Quotes about Generations
The fruits of your labors may be reaped two generations from now. Trust, even when you don't see the results.
— Henri Nouwen
Our death is not an end if we can live on in our children and the younger generation. For they are us; our bodies are only wilted leaves on the tree of life.
— Albert Einstein
Humility is the mother of all virtues, courage the father, integrity the child and wisdom the grandchild.
— Stephen Covey
Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves.
— DH Lawrence
A library implies an act of faith which generations, still in darkness hid, sign in their night in witness of the dawn. À qui la faute? (1872)
— Victor Hugo
Sometimes our parents are full of love and sometimes they are full of anger. This love and anger comes not only from them, but from all previous generations. When we can see this, we no longer blame our parents for our suffering.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
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.
— Brother Andrew
Human manners are wildly inconsistent; plenty of people have said so. But this one takes the cake: the manner in which we're allowed to steal from future generations, while commanding them not to do that to us, and rolling our eyes at anyone who is tediously PC enough to point that out. The conspicious consumption of limited resources has yet to be accepted widely as a spirtual error, or even bad manners.
— Barbara Kingsolver
Plus," Tig said, "it reminds me to be patient. Seeing all these people that have passed on. I get frustrated sometimes, waiting." "For people to die?" "Yeah. To be honest. The guys in charge of everything right now are so old. They really are, Mom. Older than you. They figured out the meaning of life in, I guess, the nineteen fifties and sixties. When it looked like there would always be plenty of everything.
— Barbara Kingsolver
I shall turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers.
— Barbara Kingsolver
Life is no brief candle to me. It's a sort of splendid torch which I've got to hold up for the moment and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.
— Stephen Covey
Grandparents who show a great interest in their grandchildren are among the most precious people on this earth. What
— Stephen Covey