Generations

Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves.

Forgiving Parents

When women feel they have learned to forgive their mothers - and men, their fathers - all it usually means is that they've decided to allow themselves the same kind of behavior

Purpose in Life

First we are children to our parents, then parents to our children, then parents to our parents, then children to our children.

Skip Generation

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

Generation of Men

As is the generation of leaves, so is that of humanity.
The wind scatters the leaves on the ground, but the live timber
Burgeons with leaves again in the season of spring returning.
So one generation of men will grow while another dies.

Distant Generations

It's one of nature's way that we often feel closer to distant generations than to the generation immediately preceding us.

Young and Old

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.

Long Enough

Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.

Old Age

Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.

Grow Old

I'm very pleased with each advancing year. It stems back to when I was forty. I was a bit upset about reaching that milestone, but an older friend consoled me. 'Don't complain about growing old - many, many people do not have that privilege.'

Age 50

I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you.

Age

I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.

Young Love

Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.