Quotes About Generation gap

He was eight years older than I was, most of the calendar year.

It's true that we are more open than our parents but that just means we accept sex and talk about it. It doesn't mean we are all jumping in bed together.

You should have been in Atlanta right after she got her iPhone and texted all of us her plans to 'masterbate penis primavera,'" Kyra said, unsnapping Dustin's bib and scooping him up out of the high chair. Chase snorted with laughter. Maddie could see the curve of Troy's smile beneath the camera. "It seems clear that people over forty should not be allowed to text,

Our parents are mysterious to us in ways that we can never quite be mysteries to them.

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.

The remote control had 48 buttons. No resident of the Old Farts Senile Dying Center knew how to operate it. They were the Greatest Generation, men and women who had survived the Depression, defeated the Nazis, built America into the greatest nation the world had ever seen. But this damned gizmo had beaten them.

Kids today are smarter than we ever were. And they've got computers, too, which is awesome. They're scary to me.

Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

The Graduate, an Oscar-winning movie that appeared in late 1967, dramatized these changes. It featured a young man (Dustin Hoffman) who was in no way a hippie, a user of drugs, or a political radical. But he seemed unconnected to traditional values. Alienated from many things, he felt no kinship with fraternity men at his university or with materialistic adults of the older generation.

The generation gap is just another way of saying that the younger generation makes overt what is covert in the older generation; the child expresses openly what the parent represses."36 There was in the

Flora is like all these young girls nowadays, with no veneration for their betters and thinking they know best on every subject under the sun,

I think there is a generation gap. I personally look forward to, as our generation becomes the leaders, you are gonna see a change, and I think hopefully gay marriage will be a part of that country.

Whenever I watch a show and twentysomethings have a lot of 'Star Wars' references, I know it's written by a 40-year-old dude.

Consequently, no matter how they try, immigrants cannot prevent their children from becoming cultural products of the adopted country. Through their efforts at preservation, they can only accentuate the gap between the two cultures and prevent harmonization.

closer she got to forty, the more annoyed she was by people in their twenties.

I tell you what really turns my toes up: love scenes with 68-year-old men and actresses young enough to be their granddaughter.

Maybe it's just a daughter's job to piss off her mother.

There are things that you cannot talk to your mother and father about, there are things that you cannot talk to your children about.

The hippies wanted peace and love. We wanted Ferraris, blondes and switchblades.

You can rebel against everything adults say. When I want to find out what the new music is, I find out what parents hate.

The present generation doesn't know what a milestone is. They go so fast nowadays that miles mean nothing.

The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.

Bob Dylan was different. Where most folk singers were either clean-cut or homey looking, Dylan had wild long hair. He resembled a poor white dropout of questionable morals. His songs were hard-driving, powerful, intense. It was hard to be neutral about them. "The Times They Are a-Changing" was perhaps the first song to exploit the generation gap. Dylan's life was as controversial as his ideology.

In 1950, the [Gallup organization] asked high school kids, are you a very important person? Then 12 percent said yes. Asked again in 2005, 80 percent said, yes, I'm a very important person.