Ted Dekker Quotes

Some people accuse the new generation of being ignorant, maybe ignorant for the old generation, but it's a new language.

My generation, we're so smart and opinionated, and we know the world we want to live in; we know the future we want. We're such a liberal, forward-thinking generation that's been held back by an older generation that doesn't understand it, doesn't want the world to progress quickly because of old ideologies.

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.

It's all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.

Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn't have anything to do with it.

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

Tons of comedians have said, 'I grew up learning from Bill Cosby. He's great.' But that respect doesn't mean much to the young people. They like their ginger ale with hot sauce.

What we need to do is open our eyes, smell the coffee and just understand what the society has become. Today, I can discuss many things with my 15-year-old son which I could not talk about with my father.

The youth doesn't know what they want while the older generation remains stuck in the past. But the basic concept of entertainment remains the same - demand and supply - and that won't change.

My generation of radicals and breakers-down never found anything to take the place of the old virtues of work and courage and the old graces of courtesy and politeness.

there are now no elders who know more than the young themselves about what the young are experiencing.

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

The problem with the youth of today' is that one is no longer part of it.

I'm sure all the people who have been born 20 years ago don't know anything about me at all except 'LOVE', and that's a nasty word.

The end of the First World War had thrown Germany's youth into great turmoil. The reins of power had fallen from the hands of a deeply disillusioned older generation, and the younger ones drew together in larger and smaller groups to blaze new paths or, at least, to discover a new star to steer by.

Almost anybody from the past will hold views discordant with the present.

Rock had a huge impact. Anything that the older generation hates is usually loved by kids. Nothing much changes - that still continues today.

I feel like we've had a front row seat for the last 20 years to watching culture and youth.

The Macorinos and me - there's a big space between our generations. The people I was used to work with, we will do everything faster. And the Macorinos were more, like, calm. They were patient with music, and they were paying a lot of attention to the details.

I had mentors, growing up in gay life - older gay men who told me about our history and the history of art and culture - but somehow, the younger generation missed out on that synergy.

A lot of times, older people don't get the new generation.

The culture means the younger generation respecting the OGs, but at the same time, bringing it all to the older generation to where they can relate.

It's disrespectful to the older generation to have long hair. They fought in two world wars; they didn't fight for us to grow our hair and look like girls.

If you're 30, 40 years old, you're not getting listened to by minors.

I always thought millennials are going westward, and they probably won't understand vernacular poetry.