Quotes About Generation gap

My father hated rock and roll - hated it. My first real argument with my father was over the Rolling Stones. And he never, ever liked rock and roll. He just liked me.

..my father was the best man in the world and probably worth a hundred of me, but he didn't understand me. The town he lived in and the town I lived in were not the same.

Unfortunately my parents had recourse to principles entirely different from those which I suggested they should adopt

Your modern teenager is not about to listen to advice from an old person, defined as a person who remembers when there was no Velcro.

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.

When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.

It's funny, now there are so many bands that I can never remember any of their names. Maybe it's because I'm old.

You'd be surprised." Charlie said."You go to bed one night singing her a lullaby, and she wakes up listening to Limp Bizkit.""What the hell is Limp Bizkit?

I look at him. "It's odious," he says. "Detention?" I ask, confused. "Huh?" We have no idea what the other is talking about. "What's odious?" I ask. "O.D.S," he says, pointing to his discman and obviously referring to some dropkick band. Like I really care.

I am so accustomed to the young mom phenomenon, that when I saw the poster for The Proposal I wondered for a second if the proposal in the movie was Ryan Reynolds suggesting he send his mother, Sandra Bullock, to an old-age home.

That man is such a damn turd monkey." "Grandma!" I said. "Oh, Zoeybird, did I just call your mother's husband a damn turd monkey out loud?" "Yes, Grandma, you did." She looked at me, her dark eyes sparkling. "Good.

My wife's a lot younger than me ... thirty years difference . . . You should never marry a woman a lot younger than you ... Never ...

You could pretty much eat dinner off the glare she gives me. "I'll thank you not to talk to your elders that way, boy.

Pour moi comme pour plusieurs de mes condisciples, la relation du maître et du disciple était chose morte ; ne serait-ce que parce que nous avions d'autres idées que nos maîtres, qui n'avaient que leurs conceptions scientifiques d'avant-guerre ; nous étions sûrs de notre supériorité sur la génération précédente (ce qui vaut mieux que de gémir sur la décadence et de maudire son époque [...]).

I have a grandson who is 20. He's a computer guy. I'm worried that he can't communicate without his machine. They have no personal contact with people. That's the bad part of technology.

The main problem was I don't like people in general and people my age in particular, and people my age are the ones who go to college.