Quotes About Generations

I love being a great-grandparent but what I hate is being the the mother of a grandparent.

What was silent in the father speaks in the son, and often I found in the son the unveiled secret of the father.

If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.

His father watched him across the gulf of years and pathos which always must divide a father from his son.

I grew up in Minnesota. Four generations of my father's people are buried there.

'Tis happy for him that his Father was born before him.

The earth, the air, the land and the water are not an inheritance from our fore fathers but on loan from our children. So we have to handover to them at least as it was handed over to us.

How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.

My father was afraid of his father, I was afraid of my father, and I don't see why my children shouldn't be afraid of me.

Baseball is continuous, like nothing else among American things, an endless game of repeated summers, joining the long generations of all the fathers and all the sons.

My father didn't know his real name. My father got his name from his grandfather and he got his name from his grandfather and he got it from the slave master.

Few sons are like their fathers - many are worse, few better.

We gladly put antiquity above our age but not posterity. Only a father doesn't begrudge his son's talent.

The Bible tells us that the sins of the fathers are passed to succeeding generations. The virtues of the fathers can be passed along, too.

I have more pictures of my children than my father ever looked at me.

My father, when he went, made my childhood a gift of a half a century.

'My Father's Eyes' is very personal. I realized that the closest I ever came to looking in my father's eyes was when I looked into my son's eyes.

Natural law. Sons are put on this earth to trouble their fathers.

My brother and sister are both older than I am and were born before my father went off to World War I.

Sometimes it's blood memory... not the blood your mother and father gave you... but that which stretches back two or three thousand years.

It's something families could do together. They can be passed on from father to son, or father to daughter.

If by chance I talk a little wild, forgive me; I had it from my father.

Few sons are equal to their fathers; most fall short, all too few surpass them.

I think if I got a bicycle from my father, I should give a car to my son.