Quotes About Generations

From Luxembourg, for instance, came a seventy-nine-year-old man with two grandsons, one fourteen, the other fifteen. They were now sharing the same luck, the same hardships, the same worries.

You are like fireworks. You go out into your children, your friends, your society, and the whole world.

Your grandchildren will likely find it incredible - or even sinful - that you burned up a gallon of gasoline to fetch a pack of cigarettes!

Aging in women is 'unbeautiful' since women grow more powerful with time, and since the links between generations of women must always be broken.

Once the fabric of a just society is undone, it takes generations to weave it back together.

Education is the bane of life, the foundation of society and the liberation of generations.

Every generation is a secret society and has incommunicable enthusiasm tastes and interests which are a mystery both to its predecessor and to posterity.

Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.

I heard stories from my mother's mother who was an American Indian. She was spiritual, although she did not go to church, but she had the hum. She used to tell me stories of the rivers.

My whole family is spiritual. My grandmother, grand aunt, cousins, they're all preachers and pastors. Spirituality is a part of my family, from generations ago.

Adam lived 930 years. He never got to know his mother in law.

It's a wonderful feeling to be a bridge to the past and to unite generations. The sport of baseball does that, and I am just a part of it.

My family actually lived in the same village for about 400 years. They had great stability until the last century. People lived and intermarried in small villages.

Grandchildren now don't write a thank you for the Christmas presents. They are walking on their pants with their cap on backward, listening to the Enema Man and Snoopy, Snoopy Poop Dog.

Bear in mind that the wonderful things you learn in your schools are the work of many generations. All this is put in your hands as your inheritance in order that you may receive it, honor it, add to it, and one day faithfully hand it on to your children.

our death is not an end if we can live on in our children and the younger generation. For they are us, our bodies are only wilted leaves on the tree of life

Geschichten sind unser Gedächtnis, Bibliotheken die Lagerstätten für dieses Gedächtnis und Lesen das Handwerk, mit dem wir dieses Gedächtnis neu erschaffen können, indem wir es rezitieren und glossieren, es wieder in unsere eigene Erfahrung rückübersetzen und so auf dem aufbauen, was frühere Generationen für bewahrenswert hielten.

That would have been taken out of the Munrowe voice two or three generations ago through being educated at schools that modelled themselves on the English public-school system, even if they were in Scotland.

There lies the cause of the rapid decline of our nobility: the grandfather was rich, the son is in need, the grandson goes begging.

Why should cattle have the gift of freedom? Their heritage from generation to generation is the belled yoke and the lash.

For too many generations of the common people of Rome were allowed no hand in governing, and their state religion had long since mummified into dry rituals that never touched ordinary passions. It was inevitable, proclaimed the dour scholars of the philosophical schools, that the Colosseum would become their chief temple and the fortunes of gladiators would be watched more closely than the rise and fall of nations.

And I add my own love to the history of people who have loved beautiful things, and looked out for them, and pulled them from the fire, and sought them when they were lost, and tried to preserve them and save them while passing them along literally from hand to hand, singing out brilliantly from the wreck of time to the next generation of lovers, and the next.

I wanted to write about my mother as she should have been if she had not been messed up by World War I.

I stirred my coffee and looked at my beautiful grandson. What a great gift he was to all of us. It was so wonderful to have a young person like Charlie in my life