Quotes About Generation gap

whether we feel admiring of our parents, reconciled to them, or still estranged, still teetering near a cliff of anger, we recognize that we can never meet them in agreement about what we have encountered beyond their experience.

My casual talk with my adult children brings with it another fleeting sadness: They are the age I was when it became, because of profound political differences, difficult for me to chat easily with my parents: vituperation always lurked. They and I later reconciled but those years of loss now add a special poignancy.

As a father, you immediately become uncool, especially the older they get. The older you get, it's inevitable that, as cool as you think you are, you're probably just as lame in your kids' eyes.

I listen to heavy metal thanks to my son. When I argue with him on the kind of music he is listening to, he says, 'listen to it.' I listen and think well that is not so bad!

Talking to young people gets us nowhere, I thought, and anyone who asserts the contrary is a hypocrite, for young people have nothing to say to their elders, to old people—that's the truth. What the young have to say to the old is of absolutely no interest, none whatever, I thought, and to assert the contrary is gross hypocrisy.

Oh, mother, really you need not dust them. It would take years to dust all those little holes." And she frowned at the top of her mother's head and bit her lip with impatience. Mother's deliberate way of doing things was simply maddening. It was old age, she supposed, loftily.

A few seconds later, her reply came in. WTF an A! I blinked, sure I was misreading. But no, the letters didn't change. Me: Nana, do U know what WTF means?? Her: Of course silly, it means "well, that's fantastic.

There's something unsettling about the education of a child who comfortably enumerates the rules for surviving zombie apocalypse but finds it uncomfortable to enumerate the rules of his grandparents' faith, if he knows them.

Old and young disbelieve one another's truths.

My son Cooper has just turned ten and the sarcasm fairy has already started to take up residence inside his body. Not only am I living with my mother - again! - but I've also got her mini-me to contend with.

In Chinese culture, it wouldn't occur to kids to question or talk back to their parents. In American culture, kids in books, TV shows and movies constantly score points with their snappy back talk. Typically, it's the parents who need to be taught a life lesson - by their children.

There's a moment in time where kids really don't want to hear anything from their parents.

This war has already stretched the generation gap so wide that it threatens to pull the country apart.

When my father is happy with my music, I know I have done something good, and there is no question of generation gap.

Kids today are technologically sophisticated. In many families, they are far ahead of their parents.

A modern child could teach old Hepzibah more than old Hepzibah could teach the child.

It is the plight of every child to have depth their parents can scarcely imagine.

Her father stood stiffly, as if his knees ached. Of a sudden Evie realized that he was, in fact, old: or at least middle-aged, which from a twenty-three-year-old perspective was the same thing. Hair thinning and graying to ashy silver, belly sagging over the waistband of the jeans he wore on his day off, a reminder that he'd met her mother after a rock concert in 1980.

One of the misconceptions about BlackBerry is that it's your parents' smartphone.

My mother was 45 when she had me, so when I was in high school my parents were the same age as my friends' grandparents.

By the late '60s, the culture gap separating young people from their parents was perhaps greater than at any point since the early 19th century.

The young will no longer be advised by the old," she said to the hall porter. "That is because we advised them to die," said the hall porter.

Jemubhai looked at his father, a barely educated man venturing where he should not be, and the love in Jemubhai's heart mingled with pity, the pity with shame.

It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.