Cease Quote by Homer

The generation of men is like that of leaves. The wind scatters one year's leaves on the ground, but the forest burgeons and and…

— The Iliad

Generations of men are like the leaves. In winter, winds blow them down to earth, but then, when spring season comes again, the budding…

— Anonymous

Men in their generations are like the leaves of the trees. The wind blows and one year's leaves are scattered on the ground; but…

— Homer

The generation of mankind is like the generation of leaves. The wind scatters the leaves on the ground, but the living tree burgeons with…

— Homer

Like the generations of leaves, the lives of mortal men. Now the wind scatters the old leaves across the earth, now the living timber…

— Homer

a generation that cannot endure boredom will be a generation of little men, of men unduly divorced from the slow process of nature, of…

— Bertrand Russell

The generations of men run on in the tide of time, but leave their destined lineaments permanent for ever and ever.

— William Blake

Some men become what they were born for.

— Sheenagh Pugh

When you touch the life of a man of this generation, that influence is felt through generations yet to come.

— Gordon B. Hinckley

In literary history, generation follows generation in a rage.

— Annie Dillard

Men are born, and then they're formed.

— John Marston

One generation and another generation; the generation by which we are made the faithful, and are born again by baptism; the generation by which…

— Saint Augustine