Quotes About Generations

I wonder if it won't be the same with the children as it has been with us. No matter how long each one of them lives, won't their lives feel to them unfinished like ours, only just beginning? I wonder how far they will go. And then their children will grow up and it will be the same with them. Unfinished lives. Oh, dearie, what children all of us are.

We need better cooperation between generations. A number of the old guard believe their relationships with those following in their footsteps is more collaborative than it actually is. Those next in line sometimes feel as if their elders are more interested in being paternal than being partners. Moving forward together will require leaders to subjugate their egos. They'll need to find at least one common interest that allows both generations to bring their strengths to the table.

Reading church history and allowing it to influence our worldview reassures us not only that God has promised to be with us, but that he has delivered on this promise to every generation of believers regardless of the trials and tribulations of their time.

In every generation, ever since Negroes have been here, every Negro mother and father has had to face that child and try to create in that child some way of surviving this particular world, some way to make the child who will be despised not despise himself. I don't know what "the Negro Problem" means to white people, but this is what it means to Negroes.

Just twelve years after the last major legislation of the Great Society—the Fair Housing Act of 1968—aimed, however clumsily, at addressing inequalities produced by generations of racist policies, the country elected a president whose charge was to dismantle it all.

There has never been a mechanism, through something like a truth and reconciliation commission, for telling ourselves the truth about what we have done in a way that would broadly legitimate government policies to repair systemic discrimination across generations. Instead, we pine for national rituals of expiation that wash away our guilt without the need for an admission of guilt,

Gran, I love you," Sarah said, "but your blind adherence to the dominant culture's values makes me want to scream.

On the green they watched their sons Playing till too dark to see, As their fathers watched them once, As my father once watched me

That's it! We belong to the nineteen hundreds, Vaughan, and Dike and Lina and even Madam, old as she is. But Mike and Reggie and kids like that, why, they're demi-siècle, they're half century, they belong to the two thousands. It scares you, it sounds so far away—but not to them. They'll have the job of fixing up all our mistakes, the demi-siècle boys and girls will. We're tail end of an era.

Acabo de entender que el fútbol no es ni más ni menos que eso. Eso que me dio mi viejo, y que yo le paso a mi hijo. Ese amor gratuito, esa esperanza desbocada. Ese dolor, esa rabia, esa fe rotunda en que, alguna vez, habrá revancha

Your face encompasses the beauty of the whole earth. Your lips, as red as ripening fruit, gently part as if in pain. It is the smile of a corpse. Now the hand of death touches life. The chain is forged that links the thousand families that are dead to the thousand generations to come.

Badly off as the men...were in your day, they were more fortunate than their mothers and wives.

Hope is still ahead of you - but someday it will be behind you. That's really the point of children, to have someone to pin hope to.

I conceive that the land belongs to a vast family of which many are dead, few are living, and countless numbers are still unborn.

Newlyweds become oldyweds, and oldyweds are the reasons that families work.

Grandparents are a delightful blend of laughter, caring deeds, wonderful stories, and love.

Grandfathers are for loving and fixing things.

The fathers have eaten a sour grape, and the children's teeth are set on edge.

Mothers and daughters are closest, when daughters become mothers.

The best place to be when you're sad is Grandpa's lap.

This day [Passover] shall be unto you for a memorial; and ye shall keep it a feast to the Lord throughout your generations.

For he hath regarded the low estate of his handmaiden: for, behold, from henceforth all generations shall call me blessed.

Grandmother — a wonderful mother with lots of practice.

When you teach your son, you teach your son's son.