Jessica Valenti Quotes

Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation.

The generation that comes next is always going to rebel against the generation that came before, and they're always going to be at odds with each other.

Every generation proclaims that each must lead his own life, but seldom grants the subsequent generation the right to lead theirs.

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.

Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile.

There is not that much of a generation gap these days.

The slogan was 'Don't trust anyone over thirty'. Sixty years later the slogan became, 'Don't trust anyone over ninety'.

I don't like the way young people write and talk about the old. I don't like their attitude, which, if they weren't young and therefore bright and vibrant, would be called outdated.

Trouble is, kids feel they have to shock their elders and each generation grows up into something harder to shock.

Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.

I'm not of this generation.

I don't think about 'age groups.'

I think people nowadays do tend to blame their parents for everything.

It's mad what each generation vilifies. It's not necessarily to do with logic.

My grandmother is very liberal, but... she still has her opinions.

I have dealt with three generations of players, each one of them was different.

Just because people are older, they don't have the right to tell you what's right and wrong.

The most significant social pathology of my youth was the generation gap.

The young people think the old people are fools -- but the old people know the young people are fools.

I keep very close in touch with the fans - to see what they like. I'm very in touch with my audience; I get older and they get younger, which I think is the ultimate compliment. I think hitchhiking brought a few of them out! Even though all young people have never hitchhiked, all people my age did at one point in their life, they just don't do it now.

Do you think me horselike, my lord?" Realizing the threat to his personage, Blackmoor wiped the smile from his face and replied, "Not at all. I said I think you charming." "A fine start.

People are ultimately threatened by young people taking positions of power.

Isn't it our job to be appalled by our parents? Isn't it every generation's duty to be dismayed by the previous generation? And to assert that we are different - only to discover later that we are distressingly the same?

Three has always been tougher than Two. Think of any of your famous threesomes. The Three Stooges? Look at the anger there. My bet is that before Curly was born, Moe and Larry could play together for hours without even a single poke in the eye. Huey, Dewey, and Louie? Donald Duck never had a moment's peace. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly? I rest my case.