Quotes About Generation gap

There's a generation now that didn't grow up in nature. Some of these adults are parents and they know that nature is good for their kids but they don't know where to start.

Old-fashioned people think you can have a soul without money. They think the less money you have, the more soul you have. Young people nowadays know better. A soul is a very expensive thing to keep: much more so than a motor car.

My dad is this typical orthodox, narrow-minded Punjabi man in front of whom you can't even utter the word called 'boyfriend.'

It is, indeed, one of the capital tragedies of youth-and youth is the time of real tragedy-that the young are thrown mainly with adults they do not quite respect.

I don't have faith in young people any more. I don't waste time trying to communicate with them.

had the good fortune to come from a generation that had no YA books available. Once you moved beyond children's books there was nowhere to go but adult books.

It's a stinking world because it lets the young get on to the old like you done, and there's no law nor order no more.

Miss Thorne made no reply. She felt that she had no good ground on which to defend her sex of the present generation from the sarcasm of Mr. Plomacy. She had once declared, in one of her warmer moments, "that now-a-days the gentlemen were all women, and the ladies all men." She could not alter the debased character of the age. But

What if our children are all super-bright and I can't understand what they're saying and they look down on me because I haven't got a PhD?

The young men of this generation mock the words of age; it would be well if they mocked nothing else; but what can we expect of those who doubt all and believe nothing?

The older generation grew up on blow-dried anchors, plastic politicians, and an ocean of pretense. Realness seems unvarnished and unpolished to them.

You have to give kids something to rebel against. You can't like their music - you have to call it noise. It's incumbent on a parent.

I had hippie parents, and I found it difficult to figure out how to rebel against them.

Many fathers and sons never get to reconcile their differences or come to an understanding that fills the gap between love and expectations.

You don't understand!" she exclaimed bitterly. "That," said his lordship, with a touch of acidity, "is a foolish accusation which lacks even the saving grace of originality! Every generation, my child, has said, or thought, that the preceding one was devoid of understanding or experience.

Madam Field was not an exhilarating companion, as her mind ran on illness and death, and the froward ways of the younger generation.

CEOs are called by their first names by young whippersnappers. That makes everybody uncomfortable. We need order and structure back in the workplace.

I know if I were in your generation I would be really tired of seeing Sophia Loren as a sex object.

I raised my kids kind of old-fashioned - if you don't have something nice to say, then don't say it at all. I teach love, acceptance, and tolerance... I sometimes think that this generation is lacking in decency.

Every time an adult is going to write something for a teenager and you don't have, physically, a person who is that, you are always going to be a little off.

Jack Paar mentioned that he once had said to a young friend, "Why do you kids use 'cool' to mean 'hot'?" The friend replied, "Because you folks used up the word 'hot' before we came along.

The generation gap is an important social tool for any repressive society. If the younger members of a community view the older members as contemptible or suspect or excess, they will never be able to join hands and examine the living memory of the community, nor ask the all important question, Why? This gives rise to a historical amnesia that keeps us working to invent the wheel every time we have to go to the store for bread.

she hated everything her parents loved

She was being like those bratty girls in movies from the 1980s, and my mom kept saying Young Lady after every sentence.