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Quotes About Generations

History. And from history came community. And community was something that spread out beyond itself, resulting in towns and nations. But it all began with family.
~ William Kent Krueger
in the living room, old grandmas, baby cousins.
~ William Landay
At some point as adults we cease to be our parents' children and we become our children's parents instead. What
~ William Landay
History is a warning to ourselves, and only by remembering where we have been and how low we have fallen can we know to where we aspire, but we lose everything when it is history that drives us completely, as it drove Nat and his mother and her mother
~ William Lashner
Next to the very young, I suppose the very old are the most selfish.
~ William Makepeace Thackeray
We don't inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.
~ David Brower
We must begin thinking like a river if we are to leave a legacy of beauty and life for future generations.
~ David Brower
Whether you are working for those closest to you now or working for future generations, both approaches are worthy of admiration. Seneca shows us that there are countless ways we can all contribute to society, whether benefiting one or many. Regardless of our individual skills and inclinations, there's a way open for everyone.
~ David Fideler
The burden of rights-scolding falls above all on the younger generations. In most wealthy countries, the current crop of people in their twenties represents the first generation in more than a century that can, on the whole, expect opportunities and living standards substantially worse than those enjoyed by their parents. Yet at the same time, they are lectured relentlessly from both left and right on their sense of entitlement for feeling they might deserve anything else.
~ David Graeber
My dad had been an actor... not only had my dad been an actor, but his dad had been an actor, and my great-grandfather had been an actor. And who knows before then?
~ David Hyde Pierce
Many of the dozens of advisors worked for free, in hopes that EPCOT would provide real-life solutions for future generations.
~ David Koenig
Every generation is equidistant from God.
~ Leopold von Ranke
Grandchildren are God's reward for not killing your kids.
~ Tony Campolo
Does being born into a Christian family make one a Christian? No! God has no grandchildren.
~ Corrie Ten Boom
God and posterity will show me more favour
~ Lady Jane Grey
We have the promise of God's being our God, and of the blessing by Christ for ourselves, as we are Abraham's seed, yet take the whole promise collectively made to him and us.
~ Thomas Goodwin
All ages serve and worship the same God, gather under the same gospel and add to the collective song that praises the faithfulness of God as each generation shares in his promises to us.
~ Keith Getty
I thank God, Jesus, and my Grandmother for being able to support myself and my family.
~ Steven Adler
My grandmother went to church, but my mother had been inundated with church and decided that when she had children, she would not push church or God on her children.
~ Gloria Gaynor
We believed in our grandmother's cooking more fervently than we believed in God.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
God doesn't have any grandchildren.
~ E. Stanley Jones
The temple will be an ever-present reminder that God intended the family to be eternal.
~ Ezra Taft Benson
Winthrop and his shipmates and their children and their children's children just wrote their own books and pretty much kept their noses in them up until the day God created the Red Sox.
~ Sarah Vowell
It is very common with artists who are of a generation that has already gone by to get overly concerned with, Oh my God I have to sell to the younger generation.
~ Carole King