Quotes about Generations

My grandmother made me a scrapbook because I was once too young to remember; I am making scrapbooks for my family because one day I may be too old to remember.

Grandfathers are just antique little boys.

Grandma quilts have love in every stitch.

We try to do a little better than the previous generation and find out in the end we've made the same mistakes without intending. Instead of striving to love as God first loved us, we let past hurts and grievances rule. Ignorance is no excuse.

I have lived out my mother's hope and pray I have given wings to my daughter's dreams.

I must study Politicks and War that my sons may have liberty to study Mathematicks and Philosophy. My sons ought to study Mathematicks and Philosophy, Geography, natural History, Naval Architecture, navigation, Commerce and Agriculture, in order to give their Children a right to study Painting, Poetry, Musick, Architecture, Statuary, Tapestry, and Porcelaine.

The question that preoccupied the Fathers was not to know if God existed or not - the existence of God was a "given" for nearly all men of this period, Christians or pagans. The question which tormented entire generations was rather: *how* he existed. And such a question had direct consequences as much for the Church as for man, since both were considered as 'images of God'.

History comes and history goes, but principles endure, and ensure future generations will defend liberty not as a gift from government but as a blessing from our Creator.

Great orators who are not also great writers become very indistinct shadows to the generations following them. The spell vanishes with the voice.

To Adam Paradise was home. To the good among his descendants home is paradise.

These were honoured in their generations and were the glory of the times.

The future is in the hands of those who can give tomorrow's generations valid reasons to live and hope.