Quotes About Generations

I'm a family guy. Most important thing in my life by far is my relationship with my wife and my sons, daughters-in-law, and 18 grandchildren. And for me, this is all about them.

I could enjoy the life that I had by virtue of the educational attainment that my grandparents and parents had pursued. Education was always incredibly valued in our family.

Wisdom is a living stream, not an icon to be preserved in a museum. Only when a practitioner finds the spring of wisdom in his or her own life can it flow to a future generation

A child who has a grandparent has a softened view of life, the feeling that there is more to life than what we see, more than getting and gaining, winning and losing.

The moral imperative of life is to live a life that detracts not at all from the lives available to those who will follow us into this world.

O, Youth: Do you know that yours is not the first generation to yearn for a life full of beauty and freedom?

The chain of life runs smoothly from one generation to the next and none of the links stand out except here and there a link one sees by accident.

Just about the time a woman thinks her work is done, she becomes a grandmother.

O God, the Rock of Ages, who evermore hast been, what time the tempest rages, our dwelling place serene: before thy first creations, O Lord, the same as now, to endless generations the Everlasting Thou!

when the Internet made it possible, I was in touch with her daughter, Marylyn, who was living in a mobile home in Utah with a companion. She was the grandmother of eighteen children and the great-grandmother of twenty-two. In what she said online, Marylyn had nothing but kind words to say about both parents, upsetting my conviction, after reading Mary's memoir, that Daddy was the bad guy.

The sequoias belong to the silences of the milleniums. Many of them have seen a hundred human generations rise, give off their little clamors and perish. They seem indeed to be forms of immortality standing here amoing the transitory shapes of time.

Love is such central chemistry that creates generations to transfer knowledge for discovering the secrets of the universe and life.

Love is such central chemistry that creates generations to transfer knowledge for discovering the secrets.

Natural sex is a charity of love, which creates generations.

Justice is based on values. And those change every generation.

it possible that our parents never die, that every child inevitably conceals them in himself? Would my mother truly emerge from me, with her limping gait, as my destiny?

I had been a girl who felt lost, this was true. All the hopes of youth seemed to have been destroyed, I seemed to be falling backwards towards my mother, my grandmother, the chain of mute or angry women I came from. Missed opportunities.

For the survivor who chooses to testify, it is clear: his duty is to bear witness for the dead and for the living. He has no right to deprive future generations of a past that belongs to our collective memory. To forget would be not only dangerous but offensive; to forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.

On language—from the mother tongue came our father's sins.

By not dealing with past human rights violations, we are not simply protecting the perpetrators' trivial old age ; we are thereby ripping the foundations of justice from beneath new generations.

Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them

There are often many generations buried in every front yard—which makes it a lot harder to sell the family farm and move to California.

People talking big about the passion in each profession and at every occasion has been always in fashion since old generations but very rarely seen in any employed person.

The basic nature of people has always been the same in all generations, only more people have started understanding one another better now because of an internet era.