Succession of Generations Quotes

I don't know that I've gotten to the point where people know me more than my dad or that I ever will or even want to get to that point.

To death we owe our life; the passing of one generation opens a way for another.

There would be no great men if there were no little ones.

Everyone's lives are sort of a succession, almost like handing the baton of your life off from one person to the next to the next to the next. And hopefully, that goes on for a long time, and the changes are healthy and interesting and not, like, spiraling into darkness.

Ancient and oriental civilizations were more sensitive than we are to the cycles of things; to the succession of generations, both divine and human; and to change within stasis. Western man is virtually alone in wanting to make his God into a fortress and personal immortality into a bulwark against time.

There is nothing more sad or glorious than generations changing hands.

One generation passeth away and another generation cometh, but the earth abideth forever.

I know that age to age succeeds, Blowing a noise of tongues and deeds, A dust of systems and of creeds.