Quotes About Generations

Your positive impact on the generations to come will be directly related to the ministry you have in that little place called home.

We are to take the baton of God's truth and pass it on to the next generation of believers.

A única esperança que nos resta é que estas contradições sejam uma questão de gerações. No futuro haveremos de parecer bem ridículos.

My grandmother told me that her father used to ask her a riddle: What must you break apart in order to bring a family close together? Bread, of course.

When we are out of sympathy with the young, then I think our work in this world is over.

May God be with you and bless you; May you see your children's children. May you be poor in misfortune, rich in blessings, may you know nothing but happiness. From this day forward.

Every family has a story that it tells itself, that it passes on to the children and grandchildren. The story grows over the years, mutates, some parts are sharpened, others dropped, and there is often debate about what really happened. But even with these different sides of the same story, there is still agreement that this is the family story.

Happiness is, watching my daughter being silly with her daughter and the circle continues.

Stop being so sure that you are always right, and others wrong. Don't trust your own opinion, when you find it contrary to that of older men, and especially to that of your own parents. Age gives experience, and therefore deserves respect.

War is created by people who are too old to fight for those who are too young to die.

Don't be discouraged if your children reject your advice. Years later they will offer it to their own offspring.

I wish I could make the land bloom for you. But the land is not mine to give. It belongs to the earth and to the spirits that dwell within it. We are merely stewards, entrusted with the care of this sacred land, and it is our duty to ensure that it thrives for generations to come. That is why we must tread lightly, with humility and respect, and work together to restore the balance that has been lost. (Kneubuhl 35)

Sons are for fathers the twice-told tale.

Really ingenious, he said. He had a Minnesotan's admiration for resourcefulness in the face of hardship, bred by generations of people one very bad winter away from starvation and cannibalism. I

He had a Minnesotan's admiration for resourcefulness in the face of hardship, bred by generations of people one very bad winter away from starvation and cannibalism.

Unheralded we came into this world. Unheralded we will go out. But while we are in this world, we do such deeds that even if this generation does not remember, the next generation cannot forget.

War is created by people who are too old to fight for those who are too young to die.

You know you are old when you discover that your children are learning in history class what you studied in current events.

Future generations will probably be able to enlighten us on this very interesting subject, and then science itself—with all due respect—may reach conclusions that are more or less in keeping with Christ's sayings about the other half of our life.

Perform, then, this one act of remembrance before this Day passes - Remember there is an army of defense and advance that never dies and never surrenders, but is increasingly recruited from the eternal sources of the American spirit and from the generations of American youth.

Children should not offer their opinions in the presence of their elders or contradict them.

Grandparents are given a second chance to enjoy parenthood with fewer of its tribulations and anxieties.

Children born today have a fifty-fifty chance of living to 100.

Grandchildren now don't write a thank you for the Christmas presents. They are walking on their pants with their cap on backward, listening to the Enema Man and Snoopy, Snoopy Poop Dog.