Quotes About Generations

we do not inherit the world from our parents; we borrow it from our children.

The very emphasis of the commandment: Thou shalt not kill, makes it certain that we are descended from an endlessly long chain of generations of murderers, whose love of murder was in their blood as it is perhaps also in ours.

la importancia intelectual de un profesor académico nos trae consigo necesariamente aquel influjo sobre las jóvenes generaciones que se exterioriza en la creación de una escuela importante y numerosa.

Her granny used to say, We've always been poor as Job's turkey and most likely always will be.

The European, the aristocrat, feels that he is responsible to past generations to carry on the culture they have formed. He feels that graciousness, agreeable manners, loyalty to his own people, are more important

O the generations of men92 the dying generations—adding the total of all your lives I find they come to nothing

O the generations of men the dying generations—adding the total of all your lives I find they come to nothing

If the generations of man passed through the world like a ship passing through the sea and the wind over the desert—a fruitless and a vain thing; if eternal oblivion were ever greedily watching for its prey and there existed no power strong enough to wrest it from its clutches—how empty were life then, and how dismal!

My parents had an experience of life that is as opposite to mine as you can imagine.

Never experiencing the life of the mind scars entire families for generations.

As I celebrate life, I can't help but think how young my mom was when she died of a heart attack at 53. My mom didn't get to meet her grandchildren, but I'm determined to watch mine grow up.

Poverty is a curse. Don't call it. It takes few generations to come out from the curse of poverty.

Grandchildren are their grandparents' toys.

Migration is the story of my life: my parents and grandparents journeyed across four continents to flee war and find jobs, eventually finding their way to the U.S.

Burn the book. It serves you once.Read the book. Serves you for a lifetime.Lend the book. It serves for generations to come.

Every person will become three time child in their life.One when they are child, Second when they become parents and third when they become grandparents.It's never be gone.

Eisenhower also sounded the clarion call for generational responsibility: 'As we peer into society's future, we--you and I, and our government--must avoid the impulse to live only for today, plundering our own ease and convenience, the precious resources of tomorrow. We cannot mortgage the material assets of our grandchildren without asking the loss also of their political and spiritual heritage. We want democracy to survive for all generations to come.

History is a story we learn, add on our own chapter, and then pass to the next generation.

the first responsibility of a human being is to be a better ancestor.

There are fathers who do not love their children, but there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson. —Victor Hugo

Say to the next generation again and again: God is truthful; God keeps his word; God does not lie; God can be trusted! That's one blessing of Advent. Receive it as a wonderful Christmas gift, and give it to as many people as you can.

I am a warrior, so that my son may be a merchant, so that his son may be a poet.

By provoking separate studies of monumental male nudes in self-consciously handsome postures, he established the curriculum for generations of imitators.

Architects Shreve, Lamb & Harmon "endowed it with such clean beauty, such purity of line, such subtle uses of material, that we believe it will be studied by many generations of architects, a hazardous prophecy in these days of change.