Quotes About Generations

Don't teach your granddad how to fish.

So said the old man: As a boy I gathered fruit from the trees planted by my forebears. Am I not, then, required to plant the trees that will sustain my grandchildren?

those who wish to punish the current and future generations for the inequities of a generation long gone, and who equate justice with revenge, are the most dangerous people in the world.

With the thirst of an insatiable swillpot, he had poured down the fiction of two generations of deep thinkers, and he was pickled in their

On that Friday, his granddaughter, Sharona, was staffing the front room

Panthea, the daughter of John Kennedy Ching

The yarn forms the stitches, the knitting forges the friendships, the craft links the generations." —Karen Alfke, "Unpattern" designer and knitting instructor LYDIA HOFFMAN

You ever hear of Little Christmas?" he asked her. "'Course," she said. "January sixth." "Nobody remembers it anymore." "Meant something in my time," she said. "My old man's too." Her voice picked up a tone of distracted pity. "Not yours, though." "Not mine," Bob agreed and felt a trapped

All modern humans are related to what scientists call Mitochondrial Eve. This refers to our common matrilineal ancestor. She lived approximately 200,000 years ago and depending on how you estimate the length of a generation, we are only 5,000 to 10,000 generations from one another. To put it another way, each of us is a cousin of one another at most 10,000 times removed. And yes, Mitochondrial Eve lived in Africa, so, in a very real way, we are all Africans.

Forgiveness among the members of older generations could open the door to healthy and supportive relationships among younger generations.

What a mystery blood was -- how did a tiny gesture, a tome of voice, endure through generations like the harder verities of flesh? He had seen it again and again, watching his nieces and nephews grow, and accepted without thought the ehoes of parent and grandparent that appeared for brief moments. the shadow of a face looking back through the years -- that vanished again into the face that was now.

I am a warrior, that my son may be a merchant—and his son may be a poet.

Papa says that wars take three generations to fade from the ground where they're fought. And from what I've seen, Friends have quite long memories, as well." "He might just have a point.

Roger Wakefield: ésta es mi hija, Brianna. Brianna Randall dio un paso adelante con una sonrisa tímida.

What a mystery blood was—how did a tiny gesture, a tone of voice, endure through generations like the harder verities of flesh? He had seen it again and again, watching his nieces and nephews grow, and accepted without thought the echoes of parent and grandparent that appeared for brief moments, the shadow of a face looking back through the years—that vanished again into the face that was now.

The sins of the fathers," I murmured to myself. "The sins of the fathers shall not be visited upon the children.

My father's house was on East 55th Street on 1st and 2nd Avenues. I'm fifth-generation Marino in the East 50s - I live on 57th Street. I can't be more East 50s.

I'm of the generation that discovered Aerosmith because of Run-DMC. They just looked crazy to me. They were the dudes in the Run-DMC video. That's who Aerosmith was.

A lot of kids do look up to us. But there are just as many elderly people to put us down.

I look at my elders as the leaders.

My father had it, my mother had it; we wanted to entertain people.

If we follow the ancestral line of our umbilical cord from our mother, to her mother's mother, her mother's mother's mother, and so on, eventually we will reach our primal mother—the one we all share.

My family history begins with me, but yours ends with you.

Generational curses are actually blessings in disguise; the mistakes were already made for you, now all you have to do is apply the solutions.