Generational Differences Quotes

“The generation born between 1995 and 2012, called iGen (or sometimes Gen Z), is very different from the Millennials, the generation that preceded it. According to Jean Twenge, an expert in the study of generational differences, one difference is that iGen is growing up more slowly. On average, eighteen-year-olds today have spent less time unsupervised and have hit fewer developmental milestones on the path to autonomy (such as getting a job or a driver's license), compared with eighteen-year-olds in previous generations.”
― Greg Lukianoff & Jonathan Haidt, The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting up a Generation for Failure

“Have my parents forgotten that they were young once? Apparently they have. At any rate, they laugh at us when we're serious, and they're serious when we're joking.”
― Anne Frank, Diary of a Young Girl

“All this business of going through phases, it's just a thing that older people say, they think they have the right to look at you from their moldy perches and pass judgement on your life.”
― Hilary Mantel, A Place of Greater Safety

“My generation, we're like animals born in captivity: we accept the state of things because it's pretty much all we've ever known. Sailor was old enough to have experienced a better world. And that knowledge was a sadness she could never shake.”
― Emma Sloley, The Island of Last Things

“the seed of the apple doesn't turn out like the tree it came from. It becomes something of its own, sometimes better, sometimes not.”
― Scott Pearce, faded yellow by the winter