Quotes About Generations

Clearly we have all the time in the world," she said crossly. "Feel free to start way back with the dinosaurs—just as long as you get to the Carnevares and Alcantaras sometime.

There is not often much policy discussion with the Bushes. There isn't much introspection. Several generations of Bush men could pass by in which the great questions of humankind will go undiscussed.

My grandparents invented joylessness. They were not fun. I've already had more fun with my grandchildren than my grandparents ever had with me.

We are a rugby family really. My dad and both granddads played rugby. Dad was good, on his way to Bath until he broke his leg. My brother Harry got an invitation to go and play for Bristol. I go and watch Sale Sharks and have been to Twickenham a few times.

The No. 1 issue in the Hispanic American community is 'How do I leave my children better off than myself?

My grandmother grew up in a 19th-century world, and my daughter has grown up in a 21st-century world, and some issues, problems, dilemmas that these women face have not changed.

My family has been rooted and intertwined with Jerusalem for generations, and I am among those who say every day, 'May You return to Your city, Jerusalem, with compassion.'

My grandfather was a lot like a white Jewish George Jefferson, and he did not enjoy my work very much.

One generation after another is drifting away from anything Jewish.

The mandate we have as Jews is for the story of the Exodus from Egypt to be retold every generation.

My dad, Jim, was 55 when I was born.

My grandfather was in the Indian Army, and my father started working to fund his own higher education and joined evening classes.

I may become like an Indian thatha but I won't stop making jokes.

Antiquitas saeculi juventus mundi. These times are the ancient times, when the world is ancient, and not those which we account ancient ordine retrogrado, by a computation backward from ourselves.

He prayed to goodness that the relationship might be reasonably remote. He remembered, anxiously, that a man may not marry his grandmother...

Social democracy, one of the dominant forces shaping Western European politics in the two generations following World War II, has been in retreat.

May her moccasins make tracks in many snows that are yet to come

In 1980 candidate Reagan asked whether we were better off than we had been 4 years earlier. In 1992 we will be asked whether we expect our children to live better than we do.

Gotham City. Clean shafts of concrete and snowy rooftops. The work of men who died generations ago. From here, it looks like an achievement. From here, you can't see the enemy.

Science can't predict what stories my children's great grandchildren will tell. The ultimate story about the experience of our journey into consciousness is a closed book to theologians and scientists alike, but it is not a book without promise. At this point we've barely cracked the introduction, and already smartass scientists and theologians pretend they know not just how the story started but how it ends—and worse—what it means or doesn't mean.

We have faith that future generations will know that here, in the middle of the twentieth century, there came a time when men of good will found a way to unite, and produce, and fight to destroy the forces of ignorance, and intolerance, and slavery, and war.

There is a mysterious cycle in human events. To some generations much is given. Of other generations much is expected.

We develop a plan and put a hierarchy in place to manage its execution, which allows us to lay a railroad track across the country or build a huge cathedral that takes generations to complete.

Each generation must, out of relative obscurity, discover its mission, fulfill it, or betray it.