Yara Shahidi Quotes

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

I was stuck as a Boomer type in a lot of people's minds.

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 I don't like their attitude, which, if they weren't young and therefore bright and vibrant, would be called outdated.

Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

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?

It's almost a rite of passage for the middle-aged, it seems, to invent generational stereotypes for dumping on the young.

It's a fallacy that people think that today's teenagers are shallow or somehow less intelligent than in the past.

Discussions of generations only go downhill. There's no point in having them.

I think if you give in and accept society's stereotypes, then you start thinking, 'I cannot dance till late at night because I'm 70.'

I'm not a big fan of young people.

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

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

Old and young disbelieve one another's truths.

I remember sitting in on meetings where everyone in the room was twice as old as I was.

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.

I am somebody who focuses on a dialogue between generations - that's the drive of my work. I believe the young generation take the power; they'll take over at one point, but the older generation, they'll push it away only because of the fear. I'm the opposite; I'm curious.

When we are out of sympathy with the young, then I think our work in this world is over.

My dad was a great movie companion. He wouldn't diminish 'The Jerk.' If I liked it, he liked it. He could see it through my eyes.

Commissioners are obsessed with young people, which is funny because they don't watch telly - only old people do.

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

Don't trust anyone over thirty.

Each generation has a backlash against the generation before.

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