Quotes About Generations

In this America, this wilderness Where the axe echoes with a lonely sound, The generations labor to possess And grave by grave we civilize the ground.

Our grandparents' "normal" has become our "almost impoverished.

Children are like time capsules that we shoot into the future, hoping there will still be a world for them to inherit. I don't know if they are chips off the same block, or if one apple has fallen farther from the tree, but what does it matter? They are loved. Longed for. Ours.

This progressive effacement of human relationships is not without certain problems for the novel. How, in point of fact, would one handle the narration of those unbridled passions, stretching over many years, and at times making their effect felt on several generations? We're a long way from Wuthering Heights, to say the least. The novel form is not conceived for depicting indifference or nothingness; a flatter, more terse, and dreary discourse would need to be invented.

Aceptar la ideología del cambio continuo es aceptar que la vida de un hombre se reduzca estrictamente a su existencia individual, y que las generaciones pasadas y futuras ya no tengan ninguna importancia para él. Así vivimos, y actualmente tener un hijo ya no tiene sentido para un hombre

Se duc genii si durere, mor cuvinte si placere, generatii sub tacere, fum in vant, sub soare umbra.

And I love Mel Brooks. My Dad loved his movies, too, they're awesome, the kind of thing that if you're in for ten minutes, you're in for two hours.

THEIR GRANDKIDS MAKE THEM DO IT. This was the case with George Harrison, and it made us all feel very old.

Even the most wretched individual of our present society could not exist and develop without the cumulative social efforts of countless generations.

First we are children to our parents, then parents to our children, then parents to our parents, then children to our children.

We have three generations at home, including my father-in-law. I keep a very low profile, and a lot of things I do are very much with the family in mind. I have actually made films with the family around me.

We come from long lines of people destined never to meet.

Many of the people there were in their twenties and thirties, and I wondered if they were Blanca or the friends of Blanca..There were also people in their forties, fifties, sixties, and seventies, and these people had a chance of being Blanca, too, or the parents of Blanca, or grandparents or even great-grandparents of Blanca, if Blanca was a child. There were a few children running around, sisters of brothers, who could be Blanca or Blanca's grandchild...

Not speaks one who spoke, There speaks one who wilt speak, May another find what he will speak! Not a teller of tales after they happen. This has been done before ; Nor a teller of what might be said, This is vain endeavor, it is lies. And none will recall his name to others. I say this in accord with what I have seen: From the first generation to those who come after, They imitate that which is past.

A man regards his son as his enemy.

Food is a constant flashpoint between mother and daughter. Aroon

Unfortunately it is not possible to destroy our history. It lives inside us, probably the more powerful for our attempts to bury it. We and our families are likely to pay a high price in the present for trying to block out the past. Attempts to cover up family history tend to fester, influencing others born long after the original painful experiences and relationships.

All knowledge is only accumulations of previous generations. I don't think an individual deserves all the praise for knowing something beautiful.

History will always have the final laugh whenever we try to apply the concept of equality to any generation.

My reign is not only from this generation, but including the ones to come in the near future.

The last child, which is Islam, acknowledged his elders and gave them credit for the foundations that they laid before him.

The man who claimed money was the root of all evil had no idea what he was talking about. Different generations, or eras, will come up with different solutions.

The price of freedom, death, is well known to everyone and it's the most feared one throughout all the generations.

To claim that the world has known only two world wars is to ignore the history of past generations and civilizations.