Quotes About Generations

He has little use for scholars, but you are his sole grandchild, and as such, he is willing to overlook your failings as long as you conduct yourself as a princess of the court during your time of service. Do not disappoint him, Andromeda. Your grandfather's mercy is not endless.

According to scholars, religions can be boiled down to the three Bs, "behaving," "believing," and "belonging," but I, like many American Jews, don't do so good on these. Several generations ago Jews "behaved" more like Jews, or at least they would perform or refrain from certain behaviors because they were Jews.

Typically it takes several generations for a worldview and all its implications to thoroughly permeate a society.

Like the threads of finely woven linen, the warp and woof of friendship uniting the Warrens and Adams through successive generations was once again seamlessly bound.

The younger women can wake it up in the older ones; but from now on all women will have it.

A group of same-aged people is inherently unstable. Peers will compete just as siblings compete. The ancestral sorority was transgenerational, and if we want whatever strength and balm may come from sisterhood, it wouldn't hurt to recapitulate in some measure the timeworn model and brace our listing library of cohorts with bookends of the young and the seasoned.

Not to be deficient in this particular, the author has provided himself with a moral—the truth, namely, that the wrongdoing of one generation lives into the successive ones.

The relationship between those who have burned the most fossil fuels and those who will suffer the most from a warming climate is perversely inverted. The inversion is both chronological (younger generations pay for their elders' emissions) and socioeconomic (the poor suffer what the rich deserve).

We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.

ours has been a time of relative affluence in which we have allowed full generations to be nurtured on the notion that, somehow, they are the center of the universe, and that meeting their needs should become the priority task of others - others who are expected to be very devoted. Some expect to receive - indeed, they demand - unilateral love.

Maria had died in childbirth-related complications sixteen years before, in 1804, as her mother Martha (or Patty) Wayles Jefferson had died from childbirth before her, and as her grandmother had died after giving birth to her mother.

Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see. ~Neil Postman, The Disappearance of Childhood (introduction), 1982

The sins of the parents are the destinies of their children. Unless the children wake up and do something about it.

The real social contract, (Edmund Burke) argued, was not Rousseau's social contract between the noble savage and the General Will, but a "partnership" between the present generation and future generations.

by blindly pursuing economic growth, we are creating a whole set of social and environmental issues that will undermine the potential happiness and well-being of future generations. It is time to

God, I pray that my family will continue on in the faith. Give my children ears to hear and the memory to recall their legacy in future years. Remind us to pray often for family members and for our descendants, just as some of our ancestors surely prayed for us. Create from us, O Lord, a family legacy that will honor you for generations to come.

I'm thinking of a legacy that I can be proud of and wealth that my grandchildren can use to go to college. So world domination - in terms of providing for my family - is absolutely my goal.

The terrorist is the liberal's grandchild.

My mother dyed my hair red since I was four because I loved Anne of Green Gables and wanted red hair. Not many people know this but my natural hair color is light strawberry blonde. Got my hair from my grandmother's side of the family.

Look, one day I had gone to a little village. An old grandfather of ninety was busy planting an almond tree. 'What, grandfather!' I exclaimed. 'Planting an almond tree?' And he, bent as he was, turned around and said: 'My son, I carry on as if I should never die.' I replied: 'And I carry on as if I was going to die any minute.' Which of us was right, boss?

Do not kiss your children so they will kiss you back, but so they will kiss their children, and their children's children.

Each new generation, he thought, fails to learn from the one before.

No feeling was better than that of being surrounded by her own. Her children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

When grandparents enter the door, discipline flies out the window.