Generations Quotes

“People said that everyone was born alone and everyone would die alone, but they were wrong. When someone was born, they brought so many people with them, generations of people zipped into the marrow of their tiny bones.”
― Emma Straub, All Adults Here

“Courage and strength moves like the steadfast waves of the ocean. Ebbs and flows, highs and lows, loud and soft, firm and vulnerable, passing encouragement from one generation to the next.”
― Lynda Nguyen, Freedom and Feminism: Breaking The Rules. Telling The Truth To Freedom.

“Here was my choice: I could continue down the well-trod path upon which I'd been running for so very long and pass along the inheritance like a baton, as blithely as I did my light hair and fair skin. My daughter could do her best to outrun it...
Or I could slow down, catch my breath, and look mindfully for a new path. There had to be another way and I owed it to my daughter to find it.”
― Adrienne Brodeur, Wild Game: My Mother, Her Lover, and Me

“The importance of fatherhood in our society is gravely underrated; the damage of fatherless generations is upon us.”
― ALLENE VANOIRSCHOT, Daddy's Little Girl

“There is something in the room with us. It's familiar. It's a feeling I've known my whole life but never talked about. It's an invisible man or monster under the bed.
History. That's what it is. History is in the room with us. You absorb it even if it's not happening right in front of you. You absorb the feeling of it. It's there even though it's not there. It's in your skin.”
― A.S. King, Still Life with Tornado

“Poetry in any language old or new is the voice us all. A reflection of humanity. Even perhaps a note, a prayer, a mantra or a sign to future generations telling them tomorrow holds what today has lost. Through these voices find yourself”
― R.M. Engelhardt, The Bones of Our Existence, A Journal 2046

“...he doubts me because the old do not remember the necessities of youth. They see only the years on our horizon to which they think we are entitled. But we are entitled only to the moment, and owe nothing to the future except that we follow our convictions.”
― Pierce Brown, Dark Age

“We’re the beneficiaries of prayers we know nothing about. God was working long before we arrived on the scene and He’s using us to set up the next generation.

We tend to think right here, right now.

God is thinking nations and generations.

We have no idea how our lives are going to alter the course of history downstream, but there is a divine domino effect for every decision we make. Don’t underestimate the potential impact of obeying God’s prompts. Those are the whispers that will echo for all eternity!”
― Mark Batterson, Whisper: How to Hear the Voice of God

“I have a FIRM belief that if we don’t share our stories, our experience, our knowledge, our skills, our gifts, our talents that those around us (now) and future generations will repeat our same mistakes.”
― Richie Norton

“She grew up in the days when lamps ran on whale blubber, guitars were strung with catgut, and pig brains were a delicacy. Imposing my pampered millennial morality on the situation would be an insult to her entire generation.”
― George Watsky

“Protesting is about making history, creating art and protecting future generations.”
― Steven Magee

“The first and foremost easiest slip-up to get to a millennial’s bad side is power-tripping them. This is a generation that has seen a lot of B.S. in their lives, and nothing you do to hide yours will escape their sensitive lie detectors.”
― Cate East, Generational Astrology: How Astrology Can Crack the Millennial Code

“The differences of the generations may be unsettling or overwhelming now, but rest assured that history merely repeats itself, and that everything is in order.
The millennial hatred phenomenon is merely a representation of a common pattern in human life of favoring, disliking, detesting, accepting, and then finally surrendering to a new generation. It’s happened over history and will happen again.”
― Cate East, Generational Astrology: How Astrology Can Crack the Millennial Code

“A mistake, committed for a few generations, becomes a tradition.”
― Nitya Prakash

“Development means our tomorrow be better than today, next months & years better than this, and so on; which essentially means our next generation be better than ours! But how, think!! And if you don’t, you go against development!!”
― Sandeep Sahajpal, The Twelfth Preamble: To all the authors to be!

“Future generations are going to look back on this society and correctly assume that insanity was the norm.”
― Steven Magee

“Se tieto mikä kerran on kerätty, jää pesän yhteiseksi onneksi kuin hunaja kennoihin. Eikö se riitä ihmiselle?”
― Leena Krohn, Unelmakuolema

“Ici mon passé écrit, pour toi, m’avenir qui vit”…Here, my past written, for you, my future who lives.”
― Alyssa Cole, A Hope Divided

“Amidst the blue ridge mountains, there are remarkable expressions of life. Tapestries woven by generations that are always on trial by those who amputate hope from what once was native land. Digesting each day, the unpleasant taste of yesterday's homemade buttermilk.”
― Anthony Harkins, Appalachian Reckoning: A Region Responds to Hillbilly Elegy

“Whenever he sat in the swingset it got tangled up. He said it was demons in the steel that were drawn to the sweat & sorrow of the steelworkers across the generations. Plastic doesn't have those sorts of problems yet, he said.”
― Brian Andreas, Still Mostly True: Collected Stories & Drawings

“We lived in a valley, in foothills of ancient mountains. The trees waited for each generation to be born, to keep them company as they watched over us from high above.”
― Anthony Harkins, Hillbilly: A Cultural History of an American Icon

“i tried running away from my destiny, but it kept hunting me, until i realize that, generations depends on what i carry in me.”
― Nkahloleng Eric Mohlala

“The stones had come from their orchard, unearthed when the first generation of Lunds began planting the orchard four generations ago. The stones varied in color and shape, from light gray limestone to rusty red granite, each highlighted by the golden light. Above the inset wooden mantel hung a huge collage of watercolor paintings, comprised of six-inch squares, each showcasing a different variety of apple grown in the orchard set against a distinguishing hue.”
― Amy E. Reichert, The Simplicity of Cider

“One familiar strain of music can give solace for hope and brings individuals and generations together.”
― Andrew Pacholyk, Lead Us To A Place: Your Spiritual Journey Through Life's Seasons

“The smartest person on Earth is yet to be seen, because every day God provides more wisdom to different generations.”
― Gift Gugu Mona, Daily Quotes about God: 365 Days of Heavenly Inspiration

“Genetics became my all-consuming passion. I wanted to create the perfect species. One that doesn’t just live on our planet, but one that makes it better for future generations.”
― Yasmina Haque, The Birth

“Maybe this was the moment when I knew I was part of a long line of almost erased stories. A child of denial. Of magical thinking.”
― Jacqueline Woodson, Red at the Bone

“Black and white is, as if generations relived; over and again.”
― Vikrmn, You By You

“The future is our present for the next generation. It's our duty and our total responsibility to leave a good deed from our gifts. The way we live our present will lead to a good gift or the worst of nightmares for generations to come”
― Ana Claudia Antunes, The Mysterious Murder of Marilyn Monroe

“At her ninetieth birthday party, as her three great-granddaughters wove necklaces from daisies, and her grandson tied a hanky around his own son's bleeding knee, and her daughters made sure everyone had cake and tea enough, and someone shouted, "Speech! Speech!," Dorothy Nicolson had smiled beatifically. The late-flowering roses blushed on the bushes behind her, and she clasped her hands together, idly rolling the rings that fell now loosely around her knuckles. And then she sighed. "I'm so fortunate," she said, in a slow, rickety voice. "Look at all of you, look at my children. I'm so thankful, so lucky to have..." Her old lips had trembled then, and her eyelids fluttered shut, and the others had rushed around her with kisses and cries of "Dearest, darling Mummy!" so they'd missed it when she said, "... a second chance."
But Laurel had heard it. And she'd stared harder at Ma's lovely, tired, familiar secretive face. Scouring it for answers. Answers she knew were there to be found. Because people who'd led dull and blameless lives did not give thanks for second chances.”
― Kate Morton, The Secret Keeper