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Quotes About Generations

The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
~ Clarence Darrow
I've learned... That when your newly born grandchild holds your little finger in his little fist, that you're hooked for life.
~ Andy Rooney
Cinema gives you the opportunity to be both a grandparent and a grandchild whereas in life you cannot be both at the same time.
~ Abbas Kiarostami
I was the girl who nobody thought would ever get married. I was going to be a fashion nun the rest of my life. There are generations of them, those fashion nuns, living, eating, breathing clothes.
~ Vera Wang
Tanr? verdi, Tanr? ald?, demiÅŸti kad?na büyükannesi mezar çukurunun ba??nda.
~ Jenny Erpenbeck
Seventeen's not so young. A hundred years ago people got married when they were practically our age." "Yeah, that was before electricity and the Internet. A hundred years ago eighteen-year-old guys were out there fighting wars with bayonets and holding a man's life in their hands! They lived a lot of life by the time they were our age. What do kids our age know about love and life?
~ Jenny Han
I love your dress!" Kendra says to me. "Thank you!" I say. "It's vintage." She recoils in real horror. " Oh my God. Are the nineties considered vintage now?" Trina says, "Yes, girl. Their nineties are our seventies." She shudders. "That's terrifying. Are we old?" "We're geriatric," Trina says, but cheerfully.
~ Jenny Han
There's a Korean word my grandma taught me. It's called jung. It's the connection between two people that can't be severed, even when love turns to hate. You still have those old feelings for them; you can't ever completely shake them loose of you; you will always have tenderness in your heart for them. I think this must be some part of what I feel for Genevieve. Jung is why I can't hate her. We're tied.
~ Jenny Han
Hay una palabra coreana que me enseñó mi abuela. Se llama jung. Es un vínculo entre dos personas que no puede cortarse, incluso cuando el amor se convierte en odio.
~ Jenny Han
There is a picture of my mother holding me as a baby, a look of naked love on her face. For years, it embarrassed me. Now there is a picture of me with my daughter looking exactly the same way.
~ Jenny Offill
Your success is mandatory, there's someone who has not been born or conceived yet, that's waiting on your story
~ Jeremy Holmes
Generations of human beings were transformed into machines in the relentless pursuit of material wealth: We lived to work.
~ Jeremy Rifkin
Deuteronomy 29:29, "The secret things belong to the LORD our God, but the things revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may follow all the words of this law.
~ Jerry Bridges
With faith and courage, generations of Armenians have overcome great suffering and proudly preserved their culture, traditions, and religion and have told the story of the genocide to an often indifferent world.
~ Jerry Costello
We're facing the first-ever reversal in retirement security in modern U.S. history," she explained. "Starting with the younger baby boomers, each successive generation is now doing worse than previous generations in terms of their ability to retire without seeing a drop in living standards.
~ Jessica Bruder
Families survive, one way or another. You have a tie, a connection that exists long after death, through many lifetimes.
~ Jessica Lange
El hombre sólo puede ser humano en un clima en el que pueda esperar que él y sus hijos vivirán para ver el año siguiente y muchos más años por vivir.
~ Erich Fromm
But the first death we saw shattered this belief. We had to recognize that our generation was more to be trusted than theirs. They surpassed us only in phrases and in cleverness. The first bombardment showed us our mistake, and under it the world as they had taught it to us broke in pieces.
~ Erich Maria Remarque
We do to our children what was done to us.
~ Erika Schickel
I thought that all generations were lost by something and always had been and always would be
~ Ernest Hemingway
Pensé que todas las generaciones se pierden por algo y siempre se han perdido y siempre se perderán.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Kelly stepped out from behind him and my father showed more emotion. Parents always give their grandchildren more affection, I thought. It's as if when their children reach a certain age, that display has to be constricted and put into storage until the grandchildren come along and it can be revived.
~ Andrew Neiderman
the land belonged to all of the generations of the family, including those yet unborn, and there was a duty to them.
~ Andrew Wareham
To jest tak, jakby? te wszystkie znajomo?ci dosta? w spadku. Po rodzicach, po dziadkach, pradziadkach. Tak to dzia?a. W?a?ciwie to ich nie znasz, ale znasz.
~ Andrzej Stasiuk