Intergenerational Relations Quotes

“The job of every generation is to discover the flaws of the one that came before it. That's part of growing up, figuring out all the ways your parents and their friends are broken.”
― Justine Larbalestier, Zombies Vs. Unicorns

“When you're a boy your life can be measured out as a series of uncomfortable conversations reluctantly initiated by adults in an effort to tell you things that you either already know or really don't want to know.”
― Ben Aaronovitch, Moon Over Soho

“We often hear about stepping outside ourselves, but rarely about stepping outside our generation.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

“That is what you're making of the end of your mother's life, child. What will you make of your own?”
― Kage Baker, The Bird of the River

“Previously young people had been expected to learn. Because they didn't want to appear to be ignoramuses, they worked hard willy nilly. But now all they have to say is: Everything in the world's nonsense! and that's that. Young people are delighted. The fact is that previously they were simply dunces and now they've suddenly become nihilists”
― Turgenev Ivan Sergeevich

“It's difficult to get on with people of another generation, even when they don't try to impose their way of seeing things on us.”
― Carmen Laforet, Nada

“For the kids at Chaff, the annual Career Day, held about two weeks before the summer break, was enough to make most of them at contemplate career suicide before they'd even taken an aptitude test or a written resume. Held outdoors on the schoolyard blacktop, the assemblage of coal miners, driving-range golf-ball retrievers, basket weavers, ditch diggers, book-binders, traumatized fire-fighters, and the world's last astronaut never does much to inspire.”
― Paul Beatty

“Is the murder of a king not of interest to you?”
“Yes, Brightness,” Shallan said. “We children love things that are shiny and loud.”
― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings

“Es difícil entenderse con las gentes de otra generación, aun cuando no quieran imponernos su modo de ver las cosas. Y en estos casos en que quieren hacernos ver con sus ojos, para que resulte medianamente bien el experimento, se necesita gran tacto y sensibilidad en los mayores y admiración en los jóvenes.”
― Carmen Laforet, Nada

“Hero had the sense that Pol's Ilocano was stuck in time, that he only wanted to speak it with the people he'd always spoken it to, but even when Hero and Pol spoke in Ilocano with each other in California, there was a playacting stiffness in their voices that hadn't been there back in Vigan, when Hero used to hang on every word.”
― Elaine Castillo, America Is Not the Heart