Older Generations Quotes

#1. A lot of youth today have become very narrow and conservative in a way, whereas we in the older generation are kind of living it.

Marc Almond

#2. Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.

Laurence J. Peter

#3. I've always found, when I was younger, that the older guys - the guys who weren't of my generation but were 20, 30 years older than me - were the cool guys. I always wanted to be around adults when I was young.

Stephen Dorff

#4. Experience was static in the valley; it was older than time itself, for time was a thing of but two generations, dated by moons and ending with the day in which he found himself.

Peter Matthiessen

#5. My sister and my brother, of whom I have not spoken before, were considerably older than I; it seemed almost as if we belonged to different generations.

Pierre Loti

#6. The classical music scene was completely unfamiliar to me. It was something that I didn't have the most fun associations around. A lot of people don't - they think of older generations and stuffiness. But it's not. You listen to the Overture of 1812, and you can hear a rock n' roll catharsis.

Lola Kirke

#7. Older generations can sometimes look down on today's hip hop but I refuse that mindset. I remember how hurt I was when older people told me that Run-D.M.C. was jungle music or that it was not music at all. Or that LL Cool J was not art.

Erik Parker

#8. Older generations of Wi-Fi weren't quite robust enough to deliver video in the home without breaking up and losing packets and so forth. 5G Wi-Fi gives you extended reach, extended data rates, and more robust coverage.

Henry Samueli

#9. All of the generations go to what is chic for them, and theater seems to be an older generation's art form.

Estelle Parsons

#10. I am somebody who focuses on a dialogue between generations - that's the drive of my work. I believe the young generation take the power; they'll take over at one point, but the older generation, they'll push it away only because of the fear. I'm the opposite; I'm curious.

Raf Simons

#11. There are still generations of people, older people, who were born and bred and marinated in it, in that prejudice and racism, and they just have to die.

Oprah Winfrey

#12. Schooling, by definition, must be conservative. It is naturally dependent on an older generation's level of knowledge and sense of values.

Leon Botstein

#13. The beauty of collaboration between older and younger generations is that we combine strength with wisdom - a surefire way to accomplish more for the glory of God.

Brett Harris

#14. In many ways, the young are more religiously minded than the older generations. I think it's the flip side of an age of individualism. Youngsters are not afraid to tell you what they think, to express their faith and be quite exuberant about it.

Vincent Nichols

#15. Older generations are living proof that younger generations can survive their lunacy.

Cullen Hightower

#16. Young people live exactly today ... and they live in the immediacy of their world. And it's important for us, people from older generations to realize that a lot of our values, a lot of our truths are no longer truths, are no longer valuable.

Walter Mosley

#17. Funerals consist of older generations initiating the younger into another adulthood. Filling spaces of the one passed.

Darnell Lamont Walker

#18. I really look to past generations. I think my grandparents, friends' grandparents, or even parents of my older friends grew up in a time when they used everything. There was a more mindful way of moving through life. You didn't waste.

Elizabeth Rogers

#19. His mind wandered, seeking other examples. People - particularly older ones - still spoke of putting film into a camera, or gas into a car. Even the phrase "cutting a tape" was still sometimes heard in recording studios - though that embraced two generations of obsolete technologies.

Arthur C. Clarke

#20. It's always great playing with other musicians. It's also a great situation where I'm the older guy, I've influenced generations of guitar players.

Ace Frehley

#21. Once your children are grown up and have children of their own, the problems are theirs and the less the older generation interferes the better.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#22. I do think that one needs to have respect for people who are older. And I really do love the idea that one can respect generations.

Madeleine Albright

#23. We're genuinely happy if some musicians of this younger generation are influenced by our music, as we were ourselves influenced 10 years ago by older musicians.

Thomas Bangalter

#24. I'm not good at texting because I'm an older generation, old school. And nobody ever listens to the answering machine anymore. It's terrible.

Igor Levit

#25. It is not new for the older generation to bewail the indolence of the young, and there is a tendency for the latter to maintain much of the older ethic screened by a new semantics and an altered ideology.

David Riesman

#26. We lost so many talented artists and writers from the generations before ours that we're really lacking older figureheads.

Christopher Bollen

#27. Jazz celebrates older generations and not just the youth movement. When you 'sell' only to people of a certain age, you get cut off from the main body of experience.

Wynton Marsalis

#28. I don't want this music to die.The older people are passing it on to the younger generation so the younger generation can pass it on to the next generation.

Vy Higginsen

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

Giuliano Amato

#30. Demography is changing us as we are older societies, we're living longer. How the generations balance each other out, how that affects education and health care.

Howard Baker