Quotes About Intergenerational

There are many thrilling things about being a grandmother—who knew it would be so satisfying at my age to put my right foot in, to take my right foot out, to put my right foot in, and to shake it all about?

A dinner made up wholly of young people is generally stupid.

These days, we listen to our children, not they to us. Given what we've done to the planet, perhaps they have a point. Tasked with passing the baton, like hundreds of generations before us, my team has fumbled the handoff.

When I was 19 and dropped out of college for several months, I lived for some time with my grandmother.

Even when my grandparents compliment me, I don't like when they do that.

What advice do I tell my grandson? I listen to him.

The young ones have always a claim on the old to help them forward.

I just feel energized when I am around young, talented people. There is something about these kids that's amazing. I learn as much from them as they do from me.

In the family sandwich, the older people and the younger ones can recognize one another as the bread. Those in the middle are, for a time, the meat.

My favorite time to dance is at, like, wedding receptions, when it's all ages and everyone seems to be having fun.

Neither do I like to see what I call a young people's corner in a church. They often catch habits of inattention and irreverence there, which it takes years to unlearn, if ever they are unlearned at all. What I like to see is a whole family sitting together, old and young, side by side, men, women, and children, serving God according to their households.

though the matter of getting on well with young men in no circumstances presented serious difficulty to her.

Thus Carol hit upon the tragedy of old age, which is not that it is less vigorous than youth, but that it is not needed by youth...

Our parents are the coolest parents ever. No other generation went on from writing letters to their own parents to sending snapchats to their own kids.

If you start to feel old - start working with young people.

The space that cannot be filled, no matter how cheerfully a child and an old person are living together—the deathly silence that, panting in a corner of the room, pushes its way in like a shudder. I felt it very early, although no one told me about it.

It is because the young cannot recognize the youth of the aged, and the old will not acknowledge the experience of the young, that they repel each other.

And I should like to know why you talked of us to Mrs Scaling as though you had been our grandfather!' 'I feel like your grandfather,' he replied.

If your mother did not know how to love herself, or your father did not know how to love himself, then it would be impossible for them to teach you to love yourself. They were doing the best they could with what they had been taught as children.

I am convinced that grandkids are inherently evil people who tell their grandparents to "just go to the library and open up an e-mail account - it's free and so simple.

I always had an easier time with adults. Somehow, I was always old! I still feel old.

His thirty-something son moved in to care for him.

The hardest thing about talking to teenagers, I had discovered, was that whatever you said inevitably came across like something an elderly aunt would say at a wedding.

Both young children and old people have a lot of time on their hands. That's probably why they get along so well.