Quotes About Generations

Being in the public eye is easy for me because I come from a family of four generations of teachers, so I'm used to being around books and discussions. But to write, I very much need to be alone.

Climate change is not just about carbon dioxide levels and melting polar ice caps. It is about our public health and protecting our Earth for future generations.

My grandmother didn't live to see us begin our lives in public service. But she probably would have thought it extraordinary that just two generations after she arrived in San Antonio, one grandson would be the mayor and the other would be on his way - the good people of San Antonio willing- to the United States Congress.

I used to carry my father's Bible and put it on the pulpit so he could preach.

Finally, I do not believe that we should punish American families who have worked diligently to provide for themselves and want to pass along their success to their children and grandchildren.

I feel the grandparent-grandchild relationship is one of the most innocent and selfless ones. It is all about pure love and affection.

A characteristic of older folksongs, in most cases, is that we don't know their composers or authors. Older folksongs were written often with no commercial purpose in mind. They were passed down by word of mouth, from generation to generation.

I am somebody who focuses on a dialogue between generations - that's the drive of my work. I believe the young generation take the power; they'll take over at one point, but the older generation, they'll push it away only because of the fear. I'm the opposite; I'm curious.

I'm gonna put a curse on you and all your kids will be born completely naked.

Millions of us, myself included, go back generations in this country, with ancestors who put in the painstaking work to become citizens. So we don't like the notion that anyone might get a free pass to American citizenship.

When I look in the mirror, I sometimes think I'm getting old, but then I have two generations behind me so that helps puts things into perspective. I am a grandmother now, but at least my nine-year-old grandson Jude calls me Glamma and not Granny.

Krishna Raj is being made into 17-18 floors, and all the floors will be with Rishi's family; it's not for sale.

There is a history of footballers in my family; my granddad played for Notts County and my dad played at county level.

Things might change in the sense the world has progressed and we now have social media and other ways to bully each other, but at the heart of everything the problems are all still the same. Things I went through, my mum went through when she was a teenager and her mum went through when she was a teenager, and so on and so forth.

I am the fourth generation of being deaf.

Each of us has a family tree full of stories inside of us, Dirk thought. Each of us has a story blossoming out of us.

Dick got up to Zurich on less Achilles' heels than would be required to equip a centipede, but with plenty—the illusions of eternal strength and health, and of the essential goodness of people; illusions of a nation, the lies of generations of frontier mothers who had to croon falsely, that there were no wolves outside the cabin door.

What is the son but an extension of the father?

He had never known the Atreides grandfather whose name this child had taken.

Drugs will turn you into your parents.

The reason why people still come to Tech N9ne shows is because they never know what to expect. They know it's gonna be something wild. From generation to generation, I've seen it. The parents are bringing the kids, and then the kids start comin' themselves. It's crazy, man.

Part of what makes South Carolina so beautiful is the land we conserve for wildlife and for future generations.

I'm actually named Matthew William Kearney: my middle name is named after my grandfather.

There's a Dar Williams song about 'houses that are haunted, with the kids who lie awake and think about other generations past who used to use that dripping sink.' I was one of those kids.