Antoine de Saint-Exupery Quotes

Friction and misunderstandings often occur when communicating across generations. It gets even more challenging when working across virtual settings.

Old and young disbelieve one another's truths.

With every year that passes, I get further away from my target audience, and while I've been happy to think of myself as a father figure to these kids, I'd be a little distressed to be thought of as a grandfather figure.

Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young.

It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.

I don't know how many times I heard older people, and not just parents but just older people, say, 'Oh, my God. Your generation is just totally nuts. You have no sense of what it was really like, when it was great.' And every generation has that same feeling, you know?

The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.

Intergenerational support is crucial. I feel like generations give up on each other. If you're Gen Z, you're like, "Gen X is never gonna get it." If you're Gen X, you're like, "Those Millennials are such idiots."

Between children and parents, there is a difficulty of seeing each other simply as people.

My biggest crisis is that I don't understand what young people like.

Each generation has a backlash against the generation before.

Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth.

Twenty can't be expected to tolerate sixty in all things, and sixty gets bored stiff with twenty's eternal love affairs.

You can never empathize with your parents as a teenager. You just think they're just on another planet.

Today's younger generation is no worse than my own. We were just as ignorant and repulsive as they are, but nobody listened to us.

I understand that there's a certain energy in youth, no question, in terms of pursuing jobs. But there is wisdom in age. It's too bad that the two can't come together because I do think that people are dropped from what they're really good at too soon.

I can't stand films where parents are portrayed as old and doddery, and ignore their kids.

I think old people like Hillary Clinton and I shouldn't try and be cool with social networks, you know; maybe she should leave that stuff up to Chelsea.

The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap.

The adults don't know what's happening on the kids' universe and the kids don't know what's happening on the adults' universe.

The difference between rearing a child in your 20s and one in your 50s is one of patience.

The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.

It's time for old players like me, old fogies like me, to give it up and let the young players have a chance.

I don't have faith in young people any more. I don't waste time trying to communicate with them.

Every generation challenges the one that goes before.