Quotes About Generations

Parents are like shuttles on a loom. They join the threads of the past with threads of the future and leave their own bright patterns as they go.

Grandparents are both our past and our future. In some ways they are what has gone before, and in others they are what we will become.

One of the greatest dignities of humankind is that each successive generation is invested in the welfare of each new generation.

For at every stage of your civilizations there are numbers of you who put aside selfishness and dedicate their lives in service to something they see as being greater than themselves. I say you may prevail, I say not that you will. For in each of your generations there are men who choose to serve the gods of darkness.

the dole replaced the former reliance on hard work and self-betterment that had led earlier generations to improve their lot.

Myths, legends and stories are the signposts previous generations have left us so we don't have to figure out our own personal journey in solitude! They have to be metaphorical, because their interpretation will be different for each individual life!

Living on through loss seems by contrast as bad or worse; it means experiencing environmental deterioration, steady decline in human well-being, and increasing constraint on future human action consciously and slowly while realizing that they are likely to continue for generations after one is gone.

Every man is his own ancestor, and every man is his own heir. He devises his own future, and he inherits his own past.

Well, that was fun," Grandpa said as he climbed to his feet. "Anyone dead?" "Does my pride count?" Draulin asked, dusting herself off. "I don't think so," Grandpa said. "I killed that years ago. Dif, I appreciate your enthusiasm, but shoving my grandson out of planes is usually my job. So next time, kindly refrain until I give the word." "Sorry, sir," Dif said, looking abashed.

Me exploding at my mother who explodes at me because the explosion of some dark star all the way back struck hard at mother's mother's mother.

I felt on my back gentle pats like fragile wings just touching me, touching me: my grandchildren's hands.

He had give this country his all, and in this land that used his bones for kindling, in this land that never once in the thirty years he lived and worked, never once said thank you, this young woman who could be his granddaughter had said the words with such honest gratitude, he was struck by how deeply these words touched him.

de opeenvolging der generaties: een reeks die zich in het duister van de tijd verliest, ouders, kinderen, kleinkinderen, tot in het oneindige bezig elkaar de last door te geven die ieder van de voorgangers heeft ontvangen, vermeerderd met eigen onlust, soms door individuele werkzaamheid in gewicht verminderd. Wij kunnen onze kinderen geen grotere dienst bewijzen dan door onze bagage op vodden en oud roest te sorteren'.

Through the generations there seems to run a chain of wounds and needs. And when we try to avoid inflicting wounds ourselves, we discover that even with our best intentions we cannot avoid encountering people who feel rejected, misunderstood, or hurt by us.

Great men, unknown to their generation, have their fame among the great who have preceded them, and all true worldly fame subsides from their high estimate beyond the stars.

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations. Books, the oldest and the best, stand naturally and rightfully on the shelves of every cottage.

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations. Books, the oldest and the best, stand naturally and rightfully on the shelves of every cottage. They have no cause of their own to plead, but while they enlighten and sustain the reader his common sense will not refuse them. Their authors are a natural and irresistible aristocracy in every society, and more than kings or emperors, exert an influence on mankind.

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations. Books, the oldest and the best, stand naturally and rightfully on the shelves of every cottage. They have

descendants would be as numerous as the stars. Because of what God would do through Abram and Sarai, all the families of the earth would be blessed. This revelation from God would

Great men die and are forgotten, Wise men speak; their words of wisdom Perish in the ears that hear them, Do not reach the generations That, as yet unborn, are waiting In the great, mysterious darkness Of the speechless days that shall be!

We need to go back to the way it was 30 years ago, when everybody had Grandma and Grandpa, and we were willing to pass moral judgments about right and wrong.

People in England were coming up to me, saying, My mother and father turned me on to your music. This happened to me 20 years ago. When I was 40 they were saying that.

My dad was a New York City cop. His father was a New York City fireman. And my mother's dad was a city taxi driver.

I'm a fourth-generation New Yorker. My family has been in New York for many, many years.