Quotes About Generations

I think college football is a reflection of Middle America. You go into a college football town, and you will find three generations of a family sitting together. It's a rallying point for the university, the community, and the families.

The older women were Sunbeams and I guess we were Cherubs or Lambs, but our mothers were Nightingales.

Hence, within the space of two generations there has been a complete revolution in the attitude of the trades-unions toward the women working in their trades.

If this world is going to be a better place for our grandchildren and great-grandchildren, it will be women who make it so.

Her beauty was the talk of the valley.It skipped two generations of women in our family, but it sure didn't bypass you, Laila.

We recognize the universal power of music to touch the hearts of men and women everywhere and in all generations-to inspire and encourage, to sustain and lift, to comfort and bring peace.

I always loved my mother, felt loved, but she was judgmental. Her father in Ireland didn't approve of women generally, and she took on his values. She believed her own mother was foolish.

I went to college somewhere between the invention of the iPad and the discovery of fire... but I had gone to a women's college.

The Baby Boom has spawned an even bigger Grandma Boom. For every baby born, two women turn into grandmas.

They were from different generations, culture, nations. But even these things did not divide them so much as their separate conceptions of what it meant to be a woman.

The women in your family have never lost touch with one another. Death is a path we take to meet on the other side.

I have argued about the future of fiction with jaded novelists, far-seeing postmodernists, technologists, television critics. The argument that future generations will not know the pleasures of the novel has been a staple of book reviewing since at least 1960.

Even if we mortgage the next 100 years of generations of human beings, we would not have enough energy to build a Death Star.

Science fiction has been an inspiration to generations of scientists and engineers, and the film series 'Star Wars' is no exception.

Nationalism is a major issue. If the country is safe, my children will be safe and so will be the future generations. We want a safe and strong nation so that no enemy country can stare us down.

Whenever I'm on my way to a premiere or something, I always have a good laugh in the car... because it's all so absurd - I'm one generation removed from starvation.

I knew Roman Reigns when he used to come into the locker room with his father, holding his father's hand, barely out of diapers. And I don't say that as an ironic statement... I mean it sincerely.

Politicians all too often think about the next election. Statesmen think about the next generation.

The older generations are too wedded to political parties, too wedded to romantic memories of what education was like when they were kids, and too wedded to the status quo group that clings to power.

I enjoyed my grandparents very much. My mother and father would always allow me to stay with them.

I would like Kansas be a place that future generations feel comfortable staying here.

The Granite State has a long and proud tradition of public service, and we have to ensure that it stays that way for generations to come.

My parents weren't married. It wasn't like my dad up and left. I maintained a steady relationship with my grandparents. My dad's mother is my nana, and I'm closer to her than almost anybody in this world.

Yeah, I didn't grow up in the '50s like Stephen King so I'm more versed in the '80s and the present day than the '50s.