Quotes About Generations

Someone's parents have been singing entirely the wrong sort of songs.

He is overcome with the disease of love, the drunkenness of generations past. When are we ourselves, he wonders, trudging through the snow-covered banks, his coat illuminated by moon-light.

Rather than pound or a national mind that he believed had been closed by his critics, John Quincy Adams decided to seek a place in the is the esteem of future generations.

One generation shall commend your works to another" (v. 4).

I am here because of those who came before. And I will go on because of those who come after.

More than the secret of the cat had drawn [Ned] to the nursing home. It was Mr. Scully himself. He'd known him, his habits, the things he knew how to do, the way he made his bread, the way he could get a fire started so quickly in the stove, the stories he told, the smile he gave Ned when he poured rum into his own tea, his memories of his long life.

would have liked to kiss her on the cheek but he had no idea if the Kiowas kissed one another or if so, did grandfathers kiss granddaughters. You never knew. Cultures were mine fields. He patted the air with a gentle motion. Sit. Stay.

This violence, as a process, is perpetuated from generation to generation of oppressors, who become its heirs and are shaped by it.

I plant a lot of trees. I am a great believer in planting things for future generations. I loathe the now culture where you just live for today.

I will bless those who bless you, And I will curse him who curses you; And in you all the families of the earth shall be     blessed.

While Moses was in Egypt, God revealed his sacred name to him, the name Yehovah! This name consists of four Hebrew letters, yod, hei, vav and hei.   This was the first time that man had ever heard this name. God said, "...this is my name for ever, and this is my memorial unto all generations." – Exodus 3:15 In English, this sacred name, "Yehovah" or "Yahweh", is found almost 7,000 times in the Hebrew scriptures.

I find my grandfather, buried with Great-Aunt Hannah and Uncle Jack. His surname is spelled 'MacCarthy', with an extra 'a'; like many names here, it's a translation from the Irish, so the 'a' is optional, and may appear and disappear with the generations.

I came to Australia as a damaged grown up adult, and it took me years to heal, so my perspective of the national Australian pride is not full. It [assimilation] penetrates, it's accepted, it's tolerated, and I think the third generation it is absorbed. I don't know about the second generation, - Holocaust survivor, Kitia Altman

It's beautiful to transcend generations and to just be inside an artistic work, together, enjoying what only a great artistic work can provide.

The Lord's Supper teaches that] Rituals are good, and they are instituted and used by God to 'connect' his people with him. We learn through ritual that the church is not just made up of individuals, but is a corporate body. It is not just about personal salvation, but a group of people, the people of God, who are bound to one another and to the faithful through the generations. (page 263)

It took eight generations of cousins marrying to produce you

There it was, plain and beautifully simple, five generations down the line. :)

Genuine scientific progress is a slow climb, which requires a stable society to support thinkers and theorists over many generations.

For my children. For you. So that you could be safe. So that what happened to them," he nods toward the photo of his mother and his sister, "would never happen to you. Because it will never really go away, this thing. It goes underground for a generation or two, but always reemerges.

On closer examination, we are simply a banal tragedy spread over two generations.

Parenthood...It's about guiding the next generation, and forgiving the last.

This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day that God created man, He made him in His own likeness.

When Adam was 130 years old, he had a son in his own likeness, after his own image; and he named him Seth.

And after he had become the father of Seth, Adam lived 800 years and had other sons and daughters.