Quotes About Generations

For generations fathers had watched earth and sea.

Old One, the tenant said apologetically. It is none of my business and I ought to die, but after all they are the children of your elder brother's son who after all is the first in the next generation after you.

In these days it never came to Wang the Tiger's mind that his son's dreams might not be his own and he lived for the spring.

The fruit of her life is her grandson who is not yet born.

All of the generations go to what is chic for them, and theater seems to be an older generation's art form.

We're able to influence younger generations on design and art. They might not have realized they were an artist.

This was the way it was meant to be, when parents slipped gently away, and the next generations moved on.

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She glanced around at the tombstones. "You're surrounded by death here. Way too depressing. You really might want to think about getting another job." "You see death and sadness in these sunken patches of dirt, I see lives lived fully and the good deeds of past generations influencing the future ones.

with the way the world is now, we all have to think about things beyond our lifetime. Beyond our children's lifetime, in fact. It's our right. It's our duty, my good friend told me.

The Pullers sat there for a long time together, big, strong, and courageous men transformed back into two little boys by an old man's loving words that had come a lot later than they should have.

The sins of the father are to be laid upon the children.

17 It shall be a perpetual statute for your generations throughout all your dwellings, that ye eat neither fat nor blood

Thus they had harvested at Anderby since those far off years when the Danes broke in across the headland and dyed with blood the trampled barley. Thus and thus had the workers passed, and the children waved their garlands following the last load home. Thus had Mary and other Mary Robsons before her welcomed the master of the harvest.

No one can understand history without continually relating the long periods which are constantly mentioned to the experiences of our own short lives. Five years is a lot. Twenty years is the horizon to most people. Fifty years is antiquity. To understand how the impact of destiny fell upon any generation of men one must first imagine their position and then apply the time-scale of our own lives.

It is as grandmothers that our mothers come into the fullness of their grace.

Pell thought both aristocrats and big businessmen to be "totally selfish," as Arthur Schlesinger, jr., has put it, "but the aristocrat at least thought of his grandsons, while the bourgeois thought only of himself."2

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

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

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

I was born too soon into a world too young.

Why do grandparents and grandchildren get along so well? The mother.

A little girl asked her grandmother why she always ask her name. The grandmother said, It is not senility. I only want to make sure you remember me when you don't see me anymore...

The living, though they yearn for consummation of their fate, need rest, and in their turn leave children to fulfil their doom.