Family Generations Sayings

#1. Imagine living in abject poverty and not knowing anything other than that for generations. Or alternatively, imagine being born into a really wealthy family, but there was no real love. Everyone's living these extraordinary, interesting lives whether they know it or not.

Annie Lennox

#2. Our family suffers from a hereditary condition called, generally, mental illness. Specifically, multiple family members in successive generations have suffered from either bipolar disorder or schizophrenia.

Victor LaValle

#3. My family for several generations have been members of the Unitarian Church.

Leverett Saltonstall

#4. Homosexuality is Satan's diabolical attack upon the family that will not only have a corrupting influence upon our next generation, but it will also bring down the wrath of God upon America.

Jerry Falwell

#5. I'm the most successful person in my generation of family members, and that sucks.

Ice Cube

#6. As my family story shows, Latinos have been a blessing for USA for many generations. The future of America depends in part on the success of the Latino community, and this opportunity is just one more signifier of that.

Julian Castro

#7. If you can sit all generations of a family down and entertain them and, at the same time, leave them talking about existential notions, then that's fantastic.

Tom Goodman-Hill

#8. The Sacred Willow: Four Generations in the Life of a Vietnamese Family. She

Malcolm Gladwell

#9. More to the point, I am fifty-eight. I need grandchildren before my decline. It's not right for two generations of the family to be drooling at the same time.

Tessa Dare

#10. We the caregivers, have the power to do things proactively to benefit our present and future generations.

Betsy L. Stone

#11. One thing that was passed on from generation to generation in my family, over seven generations in 200 years, was never give up. That's the way we live.

Nik Wallenda

#12. Events had been set in motion whose echo would be heard a thousand and more generations from now.

J. Valor

#13. I continue to do my job as a brain surgeon, as a researcher, and I try to make it better and better every day, not only for my patients but for their families, for my family and for the future generations of our country.

Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa

#14. Every generation is born into, for the most part, a heterosexual family.

Andrew Sullivan

#15. My family have been around Northumberland for five generations.

Kevin Whately

#16. What I look for in a project or partner is integrity and character; I love the concept of family entertainment and crosses over the generations, where you can sit kids with their grandparents and everyone has a good time. Those are the qualities that I want to bring to viewers.

Jodi Benson

#17. The church isn't a circle of friends, but the family of God. The covenant of grace connects generations, rooting them in that worshiping community with the "cloud of witnesses" in heaven as well as here and now (Heb 12:1).

Michael S. Horton

#18. We have three generations at home, including my father-in-law. I keep a very low profile, and a lot of things I do are very much with the family in mind. I have actually made films with the family around me.

Mira Nair

#19. My dad's side of the family ... they're a real bizarre bunch, going back to the original colonies. That side's got a real tough strain of alcoholism. It goes back generations and generations, so that you can't remember when there was a sober grandfather.

Sam Shepard

#20. I knew I could never match my father as a violinist, and there were already four generations of outstanding cellists in the family.

Leonard Slatkin

#21. And that, she realized, fully encompassed the Carstairs family's last and most important rule of life: no matter what, never forget that everything generations of their family had accomplished could vanish in an instant.

Shelley Gray

#22. When I was young, I colored in the line drawings in vintage editions of the Oz books that had been handed down through generations in my family. This was a bad thing to do.

Andrew Rosenthal

#23. Given that we are all descended from Adam and Eve, genetic defects as a result of intra-family marriage would not begin to crop up until after the first few dozen generations.

Hugh Ross

#24. Raffe: "The unruliness of the women in your family must go back for generations. You're like a plague upon the land."
Penryn: "So long as we're also a plague upon angels, I'm sure everyone else will forgive us."
Raffe: "Oh, you're definitely a plague upon at least one angel.

Susan Ee

#25. Later that summer, as rain fell, such a moment shimmered and paused on the brink, and then began the ancient dance of numbers: two, four, eight, sixteen, thirty-two, and a new life took root and began to grow. And thus the generations past were joined to the unknowable future.

Mary Doria Russell

#26. I am the first male member of my family for about three generations who can have reasonable confidence in expecting that I will leave this earth with more or less the same number of fingers, hands, legs, toes and eyes as I had when I was born.

Neil Kinnock

#27. This story began with a single, starving family, hunted and alone on the plains of Mongolia - and ends with Kublai Khan ruling an empire larger than that of Alexander the Great or Julius Caesar. Over just three generations, that is simply the greatest rags-to-riches tale in human history.

Conn Iggulden

#28. You're probably right. The unruliness of the women in your family must go back for generations. You're like a plague upon the land." "So long as we're also a plague upon angels, I'm sure everyone else will forgive us." "Oh, you're definitely a plague upon at least one angel. Is

Susan Ee

#29. The history of any private family, however humble, could it be fully related for five or six generations, would illustrate the state and progress of society better than the most elaborate dissertation.

Robert Southey

#30. Go to the adolescent who are smothered in family
Oh how hideous it is
To see three generations of one house gathered together!
It is like an old tree with shoots,
And with some branches rotted and falling.

Ezra Pound

#31. The family trees of all of us, of whatever origin or trait, must meet and merge into one genetic tree of all humanity by the time they have spread into our ancestries for about 50 generations.

Guy Murchie

#32. This way of leaving your family for work had condemned them over several generations to have their hearts always in other places, their minds thinking about people elsewhere; they could never be in a single existence at one time. How wonderful it was going to be to have things otherwise.

Kiran Desai

#33. Huan was born and raised in the House of Aladon, and his family for eleven generations before him, yet even he could be a Listener.

Robert Jordan

#34. I think all kinds of meanings in life transcend your self. They're linked to other generations of people around us, to our children and our family. We're passing on something of ourselves to others. I feel that's what makes our life full of meaning.

Irvin D. Yalom

#35. Psychologists suggest that we must reach back at least three generations to look for clues whenever we begin untangling the emotional legacy of any one family's history.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#36. Then Mattie journeyed away from her home toward freedom and her family, leaving behind the bones of generations of her ancestors and their captors

Laila Ibrahim

#37. My family is American, and has been for generations, in all its branches, direct and collateral

Ulysses S. Grant

#38. On closer examination, we are simply a banal tragedy spread over two generations.

Peter Hoeg

#39. My family's lineage is five generations of artists who never made it.

Shia Labeouf

#40. I kind of like that romantic image of being in a rocker with my family gathered around, all these generations in one room, listening intently to my stories.

Charlie Sheen

#41. My constituents in Kansas know the death tax is a duplicative tax on small businesses and family farms that, in many cases, families have spent generations building.

Todd Tiahrt

#42. A tiny apartment might hold three generations of an immigrant family.

Rick Smolan

#43. The family has always been the cornerstone of American society. Our families nurture, preserve, and pass on to each succeeding generation the values we share and cherish, values that are the foundation of our freedoms.

Ronald Reagan

#44. Messages about money are passed down from generation to generation, worn and chipped like the family dishes.

Suze Orman

#45. Our ancestors derived less from life than we do, but they also expected much less and were less intent on controlling the future. We are of the arrogant generations who believe a lasting happiness was promised to us at birth. Promised? By whom?

Amin Maalouf

#46. It's very strange that most people don't care if their knowledge of their family history only goes back three generations.

Douglas Coupland

#47. Their virtues lived in their children. The family changed its persons but not its manners, and they continued a blessing to the world from generation to generation.

Sarah Fielding

#48. I think what travelling has done for me and for many generations of my family - my grandmother was a great example - it's really highlighted for me how similar we all are and how many values we all share as people on this planet.

Leila Janah

#49. I was the only male of the Arnaz family in my generation.

Desi Arnaz

#50. I'm not the comic of the generation, I'm not even the funniest guy in my family.

Dave Attell

#51. Although I was raised in Canada and the U.K., my roots are in Egypt through my father, in a family line that stretches back generations and runs along the Nile, from the concrete of Cairo to the coast of Alexandria.

Shereen El Feki

#52. Why are the architects of the family-values agenda so eager to punish into the next generation? What is being served by seeking, quite literally, a tooth for a tooth?

Ayelet Waldman

#53. I pray at night, and I believe God has given me the gift to be able to perform in front of millions and millions of fans around the world. My faith in God has given me the opportunity to provide for my family and hopefully for generations to come.

Oscar Gutierrez

#54. Music has been in our family for generations.

Henry Garza

#55. I miss the days of burning your kind at the stake. For generations we have settled for financial ruin and ostracization of your whorish ancestors - but know this, I will personally gut you and put your head on a pike in my parlor.

Heather McVea

#56. I think several generations of my family had novels in the drawer. You know the montage in 'The Royal Tenenbaums' where each character has produced some sort of minor work? It was like having a magician in the household.

Garth Risk Hallberg

#57. Hunting is a family thing for me, and it's a Texas thing. We have a lot of land in Texas that's been in our family for 12 generations.

Eva Longoria

#58. Affection is the most important thing. And the quality of affection - with your friends, your lovers, your family. But particularly for your own generation.

Allen Ginsberg

#59. Celibacy is the Tesla family secret, passed down through the
generations."
"Celibacy, passed down through the generations?"Victor asked dryly.
I flushed. "Its efficacy is not disproved by its imperfect application,"
I muttered.

Vinnie Tesla

#60. Let's bring back grandmothers! A real family consists of three generations. It's time Americans stopped worrying about interference and being a burden on the children and regrouped under one roof.

Florence King

#61. The death tax punishes the American dream - making it virtually impossible for the average American family to build wealth across generations.

Kit Bond

#62. In Europe the parents are included as with children. All three generations are together. I'm thinking of Italy. You go out on a Sunday afternoon and the whole family is there.

Dana Delany

#63. I come from a family of Mississippi sharecroppers just a few generations away from slavery, and I experienced a lot of racism growing up - you can't avoid that if you're a person of color in this country.

Carrie Mae Weems

#64. Like a precious family heirloom, freedom is not just ours to enjoy, but to treasure, protect, and pass on to future generations.

Os Guinness

#65. Given good yarn, good workmanship, and good care, a knitted shawl and outlive its knitter, providing warmth and pleasure to several generations of family and friends.

Martha Waterman

#66. Demond's family history wasn't so different from my own, did that mean we were living the same story over and over again, down through the generations? That the young and Black had always been dying, until all that was left were children and the few old, as in war?

Jesmyn Ward

#67. Every individual is a potential gold buyer, although he may not need the gold. It may be added to the store of personal wealth, and passed from generation to generation as an object of family wealth. There is no other economic good as marketable as gold.

Hans F. Sennholz

#68. We've got nine generations of farmers in my family, in Warwickshire. And I do feel connected to being a farmer's son. There was a time when I didn't, when I rebelled against it, but there's certainly that sort of work ethic within me.

Joseph Mawle

#69. The black family survived centuries of slavery and generations of Jim Crow, but it has disintegrated in the wake of the liberals' expansion of the welfare state.

Thomas Sowell

#70. Idea of the generations continuing is really important. And that's interesting to me. I write about families; I'm interested in families. Even though I think a family can be just two people or two people and a dog, I really wanted children for that reason.

Jennifer Gilmore

#71. But somehow, every time there's a natural disaster, news crews manage to track down one of these outdoorsy yahoos to interview about how the "twister came a-screamin' down the holler" and destroyed the snake farm his family had been running for generations.

Molly Harper

#72. My whole family is spiritual. My grandmother, grand aunt, cousins, they're all preachers and pastors. Spirituality is a part of my family, from generations ago.

Ziggy Marley

#73. A food truce, the picnic suspension of oedipal feeling that permits the generations to love each other at family reunions.

Karen Russell

#74. Even the simplest wicker basket can become priceless when it is loved and cared for through the generations of a family.

Sister Parish

#75. All it takes is one person in any generation to heal a family's limiting beliefs.

Gregg Braden

#76. All of us have parents. Generations pass. We are not unique. Now it is our family's turn.

Ralph Webster

#77. My parents were European immigrants. They came to the States with $1,500, two suitcases, and me, and they managed to build a business, a family, and a future for their family. They didn't have any of the resources of people who have lived here for two or three generations.

Stana Katic

#78. In Europe, war is a disease which has been in the family for generations: no one is surprised when it makes another leap. Even the patient only attends to it with part of his mind.

Storm Jameson

#79. We too had branched off from the people who had come before us, a family that made the family that made us, and we were shining in the darkness and casting our light all around us.

David Gianadda

#80. If you want to do your best for future generations of humanity, for your friends and family, you must begin by taking good care of yourself.

Tarthang Tulku

#81. Handsome in the manner of an Aryan prince, possessor of a trust fund, born to fulfill a preordained place in his family and the world; a man with all the confidence twelve generations of well-documented lineage can give.

Robert Galbraith

#82. When three generations are present in a family, one of them is bound to be revolutionary.

Elise M. Boulding

#83. I am passionate about my family, adventure, good wine, nature and the outdoors, sharks, the ocean, and working hard to preserve it all for future generations.

Mehgan Heaney-Grier

#84. The choices that you make with your family today will determine the quality of life in your family tree for generations to come.

Steve Farrar

#85. Today the world lost a visionary leader, the technology industry lost an iconic legend and I lost a friend and fellow founder. The legacy of Steve Jobs will be remembered for generations to come. My thoughts and prayers go out to his family and to the Apple team.

Michael Dell

#86. My grandfather was from outside of Moscow, and my grandmother, although some of her family were French, was from Odessa. They met as immigrants in New York in the early '20s. My mother's family came over from Ireland generations ago.

Alexis Denisof

#87. Family dynamics are true over time, across generations and different cultures.

Alice McDermott

#88. I'm a fighting man, a fighting man with generations of fighting men before me in my family. That's all we do: we fight.

Tyson Fury

#89. No one in my family has been observant for generations, but we all identify with being Jewish.

Adam Mansbach

#90. Who we are takes generations to create and doesn't end with death.

Stanley Siegel

#91. My family came over from Spain about nine generations ago. I was born in San Diego, but by the time I was four days old, I was on a flight back to Spain because that's where my family was living at the time.

Bitsie Tulloch

#92. I grew up in Alsace - in Strasbourg, by the canal; the family business was coal handling. It was still in the days when three generations would live under the same roof. There were 15 people for lunch, 20 for dinner.

Jean-Georges Vongerichten

#93. My grandfather used to wear a black hat and coat. You are my children. You are my jewels. We old ones invest our future in you.

Diane Samuels

#94. Unusual degree. This family became divided eight generations

Charles Darwin

#95. Her beauty was the talk of the valley.It skipped two generations of women in our family, but it sure didn't bypass you, Laila.

Khaled Hosseini

#96. In one generation, my family went from extermination simply because of how they pray to God to this ridiculously privileged life I live today. So how can I not love America?

Jerry Springer

#97. If $85 million is not enough to take care of my family and other generations of my family, then you're stupid.

Jered Weaver

#98. We are all immigrants, a glorious confection of races and beliefs, united by the rock that we live on. As the years wash over us and new generations march into the future, family histories are subsumed into the greater narrative. We become, simply, Americans.

Alex George

#99. Sometimes film is just the family business. Some families are generations of carpenters or farmers, or they make clothes, or they're all lawyers. I'm in the family business.

Danny Huston

#100. Over 120 Aboriginal communities run their own health services - some have been doing so for 30 years. They struggle with difficult medical problems. They also try to deal with counselling, stolen generations issues, family relationships, violence, suicide prevention.

Malcolm Fraser