Quotes About Intergenerational

Robert Frost: "Now when I am old my teachers are the young.

You know you're old when your family talk about you in front of you. What are we going to do with Pop? We have company tonight.

Gathering of the Vibes is a gathering of the elders, a gathering of the youth, a gathering of family

My father was afraid of his father, I was afraid of my father, and I don't see why my children shouldn't be afraid of me.

I want my children to have all the things I couldn't afford. Then I want to move in with them.

Me neither, " Shane put in. "Homie don't play that.""I wonder, sometimes, if your generation speaks English at all, " Amelie said.

What cannot be talked about cannot be put to rest. And if it is not, the wounds will fester from generation to generation.

The older generations have eaten the future of the younger ones.

A healthy community is one in which the elderly protect, care for, love and assist the younger ones to provide continuity and hope

They drive back home to grab his backpack and as he bends and kisses his grandma Agnes, she scrunches a one-hundred-dollar bill in his hand. "Buy yourself some chocolates, Tom." It's what she'd say to him as a kid with a twenty cent coin.

Granny, we're not going to make it!" Sabrina shouted, battling the roaring engine to be heard. "I love pancakes, too," the old woman shouted back. I hate this car, Sabrina thought to herself.

We are not members, . . . we are commodities. . . . When our men have used us up so that we look sixty when we're thirty and our wombs have literally dropped out of our bodies onto our spotless kitchen floors, finished, they turn to our daughters.

It's terrible when the old have to bury the young. But it is more terrible when neither the old nor the young are there to bury each other.

Os vivos comunicam-se mutuamente numa linguagem que, em grande medida, foi moldada pelos mortos. Assim, os mortos se vingam dos vivos por violarem seus valores.

We've got to think now, in real terms, for that seventh generation . . . We've got to get back to spiritual law if we are to survive.

unavoidable repetition of "family life" (with intergenerational conflicts, sibling rivalry, "primal scene" material, etc.)

It's unfair to lay all responsibility for the future on the younger generation. After all, the problems they face are partly due to the fact that we, their elders, screwed up. Worse still, it's not true that the young alone are in charge of what comes next. We—young and old together—hold the future in our hands. If our common life is to become more compassionate, creative, and just, it will take an intergenerational effort.

Old women in the house. That's all we need," grumped Grandfather. "That from an old man, of course," said Papa.

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.

It's healthy to have older friends. You go, 'Look, I'm younger than them!' That's always the nice thing, if you can be the youngest one in the room at times. Like if you're always the oldest one in the room, you'll start to feel like the oldest person in the world. So get older friends, because they're cool. Get cool older friends.

Yet somehow our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is in the way that it cares for its helpless members.

El primero, nuestros padres a menudo nos educaron de maneras que replicaron ciegamente la manera en que ellos fueron educados. Y segundo, a menudo fueron apoyados en su educación disfuncional por las normas y valores sociales de sus tiempos.