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Quotes About Generations

Like their ancestors, Louise and her parents klutzed away their days.
~ Henrik Drescher
An old farm is always more than the people under its roof. It is the past as well as the present, and vanished generations have built themselves into it as well as left their footsteps in the worn woodwork of the stair.
~ Henry Beston
He that planteth a tree is a servant of God, he provideth a kindness for many generations, and faces that he hath not seen shall bless him.
~ Henry Van Dyke
We never know the love of our parents for us until we have become parents.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
He spoke that refined French in which our grandparents not only spoke bit thought...
~ Leo Tolstoy
His mother, a dried-up old lady with black eyes and ringlets, screwed up her eyes, scanning her son, and smiled slightly with her thin lips. Getting up from the seat and handing her maid a bag, she gave her little wrinkled hand to her son to kiss, and lifting his head from her hand, kissed him on the cheek.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Anna married an older man of position, as young women had done for centuries before and continue to do now.
~ Leo Tolstoy
No one can attain to truth by himself. Only by laying stone on stone with the cooperation of all, by the millions of generations from our forefather Adam to our own times, is that temple reared which is to be a worthy dwelling place of the Great God,
~ Leo Tolstoy
Life is beautiful. Let the future generations cleanse it of all evil, oppression, and violence and enjoy it to the full.
~ Leon Trotsky
My mom, Irmelin, taught me the value of life. Her own life was saved by my grandmother during World War II.
~ Leonardo DiCaprio
When I told him about Jordan, out flashed pictures of his grandkids. This was how I was introduced to the secret society of grans. We're instant compatriots. If you want to break the ice with someone who's in the society, all you have to do is ask, "So how old is yours?
~ Lesley Stahl
Tom Brokaw said: "For parents, bribery is a white-collar crime; for grandparents, it's a business plan!
~ Lesley Stahl
Grandchildren are the dessert course of life, or, as Steve Leber, who founded Grandparents.com, told me, "God gave us grandchildren to make up for aging." Ain't it the truth.
~ Lesley Stahl
Growing up without a grandmother is not healthy for children. That's what all the research shows. Not that long ago, societies were structured so that grandmothers lived nearby, if not in the same house. It was the natural order, the way humanity evolved.
~ Lesley Stahl
With a newborn, you really do need eight hands. Only a few generations back, a new mother had a bevy of women around helping out: her mother, aunts and cousins.
~ Lesley Stahl
Grandchildren are the dessert course of life, or, as Steve Leber, who
~ Lesley Stahl
My dad and I played music. He teaches me a song or two every time I'm home.
~ Levon Helm
History balances the frustration of how far we have to go with the satisfaction of how far we have come. It teaches us tolerance for the human shortcomings and imperfections which are not uniquely of our generation, but of all time.
~ Lewis F. Powell, Jr.
There are so many girls that are really talented like Sasha Banks and Bayley. I have been lucky enough to work with many generations of girls, so every time you see someone really talented you get that urge to make some magic with that girl.
~ Gail Kim
Let us make future generations remember us as proud ancestors just as, today, we remember our forefathers.
~ Roh Moo-hyun
Every child growing up will look to their parents, my mother and my father. My grandmother lived with us. I picked up quite a bit of family lore and history from her, which was interesting.
~ John Hume
I think the great thing about grandparents is seeing another home, realising that people you love can have different priorities, different diversions, different opinions and lead quite different lives from the ones you see every day, and that is immensely valuable.
~ Simon Hoggart
First, the firearms industry has been around and has been respected for generations. They provide a valuable service and a highly desirable product to millions of sportsmen and supporters of those second amendment rights.
~ Cliff Stearns
The Pledge of Allegiance was founded on ideals of religious freedom, and has been a valuable part of our national life for generations.
~ Cindy Hyde-Smith