Quotes About Generations

As the Arab proverb says, "People resemble their times more than they resemble their fathers.

Johnson women

Her beauty was the talk of the valley.It skipped two generations of women in our family, but it sure didn't bypass you, Laila.

ella. Pari es sangre de mi sangre. Y no tardaré en conocer a sus hijos y a los hijos de sus hijos, y mi sangre circula también en las venas de todos ellos. No estoy sola.

Water moves forever in a circle; someday, little ones, your grandchildren may even drink your tears

A hurt mammal never forgets. Epigenetic theory suggests an almost Lamarckian transfer down the generations; some genes are activated by experiences, others are not.

the seven generations rule, thinking seven generations back and seven generations forward, and seven times seven

The picture is perfectly clear: the entire economy is fueled not by profit, not by production, but by debt. Debt, moreover, that no one is working on paying back and that everyone needs to believe—this is the pipe dream that sustains the whole charade—will certainly be paid by future generations.

Tredje slektledd råder nu i Jensens store krambod på Segelfoss. Grunnleggeren var Per Jensen, kallet Per på bua, det fortsatte med hans sønn Theodor, Theodor på bua, som drev det meget vidt og ble pott og panne og fremskrittsmann i byen. Det er ikke lenger siden, folk minnes ham godt, han var samtidig med gammelløytnantens sønn, han som bare brydde seg om musikk og ikke ble til noe.

Silence is an easy habit. But it doesn't come naturally. Silence has to be cultivated, enforced by implication and innuendo, looks and glances, hints of dark consequence. Silence is greedy. It insists upon its own necessity. It transcends generations.

She flipped through them again, quickly enough that she created a moving picture of her granddaughter's last few weeks—a cascading waterfall of captured moments.

I'm actually the fourth generation in my family to have no practical use for the church, or God, or religion. My children continue this trend.

I knew why earlier generations once believed that the sun circled the earth. Because, in our limited imaginations, that is how we lived our lives. -Mrs. Tuesday's Departure

...you could be the best team or the best player in different generations and people respect each other. Nobody cares who was the best.

I have so much respect for people that are my elders. You aren't going to hear me cursing around people that are 60 and 70 years old.

I do think that one needs to have respect for people who are older. And I really do love the idea that one can respect generations.

Peace for us means the destruction of Israel. We are preparing for an all-out war, a war which will last for generations.

Hurt people hurt people. That's how pain patterns gets passed on, generation after generation after generation. Break the chain today. Meet anger with sympathy, contempt with compassion, cruelty with kindness. Greet grimaces with smiles. Forgive and forget about finding fault. Love is the weapon of the future.

The daughter who had escaped the sad fate envisioned by her mother had become a mother herself, and was now horrified that the ghost of her mother's fear had decided to make its home in her own heart.

S? nu ui?i, Darie. Nimic s? nu ui?i. S? spui copiilor t?i. ?i copiilor pe care-i vor avea copiii t?i s? le spui... Auzi, Darie? S? nu ui?i... S? nu ui?i, Darie...

Generations crying out for meaning in their life, for something to believe in beyond themselves, and afraid or unable to embrace faith. Tragedy is all around us.

I like the way the word Witch connects us back through all the generations of those who went before us who harnessed the power of the elements and magick to improve their lives and deepen their connection with the natural world.

Every Mother contains her daughter in herself and every daughter her mother and every mother extends backwards into her mother and forwards into her daughter. —Carl Jung

wondered whether the sins of the fathers could ever be washed away ..... or whether a legacy of tainted blood would always colour the lives of the children and the children's children. I didn't come up with any answers