Quotes About Generations

Immigrants have been coming to our shores for generations to live the dream that is America. They wanted better for their children than for themselves. That remains the dream of all of us, and in this country, we have seen time and again that that dream is achievable.

When I was in high school, I used to have breakfast with my grandpa every morning. He instilled a lot of values in me: hard work, loyalty. He grew up during the Great Depression in Philly in poverty - he didn't have enough to eat as a kid. Sometimes his family would get kicked out of their apartment because they couldn't pay the rent.

'Rent' resonates with people across generations because it's really great art.

To many generations of fans, Hulk Hogan really represents the beginning of what became this amazing industry that we have.

He only half dies who leaves an image of himself in his sons.

I come from an immigrant culture. I'm only a couple of generations away from having been a servant girl myself.

My great-great-grandfather lived to age 28, my immigrant great-grandfather Pedro Gotiaoco died at 66, my grandfather was 68, and my father died at 34.

We say this is a land of immigrants, and we forget that this was a land that belonged to people. And those of us who are new immigrants and those of us who come from generations of immigrants have to realize we are not that much different from one another.

George's contribution to the great archive of contemporary music rests alongside the immortals. His is a legacy of unquestionable brilliance and one which will continue to shine and resonate for generations to come.

Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of.

I've still got to go and see the world, but I will come back to Australia in the end, when I have my family, in many moons to come.

I'm Korean-American. Not Colombian. My parents are first-generation, and I'm like... in-between, because I moved over here when I was four or five.

Generations of heroic Americans have made America more inclusive, more expansive, and more just.

I'm incredibly sad that my mother's not here to see my kids and that my kids don't get to know her. And she didn't meet my husband. That's one of the hardest things. I don't even know how to put that into words.

I don't think I will ever make my all-time greatest India team. You cannot compare one era with another, as they will be different.

My grandfather was born in India and three generations of my family served there.

La mort des parents ne devient définitive que le jour où leur enfants ne sont plus là pour les évoquer. Alors la mémoire de ce qu'ils étaient vraiment s'abolit. Ils survivront, brumeux, dans les souvenirs de leurs petits-enfants, qui ne les auront connus que vieux

Men, as they acquire experience, lose the faculties that might enable them to turn it to account: it is not so with times: the stock of wisdom acquired by ages is a stock transmitted through a vast number of generations, from men in the perfection of their faculties to others also in the perfection of their faculties.

You don't blame the children for the sins of the father and all of that.

Winsome likes the fact that Rachel is curious enough to know who her grandmother was before she was a mother, when she was a person in her own right, as she described it except she never has been, first she was a daughter, then a wife and mother, and now also a grandmother and great-grandmother.

I wish you were around to be her grandma, to tell her what it was like for you growing up, and stories about me from when I was too young to remember

Winsome has listened to her grandchildren's lives since they could speak, and they've never asked about her she understands that young people are consumed by themselves, and her role is to comfort and reassure and be caring towards them when their parents are cross with them

We don't want to see our kids and grandchildren be the first generation in the modern history of America to have a lower standard of living than their parents.

And so they discussed it seriously, Abbie who knew that one may laugh with a child but at him, and Laura, who knew that Grandma was one unfailing source of sympathy and understanding in a world which was beginning to be critical.