Quotes About Generations

I don't care if he's your grand mother

Our Founding Fathers, faced with perils we can scarcely imagine, drafted a charter to assure the rule of law and the rights of man, a charter expanded by the blood of generations. Those ideals still light the world, and we will not give them up for expedience's sake.

And under the fanning shade of the mango tree, as hands wove black curls into even rows, I heard all our voices begin to run together, the sound of three generations tumbling over each other like the currents of a slow-moving stream, my questions like rocks roiling the water, the breaks in memory separating the currents, but always the voices returning to that single course, a single story Ã¢â'¬Â¦.

I'm not yet ready to abandon the possibility of America—not just for the sake of future generations of Americans but for all of humankind.

For if there is any single thing that everyone hopes for most dearly, it must be this: that the youngest outlive the oldest.

Human manners are wildly inconsistent; plenty of people have said so. But this one takes the cake: the manner in which we're allowed to steal from future generations, while commanding them not to do that to us, and rolling our eyes at anyone who is tediously PC enough to point that out. The conspicious consumption of limited resources has yet to be accepted widely as a spirtual error, or even bad manners.

The last generations's worst fears become the next one's B-grade entertainment.

So Noah cursed all Ham's children to be slaves forever and ever. That's how come them to turn out dark

I shall turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers.

but small towns have long memories and pass their horrors down ceremonially from generation to generation.

History is the collective and ancestral shit of the human race, a great big and ever-growin pile of crap. Right now we're standin at the top of it, but pretty soon we'll be buried under the doodoo of generations yet to come. That's why folks' clothes look so funny in old photographs, to name but a single example. And, as someone who's destined to be buried beneath the shit of your children and grandchildren, I think you should be just a leetle more forgiving.

Life is no brief candle to me. It's a sort of splendid torch which I've got to hold up for the moment and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

Grandparents who show a great interest in their grandchildren are among the most precious people on this earth. What

Perhaps, in utilizing our human capacity to build on the foundation of generations before us, we have inadvertently become so focused on our own building that we have forgotten the foundation that holds it up; or in reaping for so long where we have not sown, perhaps we have forgotten the need to sow.

economist Friedrich Hayek observed, "If old truths are to retain their hold on men's minds, they must be restated in the language and concepts of successive generations

The shift is not toward complacency: we enjoy the peace we find today because people in past generations were appalled by the violence in their time and worked to reduce it, and so we should work to reduce the violence that remains in our time.

The peak age of poisoning deaths in 2011 was around fifty, up from the low forties in 2003, the late thirties in 1993, the early thirties in 1983, and the early twenties in 1973.57 Do the subtractions and you find that in every decade it's the members of the generation born between 1953 and 1963 who are drugging themselves to death.

we enjoy the peace we find today because people in past generations were appalled by the violence in their time and worked to reduce it, and so we should work to reduce the violence that remains in our time.

To appreciate this burden, one doesn't have to believe that we are cavemen out of time, only that evolution, with its speed limit measured in generations, could not possibly have adapted our brains to modern technology and institutions

In our families we learn to love and to recognise the dignity of all, especially of the elderly

Churches all over the country have decided they love their traditions more than their children.

A food truce, the picnic suspension of oedipal feeling that permits the generations to love each other at family reunions.

Always and Forever is a Grandmothers love

I love my daughter, but there's a certain feeling, a certain emotion when you got a granddaughter, you know?