Quotes About Generations

The simplest toy, one which even the youngest child can operate, is called a grandparent.

Funny how we talk about our roots when our people have been here for generations." "Interesting, too," Anna said, "how we're not really divided according to our nationalities, but by how much or how little money we have. Most of the differences are acquired, they depend on what money can buy you.

Dije que los libros transtornan, especialmente a las mujeres, y conté de la madre de Susana que leyó unas cuantas páginas en su vida pero eso bastó para que lo abandonara todo, de Susana que siempre soñó con escribir aunque fuera sólo uno, de mi madre que me crió obedeciendo al pie de la letra las instrucciones de varios, de mí que partí a un país lejano y desconocido en busca de lo que ellos ofrecen y de mi hija que ni los mira.

Raven was... Becky? And Beck was the Mercers'... daughter? And Grandma Mercer was her and Sutton's great-grandmother?

None of them were recent, but that was the nature of family stories. They had to be far enough in the past that they took on a mythic quality.

The generations of men run on in the tide of time, but leave their destined lineaments permanent for ever and ever.

In the family sandwich, the older people and the younger ones can recognize one another as the bread. Those in the middle are, for a time, the meat.

At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks.

Each time we plant a seed, we become ancestors for the generations to come.

What does not wasting time change! The age of our parents, worse than that of our grandsires, has brought us forth more impious still, and we shall produce a more vicious progeny.

Entire generations of Americans have come of age since the ancient time when the president's power was constrained by a duty of candor to the American people.

Corporate tax dodging impacts us across generations and over time. It is corrosive. It is unethical. It is unsustainable.

I didn't realize until I was older what a huge music fan my daddy really was, and actually that my grandma played banjo at one time, and I didn't even know that until a year or two ago.

People resemble still more the time in which they live, than they resemble their fathers.

Never say [to younger people] "that was before your time," because the last full moon was before their time!

Not every age allows its sons to reap the results which remain great for all time, and . . . not every century is fitted to make the men who live in it distinguished and happy.

History is the daughter of time.

I don't put off any time with my grandchildren. I don't put off a thing.

There is no time so short as the time between when your kids stop wrecking your furniture and your grandchildren start.

It is time for the next generations to continue our struggle against social injustice and for the rights of humanity. It is in your hands.

Country music is still your grandpa's music, but it's also your daughter's music. It's getting bigger and better all the time and I'm glad to be a part of it.

Let's bring back grandmothers! A real family consists of three generations. It's time Americans stopped worrying about interference and being a burden on the children and regrouped under one roof.

It's time to respect the treaties our ancestors signed and care for our land, water, and cultures so that they remain healthy for our future generations.

ancient thought forms of oppression and domination have reappeared among us. And we, like generations before us, are called upon to respond.