Top 23 Family Generational Quotes

#1. Larry: She doesn't want to be happy.
Dan: Everybody wants to be happy.
Larry: Depressives don't. They want to be unhappy to confirm they're depressed. If they were happy they couldn't be depressed anymore. They'd have to go out into the world and live. Which can be depressing.

Patrick Marber

#2. Specific policy decisions would be absolutely necessary to promote the UK. It's not necessarily borrowing more or changing our current account status.

Andrea Leadsom

#3. Nothing in our daily life offers more of the comfort of continuity, the generational connection of belonging to a vast and complicated American family, the powerful sense of home, the freedom from time's constraints, and the great gift of accumulated memory than does our National Pastime.

Ken Burns

#4. A portion of guilt is standard issue for southern boys; our whole lives are convoluted, egregious apologies to our mothers because our fathers have made us such flawed husbands.

Pat Conroy

#5. What was unspeakable found voice and its bleating froze the air for a moment hacked from the fabric of time as the secret of all stabbed at his ears.

Douglas Clegg

#6. It seems almost incredible, how far we can drive in a country so small, without ever really reaching anywhere.

Sara Baume

#7. Only difference between a dream and a nightmare is how big your balls are, bitch. (The Fox)

Mark Millar

#8. Holden thought he had probably been a very good scientist. Thrilled by small victories, undeterred by setbacks.

James S.A. Corey

#9. Of course, our roles within the family are radically different. Generational stereotypes of moms and dads have disintegrated A-bomb style. We are making it up as we go along, pioneering a new era of equality.

Gudjon Bergmann

#10. Sometimes as a parent, you have to give your child that doesn't do his or her chores some tough love and withhold the allowance.

Ami Bera

#11. For me, there's nothing better than getting immersed in a sprawling, epic, multi-generational family saga, and 'One Hundred Years of Solitude' by Gabriel Garcia Marquez is the most sprawling, epic, and multi-generational of them all.

Jandy Nelson

#12. One of the things I want to do with 'Desi Rascals' is go a bit deeper into the characters and their family lives and have a bit more heart and a bit more inter-generational story-telling, so it's not all about young people.

Gurinder Chadha

#13. A politician's Job they say is very high, for he has choose who has to go out and die.

Black Sabbath

#14. A personal journey is part of the generational relay. Live your legacy then pass it on.

Jo Ann V. Glim

#15. Until they come to see us from their planet, I wait patiently. I hear them saying: Don't call us, we'll call you.

Marlene Dietrich

#16. Bitterness about your parents' brokenness will kill you. Be the grace-filled end of generational sin in your family.

John Piper

#17. Retirement without literary amusements is death itself, and a living tomb.

Seneca The Younger

#18. In the early 2000s, people expected that anonymity on the Internet would be positive for the development of democracy in South Korea. In a Confucian culture like South Korea's, hierarchy can block the free exchange of opinions in face-to-face situations. The web offered a way around that.

Kim Young-ha

#19. Without freedom, the family and faith cannot survive. Without faith, we will see freedom and family languish. And without family, man will give up on a generational commitment to faith and freedom.

Kevin Swanson

#20. I hate race discrimination most intensely and in all its manifestations. I have fought it all during my life; I fight it now, and will do so until the end of my days.

Nelson Mandela

#21. I was happier when I was doing a mechanic's job.

Henry Ford

#22. Yes, your family history has some sad chapters. But your history doesn't have to be your future. The generational garbage can stop here and now.

Max Lucado

#23. My effort and ability to learn was always contextualized within the framework of generational family experience. Certain behaviors, gestures, habits of being were traced back. Attending

Bell Hooks

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