Generation Prelude

Famous quotes containing the words generation and/or prelude:

“One generation plants the trees under which another takes its ease.”
—Chinese proverb.

“The less sophisticated of my forbears avoided foreigners at all costs, for the very good reason that, in their circles, speaking in tongues was commonly a prelude to snake handling. The more tolerant among us regarded foreign languages as a kind of speech impediment that could be overcome by willpower.”
—Barbara Ehrenreich (b. 1941)