Quotes About Generational divide

In 2008, I was one of the young feminist whippersnappers who voted for Barack Obama over Hillary Clinton in the Democratic primaries - or as many of my older counterparts called me at the time, a traitor.

It's awful when everything's before your time.

It is a sad commentary of our times when our young must seek advice and counsel from 'Dear Abby' instead of going to Mom and Dad.

I'm officially near-famous. If you've got four year old kids and you've got cable, then you've got no choice but to know who I am. But if you're one of my peers - a 26-year old guy who lives in Manhattan - you have no idea who I am. I'm only famous if you're four.

Le Pen is old; I'm young.

Young Evangelicals, especially, are breaking ranks with older Evangelicals (over 40) and are more and more leaning towards voting Democratic.

Voting is designed for old people.

No hagas caso a tu abuela, cariño. Ella es de los tiempos del cine mudo y nosotras, del sonoro.

No one ever wins a generational war.

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 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 young people think the old people are fools -- but the old people know the young people are fools.

Well, go on, Aunt Jane; haven't you got anything to say?' 'In a minute, dear, said Miss Marple. 'I am afraid I have counted wrong. Two purl, three plain, slip one, two purl?yes, that's right. What did you say, dear?' 'What is your opinion?' 'You wouldn't like my opinion, dear. Young people never do, I notice. It is better to say nothing.

For thousands of years, father and son have stretched wistful hands across the canyon of time, each eager to help the other to his side, but neither quite able to desert the loyalties of his contemporaries. The relationship is always changing and hence always fragile nothing endures except the sense of difference.

People are like, 'Well, she doesn't know the Sex Pistols.' Why would I know that stuff? Look how young I am. That stuff's old, right?

The English, in their ignorance, still have the romantic notion that Scottish schools are superior to English ones; they are at least a generation out of date.

The 1960s: A lot of people remember hating President Lyndon Baines Johnson and loving Janis Joplin and Jim Morrison, depending on the point of view. God rest their souls.

I have no patience with anyone born after World War II. You have to explain everything to these people.

Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.

Life is sweet, but sometimes old people just don't get it.

It's not an easy time for any parent, this moment when the realization dawns that you've given birth to something that will never see things the way you do, despite the fact that it is your living legacy, that it bears your name.

Show me a young Conservative and I'll show you someone with no heart. Show me an old Liberal and I'll show you someone with no brains.

Facebook just sounds like a drag, in my day seeing pictures of peoples vacations was considered a punishment

Abel," the chief shouted, "if you don't quit this letter writing, I'm going to have to take serious steps." "Off the end of the old dock, I hope," Grandpa replied as he slammed the door in the chief's face.