Quotes About Generations

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The fruits of your labors may be reaped two generations from now. Trust, even when you don't see the results.

What I've been surprised by is not how different people are, but how similar they are. There are certain types of Airbnb people, and they are in every city in the world - it's just that in some cultures, there is more of a generational divide.

My grandmother was a typical farm-family mother. She would regularly prepare dinner for thirty people, and that meant something was always cooking in the kitchen. All of my grandmother's recipes went back to her grandmother.

Inkaba' is about a feud between two South African families. They have been fighting for years, from one generation to the next. It's like those typical feuds you have in rural KwaZulu-Natal where, after a while, you do not even know why you are fighting.

When I had my first child, I went back to Ireland to live with my mother. So, a typical day there was me being a mother, with my mum showing me how to do things.

My grandparents came from a typical Marathi family, where they respect the value of rules and regulations.

In the ultimate analysis, all of us would have served Pakistan better if history and our future generations judge us positively.

Ultimately, we have to decide, with the Legislature: Are we willing to take some bold steps to make us even more competitive in the future, competing in a global economy? I think Nebraskans are willing to listen to that discussion. They want an opportunity for their kids and grandkids to live here.

My daughter doesn't even get my humor. She's like, 'Um, no. I don't get it, Dad. Mmm, no, not that one, Dad.'

A credible and effective response to climate change - which protects future generations from an unacceptable level of risk - needs the involvement of all countries.

My job as a mayor is to look 10, 15, 20 years into the future and think not just about my generation, but about my children's generation and my unborn grandchildren and think - what is the kind of economy that they're going to to inherit and what are we doing today to prepare ourselves for that?

In Europe, war is a disease which has been in the family for generations: no one is surprised when it makes another leap. Even the patient only attends to it with part of his mind.

Old men make wars that young men may die.

War is young men dying and old men talking

I'm not that man anymore. No one can stay that way too long. That's why wars end and a later generation catches its breath looking forward and erasing what's behind.

We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children

Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.

If the main thing the next generations know about Jewish history is that we were persecuted and suffered, they will lose sight of the tremendous heritage of Jewish culture, theology, and wisdom.

Are we being good ancestors?

Happy those Who in the after-days shall live, when Time Hath spoken, and the multitude of years Taught wisdom to mankind!

Question everything, even if it represents generations of conventional wisdom.

Serve your parents if you expect your children to serve you when you are old

We often hear about stepping outside ourselves, but rarely about stepping outside our generation.