Quotes about Generations
The hands reaching in among the leaves and spines were once my mother's. I've passed them on. Decades ahead, you'll study your own temporary hands, and you'll remember. Don't cry, this is what happens.
— Margaret Atwood
Books and characters in books, pictures and elements in pictures—they all have families and ancestors, just like people.
— Margaret Atwood
Break the link in time between one generation and the next, and it's game over forever.
— Margaret Atwood
Little children, such as Anne, must never, ever correct their elders, no matter how many blunders they make or how often they let their imaginations run away with them.
— Anne Frank
Kids are hard -they drive you crazy and break your heart- whereas grandchildren make you feel great about life, and yourself, and your ability to love someone unconditionally, finally, after all these years.
— Anne Lamott
Nothing worth doing can be accomplished in a single lifetime.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
A teacher's major contribution may pop out anonymuosly in the life of some ex-student's grandchild.
— Wendell Berry
We have four grown children and five grandchildren... so far! So, as you can imagine, family is extremely important to us.
— Deborah Raney
Miserliness is a capital quality to run in families; it's the safe side for madness to dip on.
— George Eliot
ancient thought forms of oppression and domination have reappeared among us. And we, like generations before us, are called upon to respond.
— Marianne Williamson
Each prayer is like a seed that gets planted in the ground. It disappears for a season, but it eventually bears fruit that blesses future generations. In fact, our prayers bear fruit forever.
— Mark Batterson
In your love you see only your two selves in the world, but in marriage you are a link in the chain of the generations
— Mark Driscoll