Quotes About Generations

My grandfather built this chapel so Nan would have someplace to yell at God," Jameson informed me.

He made me understand that there could be no release from their service until the day I died. He explained, Your father gave it to you as his inheritance, and you will pass it onto your children. They will curse you, but our long arm will reach them nevertheless, generation after generation.

You know, I'm disgusted when dirty little boys run after old women.

it takes as long as three generations of hard work, three generations of sacrifice to correct the wrong!

Mothers and daughters -- it's a comedy, but also a tragedy. We fill our daughters with all the chutzpah we wish for ourselves. We want them to be free as we were not. And then we resent them for being so free. We resent them for being what we have made! With granddaughters, it's so much easier. And great-granddaughters.

Nous avions le temps. Lui, parce qu'il était vieux, moi parce que j'étais jeune. [We had time. Him, because he was old, me because I was young.]

Using rage as fuel for living was a family tradition.

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

Il s'en dégage un bonheur espiègle qu'on associe rarement aux ancêtres disparus. Ils recevaient de la vie moins que nous n'en recevons, mais ils en attendaient beaucoup moins aussi, et ils cherchaient moins que nous à régenter l'avenir. Nous sommes les générations arrogantes qui sont persuadées qu'un bonheur durable leur a été promis à la naissance - promis ? mais par qui donc ? »

I had the chance to meet an extraordinary personality, one of those beings who cross History determined to leave their imprint on the generations to come.

Nous conservons pieusement la légende selon laquelle la transmission se fait « verticalement », d'une génération à la suivante, au sein des familles, des clans, des nations et des communautés de croyants ; alors que la vraie transmission est de plus en plus « horizontale », entre contemporains, qu'ils se connaissent ou pas, qu'ils s'aiment ou se détestent.

But what is a legend if not a story so great it has survived the retelling of countless generations?

We're just a hyphen between our parents and our kids. That's what you learn in middle age. Mostly this is something a mature person can live with. But every once in a while you just want to send up a flare. I too am here! Everybody is sympathetic until you try and make your minuscule life interesting and then they're like, What's wrong with you? You think you're special?

overlapping"—like generations. My lifetime overlaps my grandmother's and hers overlaps the life of her grandmother, but I was born long after the death of both my great- and great-great-grandmothers. Such are the events of Universe; every experience overlaps some but not all other experiences.

For Chinese people, when it comes to parents, nothing is negotiable. Your parents are your parents, you owe everything to them (even if you don't), and you have to do everything for them (even if it destroys your life).

In the beginning was the light and light was with life and the light was life and the earth quickened, and we came out of the ground to yearn forever and never reach the light but to tumble through generations, our skins afire with this lust for the light and we go toward the light or we go toward nothing and we become nothing. That is all.

em pouco tempo poderemos ter o pesadelo de gerações que não conseguem entender a literatura atual porque não conhecem os clássicos que a procedem.

He says nothing. Not because he disagrees, or disapproves, but because he's crying. Faintly I hear my father sniffling and wiping away tears, and I know he's proud, just incapable of expressing it. I can't fault the man for not knowing how to say what's in his heart. It's the family curse.

Three generations from shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves.

It takes three years to build a ship; it takes three centuries to build a tradition.

My granddad was not a tall man but he weighed about 27 stone and my first memory is crawling across his belly. I remember it being a journey.

Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.

In the longer term, immigrants contribute more to the government's coffers than they receive in social spending. Moreover, these programs are not just welfare or a handout, but also an investment, helping ensure that families are healthy, educated, and able to work and support themselves over the course of generations.

Yet, while producing increasingly selfish people, the mantra of the Left, and therefore of the universities and the media, has been for generations that capitalism and the free market, not the welfare state, produces selfish people.