Quotes About Generations

In Aditya Chopra's old office, there used to hang a poster of DDLJ with the following inscription by Shah Rukh Khan: "More than half my career ago, you gave me a dream to cherish all my life. My kids will see it, my grandchildren will love it and I'm sure even in heaven they are playing our film – so my parents would have seen it too. Thanx for taking me to them and making me the star I'm today. Lots of love and come let's make some more dreams together.

Little things like time and generations don't matter very much with good friends who are fond of each other's company.

Do not bandy words with your father, nor treat him as a dotard, nor reproach the old man, who has cherished you, with his age.

Again, men in general desire the good, and not merely what their fathers had.

Yet what I sowed and what the orchard yieldsMy brother's sons are gathering stalk and root,Small wonder then my children glean in fieldsThey have not sown, and feed on bitter fruit.

Posterity is the patriotic name for grandchildren.

At this stage, most of the awards I get are concerned with my longevity. Even I'm amazed at myself because there have been new generations since I've been born and new music that they create, so it's amazing to still be on the radar.

The Caribbean world has changed radically since the 1960s, and postcolonial generations have very different mentalities from those that went before.

Our parents came home one day and heard us, and they thought it was the radio, but our grandfather told them it was us.

I watch 'Singin' in the Rain' at least once a year with my grandchildren, and they just adore it.

I'd like my grandkids to be able to watch PBS. But I'm not willing to borrow money from China, and make my kids have to pay the interest on that, and my grandkids, over generations, as opposed to saying to PBS, 'Look, you're going to have to raise more money from charitable contributions or from advertising.'

The evidence that I see around me in society indicates that not only is thinking very much out of favor, but I'm not sure that the last couple of generations - Generation X and Generation Next, or whatever you want to call them - even know what a thought is, having been raised to be women.

My roots are from Iran and so, I cook Iranian dishes that have been passed down the generations in our family. I was born and raised in India and enjoy cooking Indian food, too.

I've an enormous respect for my mother who at the age of 39 raised three children, and I grew up with my grandmother in the household. And so it was a really strong household of women - my poor brother! It was great growing up with so many generations of women.

My grandmother raised me. She was a real no-nonsense but very funny lady. I drove tractors, made hay, milked cows, fed the chicken, fed the pigs.

There was a lot of brokenness in my family. Let's just say that I was raised by my grandparents.

I'm still raising kids myself, so I don't feel like a grandpa.

My grandfather did a lot of things in his life. What he was most proud of was raising his family.

Perhaps the soundest advice for parents is: Lighten up. People have been raising children for approximately as long as there have been people.

I was a class clown. My father was a class clown. My son has been a class clown, and it sort of ran in the family.

My grandparents - both of my mother's parents - were actors, and they ran the Reading Repertory Theatre Company, through the town of Reading, where I come from.

My father, John, ran the Dowd Insurance Co. in town, which was started by his great-grandfather. My mother, Dolores, was a homemaker who kept an eye on all of us.

Every generation inherits a world it never made; and, as it does so, it automatically becomes the trustee of that world for those who come after. In due course, each generation makes its own accounting to its children.

Generational thinking has always been reductive and condescending.