Quotes About Generations

Parenthood is the passing of a baton, followed by a lifelong disagreement as to who dropped it.

Huan was born and raised in the House of Aladon, and his family for eleven generations before him, yet even he could be a Listener.

The single most powerful asset we all have is our mind. If it is trained well, it can create enormous wealth seemingly instantaneously. An untrained mind can also create extreme poverty that can crush a family for generations.

Rich dad said that financial intelligence determined, not so much how much money you make, but how much money you keep, how hard that money works for you, and how many generations you can keep it.

and that income can be passed on for generations to come.

My best friend, Mike, had an asset column handed to him, but he still had to choose to learn to keep it. Many rich families lose their assets in the next generation simply because there was no one trained to be a good steward over their assets.

It's not how much money you make, but how much money you keep, how hard it works for you, and how many generations you keep it for.

And while I am glad some people have become richer and richer, I caution them that in the long run, it's not how much money you make. It's how much you keep, and for how many generations you keep it.

For each new generation of entrepreneurs, it takes less time and less capital to become billionaires, due to the advent of new networks.

La inteligencia financiera no se refiere tanto a cuánto dinero gane usted, sino cuánto dinero puede usted conservar, qué tan duro trabaja ese dinero para usted y para cuántas generaciones lo ha conservado.

it's not how much money you make. It's how much you keep, and for how many generations you keep it.

Once a dollar goes into it, never let it come out. Think of it this way: Once a dollar goes into your asset column, it becomes your employee. The best thing about money is that it works 24 hours a day and can work for generations.

It's not how much you make but how much you keep—and how many generations you keep it.

Walter's eyes were very wonderful. All the joy and sorrow and laughter and loyalty and aspirations of many generations lying under the sod looked out of their dark-gray depths.

But is there not something strange about any room that has been occupied through generations? Death has lurked in it…love has been rosy red in it…births have been here…all the passions…all the hopes. It is full of wraths.

Anne sewed and planned little winter wardrobes...Nan must have a red dress, since she is so set on it...and sometimes thought of Hannah, weaving her little coat every year for the small Samuel. Mothers were the same all through the centuries...a great sisterhood of love and service...the remembered and the unremembered alike.

Well, James Matthew is a name that will wear well and not fade in the washing, said Miss Cornelia. I'm glad you didn't load him down with some highfalutin, romantic name that he'd be ashamed of when he gets to be a grandfather...

was a phrase my mother inherited from her mother. I had heard Grandma Anglund use it for occasions ranging from a scraped knee (mine) to a family burned out of its farm.

Boff," Agent Brent said. "I didn't know people used that word anymore." "You young whippersnappers just don't know a good piece of slang when you hear it

So they went to sea because it was their livelihood, and in all likelihood their fathers' before them;

Science is a collaborative enterprise, spanning the generations. When it permits us to see the far side of some new horizon, we remember those who prepared the way - seeing for them also.

Young people must be included from birth. A society that cuts itself off from its youth severs its lifeline; it is condemned to bleed to death.

I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.

Alles zerfällt im Augenblicke, wenn man nicht ein Dasein erschaffen hat, das über dem Sarge noch fortdauert. Um wen bei seinem Alter Söhne, Enkel und Urenkel stehen, der wird oft tausend Jahre alt.