Quotes About Generational divide

Episode 5: Meanwhile, they'd all lost touch, because they didn't have Facebook and phones were expensive or whatever. (You do have to feel sorry for the older generation. I mean, all this "pay phones" and "telegrams" and "airmail." How did they cope?)

You are terrified of your own children, since they are natives in a world where you will always be immigrants.

The generation that comes next is always going to rebel against the generation that came before, and they're always going to be at odds with each other.

Every old dude hates young people.

My kids think I'm old and over the hill.

The Cold War has been over for a long time. I'm not interested in having battles that, frankly, started before I was born.

I came of age in the Sixties, when there were chances, when it was all there waiting. Now they seep out of school – to what? To nothing, to fuck-all. The young (you can see it in their faces), the stegosaurus-rugged no-hopers, the parrot-crested blankies – they've come up with an appropriate response to this, which is: nothing. Which is nothing, which is fuck-all. The dole-queue starts at the exit to the playground.

What better way is there to police the streets of a minority community than to turn one generation against the other?

The two families really don't like each other, except for all us younger cousins because we don't know any better.

The guys who won World War II and that whole generation have disappeared, and now we have a bunch of teenage twits.

World War II brought the Greatest Generation together. Vietnam tore the Baby Boomers apart.

It's especially hard to admit that you made a mistake to your parents, because, of course, you know so much more than they do.

it's so crazy that the disgusting perma-tanned billionaire has set a new intellectual and moral low by being president of America and basically it all means that the older generation has RUINED EVERYTHING and her generation is doooooomed

Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.

The Top 40 is geared toward 20 and under, not 20 and up. That's the audience I'm geared to.

The desire for the edited life crosses generations, but the young consider it their birthright.

all roads converge on a single moment on June 25, 1950. For those of her generation who lost somebody, life is forever divided between before that day and after.

You're on Facebook, Uncle Reid?" Athens asked. "Of course he is," Liliana said. "That's where all the old people go to waste their time." "Hey,

Consistency, constancy, and undeviating diligence to maintain Christian character are a must if the older generation is to command respect, or even a hearing, from the young.

Junior year of high school. Ask Mom and Dad what they did yesterday, they won't remember. Ask them about anything from his youth, and it's like they studied replays at night. He held up his hands in mock surrender. "Got me.

Yippies, Hippies, Yahoos, Black Panthers, lions and tigers alike -- I would swap the whole damn zoo for the kind of young Americans I saw in Vietnam.

You probably love to tell kids to get off your lawn, too.

Sometimes I want to yell on this track; I want to yell the whole song, and I don't think nothing's wrong with that, but the older generation feel like you can't.

There's a big difference, as I'm sure you know, it's a slightly manneristic one, between people of the '60s and people of '68. Being a soixante-huitard - it's so nice to have a French word for it - is very different from just having happened to been a baby boomer in the '60s.