Quotes About Generational cycles

The next Fourth Turning—America's next rendezvous with destiny—will begin in roughly ten years and end in roughly thirty.

The Third Turning has been the Culture Wars, an era that began with Reagan's mid-1980s Morning in America and is due to expire around the middle of the Oh-Oh decade, eight or ten years from now. Amid the glitz of the early Reagan years, no one predicted that the nation was entering an era of national drift and institutional decay. But that's where we are.

If your parents never had children, chances are you won't either.

I stood in the doorway of one room, lost in a meditation of the house's recurring habits. People had made love here, sweated through pregnancy, gave birth, looked after children, became ill, died, the fire always burning in the kitchen. In this room, the next generation had done the same, the fire still burning. And the next generation, for thousand years.

Pasa que los cronopios no quieren tener hijos, porque lo primero que hace un cronopio recién nacido es insultar groseramente a su padre, en quien oscuramente ve la acumulación de desdichas que un día serán las suyas.

The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.

Civilization is an illusion, because history will always repeat itself in every generation.

The sins of the parents are the destinies of their children. Unless the children wake up and do something about it.