Ann Leckie Quotes

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.

Doesn't every generation feel like the one that's coming up behind them doesn't know how to grow up? I'm not sure if we're progressively getting worse or if your perspective shifts.

I'm not a big fan of young people.

Young people are the same as they always were. They are just as ignorant.

The trouble with the young people today is that it is they who are young.

But it's hard to be hip over thirty when everyone else is nineteen, when the last dance we learned was the Lindy, and the last we heard, girls who looked like Barbara Streisand were trying to do something about it.

Five-hundred years ago people were saying in manuscripts, "Can you believe these kids today?" They were saying that same phrase everyone says now. No one can believe the youth and what they're doing and how culture is going and how it might fall apart.

That’s the thing with the young these days, isn’t it? They watch too many happy endings. Everything has to be wrapped up, with a smile and a tear and a wave. Everyone has learned, found love, seen the error of their ways, discovered the joys of monogamy, or fatherhood, or filial duty, or life itself. In my day, people got shot at the end of films, after learning only that life is hollow, dismal, brutish, and short.

Naturally, grown-up citizens are concerned about the beatniks and delinquents. ... The question is why the grownups do not, more soberly, draw the same conclusions as the youth. Or, since no doubt many people are quite clear about the connection that the structure of society that has becoming increasingly dominant in our country is disastrous to the growth of excellence and manliness, why don't more people speak up and say so?

The old begin to complain of the conduct of the young when they themselves are no longer able to set a bad example.

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

There can be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. His instinct is to blame. If he is satisfied he says nothing; if he is not, he most illogically kicks up a row.

I'm that grumpy old guy yelling at all those pesky little Grizzly Bear fans to get offa my lawn.

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

Old and young disbelieve one another's truths.

There are younger directors, and anybody over 30 is ancient to them, because they're not that old.

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 have to choose my words carefully because I don't want to sound like one of those who goes on about how things were better in my day.

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?

I'm not of this generation.

When I went into the computer shop to change my last laptop, the 19-year-old kid behind the counter looked at my six-year-old model and described it as 'vintage.' 'Vintage?' I wanted to scream. 'Son, I've got shirts older than you! I own underpants that have seen more of the world!'

It's my belief we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain.

I just have a problem with youth culture.

You know, there are many people in the country today who, through no fault of their own, are sane. Some of them were born sane. Some of them became sane later in their lives.