Generational Relationships Quotes

I have a role now that I think becomes me. I am a grandmother.

When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.

When I began writing these pages I believed their subject to be children, the ones we have and the ones we wish we had, the ways in which we depend on our children to depend on us, the ways in which we encourage them to remain children, the ways in which they remain more unknown to us than they do to their more casual acquaintances; the ways in which we remain equally opaque to them.

There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.

People in politics always say they're spending time with their family, but in my case, it's a big family. We got 23 grandkids, so I get to spend a lotta time with them, and it's extraordinarily enjoyable.

Grandparents have the freedom to see their grandchildren uncritically.

Everybody's social life in Jordan revolves around family.

Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.

Our society loves raw character; we love raw women. We don't love our mother because she is hot and sexy: we love our mother because she is our mother. We love our granny because she is our granny. We value her. We don't remember anyone's face from our childhood; we love our granny's face.

The fact that my grown kids like to hang out with me, I mean, it just - I don't think it really can get any better than that, I don't think.

I love to hang out with my friends and go to the movies. My mom and I are involved in the Mother/Daughter Organization - national charity work. Whenever I get free time, we volunteer. It's an organization so mothers and daughters can spend time together while volunteering.

I've been wanting for a long time to create a show which allowed me to show the British Asian community in a truly three-dimensional way, exploring the relationships between generations and what it means to be British and Asian as values become fluid.

I get to have Sunday lunch at my mum's, pick my nephew up from school now and then: it's a very normal life.

Hindered characters / seldom have mothers / in Irish stories, but they all have grandmothers.

I've always been close to my family. I've got a lot of nieces and nephews, but I'm a good uncle.

So actually, there could be parents-of-the-parents-of-the-parents-of-the parents?

I try to have lunch or dinner with my parents on the weekends.

Rather than accepting the drifting separation of the generations, we might begin to define a more complex and interesting set of life stages and parenting passages, each emphasizing the connections to the generations ahead and behind. As I grow older, for example, I might first see my role as a parent in need of older, mentoring parents, and then become a mentoring parent myself. When I become a grandparent, I might expect to seek out older mentoring grandparents, and then later become a mentoring grandparent.