Quotes About Generations

Three of my children are medical doctors, they know at least a hundred times as much about your body as my grandfather knew, but they don't know much more about soul than he did.

Almost every Division I college football team predates the oldest NFL teams by three or four decades. Most schools built their current stadiums before most NFL teams built their first—or second, or third. College football is one of those few passions we have in common with our great-grandparents.

Yes, I'm his mother. We come in at the beginning and the end. The rest of the time they're too grand for us.

The law of God is not made the rule of life. The children, as they make homes of their own, feel under no obligation to teach their children what they themselves have never been taught.

Note: whoever that longs to be remembered or celebrated by the posterity (all future generations) ahead should always have the posterity in mind. In other words, he or she should always have the best interest of the posterity at heart (in whatever he or she does or says). ~Emeasoba George

Time passes, memories fade, fashion changes, humans are born and they die eventually. But, guess what? thought-provoking quotes, motivations, inspirations, words of wisdom, encouragement, insights and ideas like mine will surely live on throughout the posterity ahead (all future generations ahead). -Emeasoba George

I launched The Emeril Lagasse Foundation to provide culinary training, and developmental and educational programs to children in the cities where my restaurants operate. I think everyone has a responsibility to give back to the community if they can, and to help future generations learn new skills.

Children turn, and must turn, against their parents, and the parents can do nothing about it, for they are subject to a law which decrees the relations among all the living: i.e., that each engenders his own enemy.

A son is a son 'til he gets a wife, but a daughter is a daughter all her life.

The work of nature in making generations is a patchwork—part resemblance, part contrast.

Singular creature, he had never cared to find out a single relative among four generations counted on the female side. The thought of his heirs was abhorrent to him; and the idea that his wealth could pass into other hands after his death simply inconceivable.

God would have been strangely unjust had he confined the testimony of his power to certain generations and peoples and denied them to others. The brazen rod belongs to all.

It seemed a shame to have you losing a chance to use those good manners you learned from your grandmother.

He described how, as a boy of 14, his dad had been down the mining pit, his uncle had been down the pit, his brother had been down the pit, and of course he would go down the pit.

All women become like their mothers.

he couldn't deny the unexpected rush of pleasure at the pairing of his great-nephew with Lizbet Blythe's granddaughter. "One for you, Sam!" Daisy Vashon exclaimed from behind his right shoulder. The five of them—Sam, Daisy, JW Sterling, Lizbet and Hannah Sprite—were clustered around the computer screen in his garage at the Sunny Autumn Seniors Community in Port Aidin, Florida. "Logan Edwards and Jade Korrigan," Hannah read aloud from behind

Then, suddenly, I reach out and wrap my granddad's hand in mine, like he once held mine, and for a while, the anger inside me quiets.

You can count on Social Security, and with every fiber of my being, I will make sure it is there not only for my generation, but for my children's generation and for my grandchild's generation.

Maybe not. But maybe that's how the world changes, Isaiah. One father, one child, at a time.

My mother says I should be nice to everyone. Either school was different when she was young or she just doesn't remember.

The generation that comes next is always going to rebel against the generation that came before, and they're always going to be at odds with each other.

I'm a kind of double-breasted rebel in that I've always believed the important thing is that generations react against one another. For instance, there was always something oddly creative about the fact that Hanoverian sons hated their fathers so much.

I was raised cooking my grandmother's food, my mom's recipes.

There is so much more than ingredients that go into home cooking. A home-cooked meal includes so much love and recipes that have been passed down through generations, and that is what I truly appreciate.