Quotes About Generations

Moses knows that prosperity breeds amnesia.

How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.

No matter how dark the cloud, there is always a thin, silver lining, and that is what we must look for. The silver lining will come, if not to us then to next generation or the generation after that. And maybe with that generation the lining will no longer be thin.

Perfect love sometimes does not come until the first grandchild.

In the future, I will have grandchildren who speak Dutch, Swedish, and Spanish. If they don't learn Arabic, they will be strangers to each other. They won't have any traces of where we came from. They won't be Syrian. And I will live in exile and die in exile.

I put the copy of 'A Christmas Carol' that my grandfather had first read to me 60 years ago on my desk, and I began to write. The result, for better or for worse, is the 'Christmas Spirits.' I plan to read it to my grandson.

Few sons are the equals of their fathers; most fall short, all too few surpass them." —

The father knows the son whole, but the son can never know the father.

The furniture came into the house when Mamaw and Granddad Bromont were alive, had been in use since Mom was a child, and the lumpy stuffing and worn fabric yet held the scent of Granddad's pipe tobacco and ten thousand dusty days.

My grandma was the scariest person I'd ever met, and I could not imagine any man having the ability to terrify me more than her.

Those who came before us, with their family names and genetic legacies, with their physical peculiarities, whether it be albino skin or brown eyes—none of this mattered. Family was who we loved and who we protected. Family was the tribe we created here and now.

Young pigs grunt as as old pigs grunted before them.

But over four generations, the Soviet regime forced Jews to participate in and internalize their own humiliation—and in that way, Ala suggested, they destroyed far more souls. And they never, ever paid for it.

That is what grandchildren are for — so that the old may also dream, a promise of a future in return for the lost past.

but just let me tell you what Kadie did the other day …" Death Bird waited with ill-concealed impatience until Rap's tale was complete. Without even a smile at the punchline, he launched into a dull and pointless account of how his oldest son, Blood Beak, had killed his first bear.

A good man leaves an inheritance to his children's children" (Prov. 13:22 NKJV). I

If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.

I never saw my dad cry. My son saw me cry. My dad never told me he loved me, and consequently I told Scott I loved him every other minute. The point is, I'll make less mistakes than my dad, my sons hopefully will make less mistakes than me, and their sons will make less mistakes than their dads.

Perhaps people, and kids especially, are spoiled today, because all the kids today have cars, it seems. When I was young you were lucky to have a bike.

The adult Feynman asked: If all scientific knowledge were lost in a cataclysm, what single statement would preserve the most information for the next generations of creatures?

If you don't tell your kids/grandkids what God has done for you, don't expect their hearts to be captured by your God! Worst

Son of a Clemson football star turned banker.

Generations of historians have agreed with Holmes, pointing to Roosevelt's self-assured, congenial, optimistic temperament as the keystone to his leadership success.

How children dance," Rainer Maria Rilke wrote, "to the unlived lives of their parents