Older Generation Quotes
35 quotes by 32 authors
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What I tell these young people is, the world is not as dangerous as the older generation would like you to believe. Anyone I know…
— Jonathan Kozol
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The new generation has to hear what the older generation refuses to tell it.
— Simon Wiesenthal
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It's fascinating to work with a company of actors of such different ages, experience and talents. I'm one of a generation brought up on television…
— David Oyelowo
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They say I'm young, but my purpose is the inspiration of a nation, innovation 'till I change the talk into a conversation. I'm like a…
— Tyler James Williams
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The older generation had greater respect for land than science. But we live in an age when science, more than soil, has become the provider…
— Shimon Peres
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No matter your situation, you can make family history a part of your life right now. Primary children can draw a family tree. Youth can…
— Russell M. Nelson
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On my US tour maybe three out of 30 shows there was an Elvis impersonator in the crowd but that's it. I usually get younger…
— Lisa Marie Presley
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I cannot think that a player genuinely loving the game can get pleasure just from the number of points scored no matter how impressive the…
— Alexander Kotov
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The view after seventy is breathtaking. What is lacking is someone, anyone, of the older generation to whom you can turn when you want to…
— William Maxwell
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[A] new generation, innocent of the divisions of the Cold War, this coming-of-age. ... If its members do not feel the urgency to escape the…
— Jonathan Schell
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Schooling, by definition, must be conservative. It is naturally dependent on an older generation’s level of knowledge and sense of values.
— Leon Botstein
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What I'm doing is keeping the spirit of Rock'N Roll alive. Rock 'n roll is supposed to be fast and loud and its supposed to…
— Marilyn Manson
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It's the same thing now. When I go onstage the young people scream and holler as much as the older generation.
— Etta James
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Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.
— Laurence J. Peter
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Today's comedian has a cross to bear that he built himself. A comedian of the older generation did an act and he told the audience,…
— Lenny Bruce
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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…
— David Riesman
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If readers, young and old, would take even a moment to reflect on our rapidly shifting culture and ideology, I would be happy. Many leaders…
— Ted Dekker
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I've always written. I'm from an older generation of programmers [who] did not come out of engineering. [A]ll sorts of people were drawn in from…
— Ellen Ullman
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We of an older generation can get along with what we have, though with growing hardship; but in your full manhood and womanhood you will…
— Theodore Roosevelt
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People fall out of love, or get married for the wrong reasons. People change. The older generation - they got married and had a kid…
— Kellan Lutz
Who Wrote These Older Generation Quotes
32 authors contributed a total of 35 Older Generation Quotes, led by these top contributors: