Quotes About Intergenerational

I've never dated anybody older, actually. There are so many things I'm curious about, and I'd love to be able to say, "Teach me." I want to learn from the people around me.

Oooh...Aunt Chelsea called Jake the D-word!"Rory's voice carries into the kitchen. "Dipshit?""No.""Dumbass?""No.""Douchebag?""What's a douchebag?""Rory!" Chelsea and I yell at exactly the same time.

You young people never say anything. And us old folks don't know how to stop talking.

I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.

Who's more annoying to work with, boomers or millennials? Depends on how you feel about emojis.

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.

John!" my grandmother blared as Harriet nodded in confusion. "Is that you?" "No, Grandmother," I said, trotting down the thick Persian carpet on the stairs. "It's Dr. Holmes.

I have the idea that we grandmothers are meant to play the part of protective witches; we must watch over younger women, children, community and also, why not? this mistreated planet, the victim of such unrelenting desecration.

A man over ninety is a great comfort to all his elderly neighbours: he is a picket-guard at the extreme outpost: and the young folks of sixty and seventy feel that the enemy must get by him before he can come near their camp.

(A country where) the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.

Are we going to fire the father to hire the son? We want to create jobs for young people, but not at the expense of others.

I hope my next movie is with like 80 year olds because I want to feel young again.

You need a really good mix between young and old, between experienced and hungry players.

I would definitely like to start working with more people over age 7.

That was one of the best, exciting things for me to play with them. They were very young and eager to go. I'd been playing with a band that was mostly old folks that had been together so long we couldn't do anything to excite each other.

I think fathers, mothers, grandfathers, grandmothers - we should look at what young people are saying to us.

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

A wisdom deficit - fewer elders and even fewer people who listen to them.

Our grandchildren will live together in a society with the offspring of neglected families. So will yours.

You have to really respect what your kids are doing with their kids and how they're raising them. You can't push your way into areas where you shouldn't be saying anything. You have to always remember they're not your own kids. Play with them, love them, spoil them to death - then hand them back.

Forty-eight hours of intensive grandniece/great-uncle bonding had ensued. In that short time Sophia's apparatus of modern kiddom had permeated Richard's apartment. Even if she never again set foot in this place, he would be finding Cheerios, glitter, sticky handprints, and barrettes for the next twenty years.

The millennials are incredibly good about getting information out in a clear way, but more importantly, they are incredibly good about understanding how to protect one another, how to protect their parents and how to protect their grandparents.

It would be better, in a way, if any adults present were completely uneducated. There is nothing children like more than passing on information they have just discovered to people who may not already have it - an elderly grandmother, for instance.

The young must learn to appreciate the wisdom of elderly people and learn from their life experiences.