Aging Quote by Alice Walker

Young people nowadays love luxury; they have bad manners and contempt for authority. They show disrespect for old people... contradict their parents, talk constantly…

— Socrates

I see a couple of things missing. Any society, any community, even in the family, when the elders don't do their jobs, the youth…

— Iyanla Vanzant

We should pay as much reverence to youth as we should to age; there are points in which you young folks are altogether our…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

there are now no elders who know more than the young themselves about what the young are experiencing.

— Margaret Mead

Just as kids need to learn to respect their elders, we are a society that increasingly respects our youth.

— Faith Salie

In our long and obsessive passion for youth, we have - more than any other modern society - avoided direct approach to age and…

— Marya Mannes

Today's youth are told to get rich or die trying and they really shouldn't take that attitude forward with them.

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

“A lot of elders complain that they do not know what is wrong with today's black generation. I beg to ask them what was…

— Crystal Evans

Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

— Anonymous

Young people...have more compassion and tenderness toward the elderly than most middle-aged adults. Nothing--not avarice, not pride, not scrupulousness, not impulsiveness--so disillusions a youth…

— Louise J. Kaplan

The task of youth is not only its own salvation but the salvation of those against whom it rebels, but in that case there…

— Jane Addams

Both the young and the old are almost completely useless in our modern society, and are made keenly aware of that uselessness. They have…

— Carl Rogers