Quotes About Generations

One of the most powerful handclasps is that of a new grandbaby around the finger of a grandfather.

She exists in me now, just as I will and already do within my grandchildren. No one ever truly dies. The desires of our hearts make a path. We create legacy with our thoughts and dreams.

Nadie tiene derecho a derribar de un capirotazo lo que las generaciones previas erigieron con infinito esfuerzo: porque en el esfuerzo de esas generaciones hay mucho amor insomne, muchos sacrificios ímprobos, muchas lágrimas vertidas, muchos júbilos compartidos

When a child is born, so are grandmothers.

How strange to realize that she'd come on the Herald of Hope chapel car thinking she could bring hope to the people of Finch. Her heart swelled with the knowledge she now embraced. Only God could truly bring the hope these people needed - the hope she needed. He was the hope that anchored their souls. And He was the anchor that would hold the two of them, their children, and their children's children fast to Him.

I know that some lesbians are getting pregnant by going to sperm banks. I couldn't do that. I'm exactly like my grandmother, "What? Everything's frozen! Nothing's fresh?"

Die Nihilisten glaubten immerhin, dass es etwas gebe, an das sie nicht glauben konnten. [...] Wir [...] sind die Urenkel der Nihilisten.

Poverty has long arms that reach through generations of people, leaving telltale bruise marks on its victims even after they are blessed enough to get out.

My grandmother had six kids - one died as an infant - and she was dirt-poor, and all her kids got an education. And my mom grew up poor. And they both worked so hard and cultivated so much of their own happiness. I wanted to have that like an amulet. Not like armor, but like a magic feather. Like Dumbo's magic feather.

I think music influences fashion and has done so for generations.

Genetics is about how information is stored and transmitted between generations.

I go to my grandchildren. They keep their grandpa informed on what's going on.

We inherit the family we're born into and create the family we need.

I actually have grandkids. I'm at that age. And with all the things that go on in our country, I sometimes wonder what sort of world they're going to inherit?

I haven't inherited the earth from my parents, I am borrowing it from my children.

An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.

Author: A fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenting generations to come.

Inspiring children through play and creativity is crucial to early development, and no company has done more in that space over many generations than Mattel.

We need to instill the values that are important for future generations, and above all we have to show boys how to respect women.

If you apologize to me, I look at it as an insult because my parents, my grandparents, my great-grandparents, like every other culture out there, did exactly what they needed to do. They worked hard, and they became part of the American way, and they earned the respect of Americans across the board. We need to do the same.

There have never been any fights in the Kapoor family. We are close to even our cousins - like the way Rishi's children and mine interact with Shashi and Shammi's children.

Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children's party taken over by the elders.

Uncles and aunts, and cousins, are all very well, and fathers and mothers are not to be despised; but a grandmother, at holiday time, is worth them all.

Writers create Houses of the Imagination, from whose doors the generations greet each other.