Intergenerational Connections Quotes

I've grown up with my audience; they're my age or older. Not a lot of kids are coming to see me.

There's a Dar Williams song about 'houses that are haunted, with the kids who lie awake and think about other generations past who used to use that dripping sink.' I was one of those kids.

Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.

My grandson sees me as Lois on TV every Christmas, and that scores me points.

In my private circle I am a mother, grandmother, wife, friend, daughter... the success means nothing to my small tribe.

Part of what makes Minneapolis such a vibrant place to live and work is that we have active residents of all ages.

A good friend of mine was Lucy Ball. Her mother and my mother were best friends.

I'm really big on family. I'll love catching up with my cousins. Everyone's in their twenties, so they're all on their grind at the moment, but when we get the time, I'll fly everybody to Amsterdam or Ibiza, and we can just hang for a week, chill, do nothing.

Its roots are in American Negro culture, which is part of the whole country's heritage, but the dance speaks to everyone... Otherwise, it wouldn't work.

Undoubtedly, church fish fries and picnics help build social cohesion. It was at my dad's medium-size evangelical church - my first real exposure to a sustained religious community - that I first saw people of different races and classes worshiping together.

I'm very proud of Family Ties. It's meant a lot to a lot of people.

I feel like history is about going and discovering the great human stories that just are every bit as relevant as anything that's going on today.

Man's true taproots are nourished in the sequence of generations, and he loses his taproots in disrupted developmental time, not in abandoned localities.

I wouldn't trade anything for family time. To me, it is more important than everything else, and I have a very deep-rooted belief in it, which is influenced by my Jewish faith. That's a very great source of who I am and what I believe in.

There is good news in the data the strongest support for priests is to be found among the younger generation.

At the beginning of the nineteenth century we abandoned tradition, it's at that point that I intend to renew it because the present is built on the past just as the past was built on the times that went before it.

You look around our audiences, and you see the spectrum - old fans and young people.

If you can figure out a way for people at all different stages of life to believe that they're all meaningful to each other, then yes, WeLive can work anywhere.

In search of my mother's garden, I found my own.

My family actually lived in the same village for about 400 years. They had great stability until the last century. People lived and intermarried in small villages.

The family is one of nature's masterpieces.

Family is becoming more and more important to me.

It's nice to see the young ones 7, 8, 9 years old. It seems like they know you through their parents.

The great thing about getting married young like I did and having a child so young is that he gets to know all the relatives. He knew his great-grandmother, and we sat down together and tied down the stories of our uncles and aunts. They were quite the characters, and we tied them to about 50 recipes. It's like a memoir-cookbook.

Homesharing is about dialogue, not disruption.