Quotes About Generations

It was a raw country, and the first generations of colonial women did things that their granddaughters would have found unthinkable.

Family faces are magic mirrors. Looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present, and future.

Family faces are magic mirrors...we see the past, present, and future.

Education can counteract the natural tendency to do the wrong thing, but the inexorable succession of generations requires that the basis for this knowledge be constantly refreshed.

Grandparents are convinced they're better parents than their own kids, whose lives they've already fucked up.

From out of the infinite realm of possibility, a never-to-be-repeated creature comes into being, looks out briefly on the universe, passes its life force along to coming generations, then rejoins the undifferentiated vastness from which it emerged.

Only a technological age could condemn unborn generations to exist in it, as if man were mere protoplasm, without emotion or aspiration.

Treasures: The most important thing you leave behind is the stuff that turns into treasures when children find it.

Whenever he sat in the swingset it got tangled up. He said it was demons in the steel that were drawn to the sweat & sorrow of the steelworkers across the generations. Plastic doesn't have those sorts of problems yet, he said.

Too many people around here, they've lost themselves inside a lifetime of Dominion theology. They may not know the term, but they've got the principles down cold. Go back some generations, our ancestors had it right. They saw themselves as stewards of the earth. Now it's all about how God gave them dominion over everything, so they've got every right to do whatever they want with it.

20When a son learns wisdom, a father's heart is glad.

This is how Yuli, son of Alehaw, came to a place called Oldorando, where his descendants flourished in the better days that were to come.

My intent was to write a story that would become a true legend, so it was important to me to present Holly Claus's story as a legend, a fantasy that would become a part of the culture… a tradition…a classic. I want Holly's story to endure for generations." — Brittney Ryan

I thought that I would never reach for it again without remembering the old granny in front of me now, standing almost on tiptoe, squinting as she strained to see the words in the Bible her son held aloft.

This is not about you. Nobody gives a shit whether you like pot or hate it. This is a race issue. It's a civil rights issue. It's about millions of people losing their liberty and their lives because of ridiculous drug laws that do not work. There are generations of black men in prison because they were caught with a substance that's less harmful than alcohol. You're a white guy, so you don't have to worry about it. Others do.

We have talked a lot about how the actions of caregivers influence the child, but it's important to remember that those caregivers were also children influenced by their caregivers. The effects of trauma stretch far and wide across generations and across communities, and it's important to always come back to our central question with compassion: What happened to you?

Colonization, slavery, the U.S. reservation system, Canada's Residential Schools, Australia's Stolen Generation—these were so destructive across so many generations because they intentionally destroyed the family and cultural bonds that keep a people connected.

Your own experiences and the echoes of your ancestors' experiences influence the way you think, feel, and behave.

Is fear transmissible from generation to generation? Can the fearfulness of a parent be transmitted to the child? -the answer is an empathic yes.

Children, especially, are very contagious to the emotions of the people around them. Think of you and your grandmother in the story you just shared. You felt fear. Her fear was passed to you—you "caught" her fear and carried it into your generation.

to someone in the next generation. There is transgenerational transmission—something is passed on to the next generation.

My grandmother Hattie Mae's home was a place where children were seen and not heard.

Your own experiences and the echoes of your ancestors' experiences influence the way you think, feel, and behave. They are major determinants of your health. And being aware of this can help us remember that everything we do right now is going to echo into the future. Our actions matter; we are impacting the next generations. So are we being as mindful as we could?

We honor our parents by carrying their best forward and laying the rest down.