Best Older Generation Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: Good Girl, Bad Blood

“The situation of the younger generation all over the world is anger. Everybody is angry; angry at society, angry at God, angry at existence and angry at everything. For the first time man has shown his anger towards reality, existence. It is the very atmosphere today. The situation of the younger rgeneration is a mirror of the older generation. But you cannot live a creative life through anger. Then life becomes destructive. And before destroying anything, you have to destroy yourself. And people are destructive in every possible way. All over the world there is chaos, anarchy and destructivity. It has become symbolic of being young to be an anarchist and to create chaos. If there is a creative purpose behind destruction, if you are doing it to create something, then it is creative and beautiful. But if the destruction becomea goal in itself, then it becomes destruction for destruction's sake. Meditation is the way to become a loving and creative being. It is the opposite of being angry and destructive. People are angry, because their life is unfulfilled. Life is not giving them anything, and people do not longer believe in heaven beyond death. They want heaven right now. But it is not a question of asking for heaven, you have to create heaven. It depends on how you live. It depends on your lifestyle. Meditation means love is going to be your lifestyle. It means that creativity is going to be your lifestyle, And sharing whatsoever you have will make many flowers blossom in your being. Share your life, share what you have, that is what love is. Share yourself, share your creativity, and share your love. Instead of anger, create love. When love goes sour, it becomes anger. When you share your love, you will see that life is an immense gift. And then there is gratitude towards life. And when one'w heart is full of joy, gratitude and creativity one is religious.”

Life Creativity Creative Meditation Society Anger Younger Generation Older Generation Destructivity

Book:The Way of the Heart

Source: The Way of the Heart

“It always a blessing to learn the wisdom from elderly people.”

“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 the social sciences and humanities.”

People Humanity Social Written Generations Engineering Programmers Social Science Older Generation

Author:Ellen Ullman

“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 want what nature once so bountifully supplied and man so thoughtlessly destroyed; and because of that want you will reproach us, not for what we have used, but for what we have wasted...So any nation which in its youth lives only for the day, reaps without sowing, and consumes without husbanding, must expect the penalty of the prodigal whose labor could with difficulty find him the bare means of life.”

Source: Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia

“People fall out of love, or get married for the wrong reasons. People change. The older generation - they got married and had a kid when they were 20. How do you know who you are when you're 20?”

People Knows Reason Kids Fall Generations Married Who You Are Falling In Love Do You Know Wrong Reasons Older Generation

Author:Kellan Lutz

“I remind young people everywhere I go, one of the worst things the older generation did was to tell them for twenty-five years "Be successful, be successful, be successful" as opposed to "Be great, be great, be great". There's a qualitative difference.”

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Author:Cornel West

“Even very recently, the elders could say: 'You know, I have been young and you never have been old.' But today's young people can reply: 'You never have been young in the world I am young in, and you never can be.' ... the older generation will never see repeated in the lives of young people their own unprecedented experience of sequentially emerging change. This break between generations is wholly new: it is planetary and universal.”

People Knows World Has Beens Today Young Break Generations Universal Elders Emerging Unprecedented Older Generation

Author:Margaret Mead

“Older generations are living proof that younger generations can survive their lunacy.”

Generations Proof Younger Generation Lunacy Older Generation Living Proof

Author:Cullen Hightower

“Our chaotic economic situation has convinced so many of our young people that there is no room for them. They become uncertain andrestless and morbid; they grab at false promises, embrace false gods and judge things by treacherous values. Their insecurity makes them believe that tomorrow doesn't matter and the ineffectualness of their lives makes them deny the ideals which we of an older generation acknowledged.”

“Being a digital photographer I'm in awe of the older generation of photographers who created all those iconic cinematic style images on film, such as Man Ray's portrait of the photographer Lee Miller.”

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Author:Paul Walker

“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.”

People World Important Today Young Values Realizing Generations Valuable Immediacy Older Generation

Author:Walter Mosley

“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. The power of couple dancing and courtship, it's elegant, and you wouldn't realize America was once a nation of dancers and singers today. People of all races could dance and sing.”

People Body Age Today America Certain Nations Realizing Race Cutting Generations Movement Youth Couple Sells Dancing Jazz Singers Celebrate Dancer Elegant Courtship Older Generation

Author:Wynton Marsalis

“The ukulele has always appealed to the older generation.”

Generations Ukulele Older Generation

Author:Jake Shimabukuro

“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.”

Children Problem Generations Our Children Your Children Interfere Older Generation

Author:Eleanor Roosevelt

“The classical music scene was completely unfamiliar to me. A lot of people 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.”

People Thinking Generations Rocks Scene Rock N Roll Classical Music Unfamiliar Catharsis Older Generation

Author:Lola Kirke

“Although their parents died in the wilderness for their stubbornness, Israel could profit from the older generation's failure by remembering that God had used adversity to train them.”

Remember Used Parent Generations Died Adversity Train Profit Israel Wilderness Stubbornness Older Generation

Author:Max Anders

“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.”

School Generations Terrible Machines Old School Texting Answering Machines Older Generation

Author:Igor Levit

“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.”

Way Kind Today Generations Youth Conservative Older Generation

Author:Marc Almond

“I do think it's fascinating to see a play where everybody's sort of, in various ways, uprooted, and you see the older generation, the parents, whose faith has been something concrete that has guided them through a specific set of hurdles and circumstances.”

Thinking Way Has Beens Play Parent Generations Circumstances Various Fascinating Concrete Hurdle Older Generation

Author:Stephen Karam

“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.”

People Looks Art Sometimes Running Today Remember Hurt Generations Hip Hop Refuse Mindset Hips Hops Jungle Older People Older Generation

Author:Erik Parker

“We, the older generations, simply cannot leave a world for you, the younger generations, in which climate change impacts become ever more threatening to your survival. Still more public attention and action are needed. Solutions like renewable energy or energy efficiency need to fully power our collective future!”

“You have the older generation like Iris Murdoch and Angus Wilson who are not as old as Graham Greene, but still are coming on. I dare say anyone who knew the scene better than I know it could fill it in with a very satisfactory supply of novels.”

Knows Stills Novel Generations Scene Dare Wilson Irises Older Generation

Author:William Golding

“I think there's a whole older generation that will go to movies still. People like me; people over 45.”

People Thinking Stills Whole Generations Like Me Older Generation

Author:Oliver Stone

“When we see society telling women that they have a certain time, that they make women compete with each other, the older generation competing with the younger generation. They've made us believe that there's not enough men out there for us or that we're only hired because of our looks and not because of our abilities.”

Men Believe Looks Made Enough Certain Ability Generations Competing Younger Generation Older Generation

Author:Karla Souza

“Mao Zedong Thought was not created by Comrade Mao alone - other revolutionaries of the older generation played a part in forming and developing it - but primarily it embodies Comrade Mao's thinking. Nevertheless, victory made him less prudent, so that in his later years some unsound features and unsound ideas, chiefly "Left" ones, began to emerge. In quite a number of instances he went counter to his own ideas, counter to the fine and correct propositions he had previously put forward, and counter to the style of work he himself had advocated.”

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Author:Deng Xiaoping

“There's an older generation that feels like they know what the future should be. And then there's your generation that may have an idea of what the future should be, but that could evolve.”

Knows Feels Should May Ideas Generations Evolve Older Generation

Author:Pharrell Williams

“What has been forgotten is that there were major intellectual breakthroughs in the 1960s, thanks to North American writers of an older generation. There was a rupture in continuity, since most young people influenced by those breakthroughs did not enter the professions.”

People Has Beens Young Generations Majors Intellectual Forgotten Profession Thanks Breakthrough 1960s Continuity American Writer Older Generation Rupture

Author:Camille Paglia

“I was so upset with what was going on in the world. I just couldn't stand the idea of being people tortured and that we even had such a thing as war. I hated the older generation, who had not done anything about it. Punk was a call-to-arms for me.”

People World Ideas War Done Generations Arms Hated Upset Punk Older Generation

Author:Vivienne Westwood

“The schools would fail through their silence, the Church through its forgiveness, and the home through the denial and silence of the parents. The new generation has to hear what the older generation refuses to tell it.”

Home School Parent Church Silence Failing Generations Forgiveness Refuse Denial New Generation New Home Older Generation

Book:The Sunflower

Source: The Sunflower

“The fear of the never-ending onslaught of gizmos and gadgets is nothing new. The radio, the telephone, Facebook - each of these inventions changed the world. Each of them scared the heck out of an older generation. And each of them was invented by people who were in their 20s.”

People World Generations Changed Scared Radio Invention Telephones Never Ending Gadgets Nothing New Older Generation

Author:Daniel H. Wilson

“I always want to tell these young idealists that the world is not as dangerous as many in the older generation want them to believe...The [people] for whom I feel the greatest sadness are the ones who choke on their beliefs, who never act on their ideals, who never know the state of struggle in a decent cause, and never know the thrill of even partial victories.”

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Author:Jonathan Kozol

“Until recently each generation found it more expedient to plead guilty to the charge of being young and ignorant, easier to take the punishment meted out by the older generation (which had itself confessed to the same crime short years before). The command to grow up at once was more bearable than the faceless horror of wavering purpose, which was youth.”

Source: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

“If many of our young people have lost the excitement of the early settlers, who had a country to explore and develop, it is because no one remembers to tell them that the world has never been so challenging, so exciting... Perhaps the older generation is often to blame with its cautious warning: “Take a job that will give you security, not adventure.” But I say to the young: “Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, and imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of a competence.”

“The older generation sat looking at the younger, and Kat wondered exactly when and how the baton had been passed. She wanted to know if it was too late to give it back.”

Ifs Knows Giving Wanted Generations Late Sat Too Late Baton Older Generation

Author:Ally Carter

“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 who has ever taken a risk and lost a job has ended up getting a better one two years later.”

People Knows World Years Believe Two Jobs Young Lost Taken Risk Generations Dangerous Like You Two Years Older Generation

Author:Jonathan Kozol

“The new generation has to hear what the older generation refuses to tell it.”

Generations Youth Refuse New Generation Older Generation

Book:The Sunflower

Source: The Sunflower

“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 whose acting is more 'naturalistic', whereas with some of the older generation it's more heightened. But I think there's room for both styles.”

Thinking Different Age Actors Rooms Acting Company Generations Talent Style Television Fascinating Older Generation Different Ages

Author:David Oyelowo

“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 doctor and my patients are anxiously waiting; healing all the hatin' that fakin' in the paper chasing. It's hard to live up to these expectations that I'm facing, and gain the admiration of an older generation. That's why I'm pacing back and forth, contemplatin' mediatatin', how to use what I've been taught is a positive force.”

“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 of growth and abundance. Living just on the land creates loneliness in an age of globality.”

Age Growth Greater Generations Land Loneliness Soil Abundance Birthday Providers Older Generation

Author:Shimon Peres

“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 participate in proxy baptisms. They can also help the older generation work with computers. Parents can relate stories of their lives to their posterity. Worthy adult members can hold a temple recommend and perform temple ordinances for their own kin.”

“The older generations have eaten the future of the younger ones.”

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Author:Giuliano Amato

“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 fans, and those that come that are of an older generation end up walking out because it's too loud”

Ends Shows Three Generations Fans Walking Crowds Loud Walking Out Older Generation Impersonators

Author:Lisa Marie Presley

“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 total. I will not speak of myself, but for the masters of the older generation, from whose games we learned, the aesthetic side was the most important. -”

Thinking Important Matter Games Speak Sides Pleasure Numbers Beauty Player Generations Masters Chess Aesthetic Impressive Older Generation

Author:Alexander Kotov

“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 satisfy your curiosity about some detail of the landscape of the past. There is no longer any older generation. You have become it, while your mind was mostly on other matters”

Want Mind Matter Past Turns Views Generations Curiosity Details Landscape Lacking Seventies Breathtaking Older Generation

Book:All the Days and Nights: The Collected Stories

Source: All the Days and Nights: The Collected Stories

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

Art Seems Form Generations Theater Chic Older Generation

Author:Estelle Parsons

“[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 nuclear danger that some of its parents felt, neither has it developed the deep attachment to nuclear arms also often found among their parents, including most of the governing class. ... The call for abolition should therefore be, among other things, a call from an older generation to younger one.”

“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 piss off the older generation.”

Spirit Alive Generations Rocks Supposed To Be Loud Rock N Roll Older Generation

Author:Marilyn Manson

“Schooling, by definition, must be conservative. It is naturally dependent on an older generation’s level of knowledge and sense of values.”

Values Levels Generations Definitions Conservative Dependent Schooling Older Generation

Book:Jefferson's Children: Education and the Promise of American Culture

Source: Jefferson's Children: Education and the Promise of American Culture

“As tough as things have been, I am convinced you are tougher. I've seen your passion and I've seen your service. I've seen you engage and I've seen you turn out in record numbers. I've heard your voices amplified by creativity and a digital fluency that those of us in older generations can barely comprehend. I've seen a generation eager, impatient even, to step into the rushing waters of history and change its course.”

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