you in person anymore.

We had all kinds of material things, but no emotional ties among the people living under that expansive roof." "When you are poor, all you have are the people in your life. Who they are and who they are to you? That is the wealth you have in the world. That is the wealth you pass down to the next generation

I tried to bring up boyfriends and sex. Her great dark eyes surveyed me with emptiness and a kind of chagrin that reached back generations and generations in her blood from not having done what was crying to be done--whatever it was, and everybody knows what it was.