Quotes About Generations

In the end ... success or failure will come down to an ethical decision, one on which those now living will be judged for generations to come.

I do think that evangelicals in general need to think seriously about how you pass on your faith across generations and over the long haul.

People born in 1994-1999 have lived in three decades, two centuries, and two millenniums. And they are not even 18 yet. We're just that cool...

Many generations are dependent on a man's understanding of his appointed purpose in life

He had more stories of his son from a single year, I thought, than my father had of me in all eternity.

Seit Hunderten von Generationen war ich nun schon auf der Erde - und war doch immer noch ein Kind.

The grandmother was waiting in the parlour. She had on a long black skirt that reached to the ground and she moved as if she was on wheels. Esme doesn't think she ever saw her feet. She proffered a cheek for her son to kiss, then surveyed Esme and Kitty through pince-nez. 'Ishbel,' she said to their mother, who was suddenly standing very erect and very alert on the hearthrug, 'something will have to be done about the clothes.

Our choices are going to determine the future for our children, our children's children, and their children. I take that responsibility very seriously.

It is our job, as members of parliament, to legislate with an eye to the long term future, to look over the horizon beyond the next election and ensure that as far as we can what we do today will make Australia a better place, a safer place, for future generations to live in.

It is the right of the grandfather to tell the grandson later what was said while in the womb. It is the right of the grandfather to give the name that will serve as a life program to its bearer. Grandfather

A symbolic way of coming full circle in a world where representations of heredity express a substantial form of continuity between generations in other respects as well.

If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace." Those

Once established for a few generations, civilization might seem durable enough to last forever. But the skin of enlightened self-interest is very delicate, easily eroded, and the human capacity for unspeakable barbarity lies just beneath its surface.

blackballed from guild roles for two generations, because apparently mutiny is in the DNA, like eye color or a tendency toward irritable bowels. On

Two generations of Americans knew more about the Ford coil than the clitoris, about the planetary system of gears that the solar system of stars.

That was a time when a man had the right to be burried by his own son an' a son had the right to burry his own father.

And this is about the way the Salinas Valley was when my grandfather brought his wife and settled in the foothills to the east of King City.

The old continue to be old-fashioned, though their youths were modern. We grow backward, aging into our father's opinions and even into those of our grandfathers.

Not until midlife did she truly believe that she had a right to exist, that the forces of nature had created her not as an afterthought and companion - a bent rib, as the infamous Malleus Maleficarum had it - but as the mainstay of the continuing Creation, as the daughter of a daughter and a woman whose daughters in turn would bear daughters.

And no, the hit records of your generation are not better than today's. As soon as you stop listening to new music, your life is over. You are a fart.

We will remember the way things used to be, and teach our children to be better than us. The generations that follow will remember with us. In that day, we will all be free

The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.

Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild.

When three generations are present in a family, one of them is bound to be revolutionary.