Generations Proverbs

Sayings about Generations

Wealth earned in one generation seldom lasts through the third generation. ~ English Proverbs

From clogs to clogs is only three generations. ~ Traditional Proverb

Life is for one generation; a good name is forever. ~ Japanese Proverbs

One generation plants the trees; another gets the shade. ~ Chinese Proverb

The older generation thought nothing of getting up at 5 o'clock in the morning — and the younger generation doesn't think so much of it either. ~ Saying

There is nothing wrong with today's teenager that twenty years won't cure. ~ Saying

When two paupers get married it is the beginning of a generation of beggars. ~ Mexican Proverbs

One generation builds the street on which the next will walk. ~ Chinese Proverbs

A father lives after death in his son. ~ Sanskrit Proverb

Quotations About Generations

It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous. ~ Charles Dudley Warner

They say genes skip generations. Maybe that's why grandparents find their grandchildren so likeable. ~ Joan McIntosh

Every old man complains of the growing depravity of the world, of the petulance and insolence of the rising generation. ~ Samuel Johnson

It is one of nature's ways that we often feel closer to distant generations than to the generation immediately preceding us. ~ Igor Stravinsky

We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority, to bind themselves, but none to bind the succeeding generation, more than the inhabitants of another country. ~ Thomas Jefferson

Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation. ~ Adlai E. Stevenson

Three generations from shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves. ~ Andrew Carnegie

Generation Gap: A chasm, amorphously situated in time and space, that separates those who have grown up absurd from those who will, with luck, grow up absurd. ~ Bernard Rosenberg

Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn't have anything to do with it. ~ Haim Ginott

The generations of men run on in the tide of time, but leave their destined lineaments permanent for ever and ever. ~ William Blake

For each generation must find the wisdom of the ages in the form of its own wisdom. ~ Erik H. Erikson

There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age — I missed it coming and going. ~ J.B. Priestly

Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers. ~ Lewis Mumford

What one generation sees as a luxury, the next sees as a necessity. ~ Anthony Crosland
Our tastes greatly alter. The lad does not care for the child's rattle, and the old man does not care for the young man's whore. ~ Samuel Johnson

Some men so dislike the dust kicked up by the generation they belong to, that, being unable to pass, they lag behind it. ~ Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare

That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another. ~ Adlai Stevenson

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