Fourth Generation

Famous quotes containing the words fourth generation, fourth and/or generation:

“For the Lord thy God is a jealous God among you.”
—Bible: Hebrew Deuteronomy, 6:15.

The words are also found in Exodus 20:5, referring to the second commandment: “Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image ... for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me.”

“I asked my mother for fifty cents
To see the elephant jump the fence.
He jumped so high he reached the sky,
And didn’t get back till the Fourth of July.”
—Unknown. I Asked My Mother (l. 1–4)

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