Laura Fraser Quotes

The passions of the young are vices in the old.

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

Things change so fast, you can't use 1971 ethics on someone born in 1971.

Our conscience is not the vessel of eternal verities. It grows with our social life, and a new social condition means a radical change in conscience.

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

I'm not of this generation.

Generation after generation, there is this never-ending, contemptuous, condescending attitude to the next generation or the next way of thinking: music, art, politics, whatever. And I have never been like that.

A lot of elders don't really like me in music because they just think I'm a little cheeky prick and I'm arrogant. I'm definitely cheeky, I'm definitely a prick and I'm definitely arrogant.

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 can be pretty nasty. Not 'mean' nasty, but nasty by your parents' standards. But not by my parents' standards, because my parents were nasty for their day.

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

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.

Sometimes I want to yell on this track; I want to yell the whole song, and I don't think nothing's wrong with that, but the older generation feel like you can't.

I think the Baby Boom does have a tendency to get its nose in everything. The Greatest Generation had a better tendency to leave people alone. Of course, they also had a better tendency to hate everybody's guts.

Thirty is not an age for a woman anymore.

Old and young disbelieve one another's truths.

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

Europe to me is young people trying to appear middle-aged and middle-aged people trying to appear young.

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

Everyone matures. When I was Newt's age, I thought I had the right answer to things. The baby-boomers as political leaders are still on trial by the American people.

Morality is the custom of one's country and the current feeling of one's peers.

White people don't seem to have many Elders. They do have a lot of oldsters.

Don't trust anyone over thirty.

Each generation has a backlash against the generation before.