Quotes about Generations
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
In our families we learn to love and to recognise the dignity of all, especially of the elderly
— Pope Francis
Churches all over the country have decided they love their traditions more than their children.
— Erwin McManus
Sin destroys our capacity to live. It weakens our vitality. ... It incapacitates us from living out a healthy love and a vigorous peace. We need deliverance from it. God provides deliverance from it, decade after decade, generation after generation, 'according to the will of our God and Father.
— Eugene Peterson
The gods visit the sins of the fathers upon the children.
— Euripides
God teaches us to forgive, and He gives us the grace to do so. He enables us to rise above the harshest of circumstances and to begin again. He rewrites generations of brokenness to give us an incredible hope and future with Jesus.
— Beth Redman
When you touch the life of a man of this generation, that influence is felt through generations yet to come.
— Gordon Hinckley
The diligent farmer plants trees, of which he himself will never see the fruit.
— Cicero