Willa Cather Quotes

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

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 want the 35-year-olds in my audience to think of me as as 'pops' giving the kind of advice that only 65-year-olds can understand.

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.

There are two barriers that often prevent communication between the young and their elders. The first is middle-aged forgetfulness of the fact that they themselves are no longer young. The second is youthful ignorance of the fact that the middle aged are still alive.

The passions of the young are vices in the old.

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

Nobody understands anyone 18, including those who are 18.

Old and young disbelieve one another's truths.

There is room in our ranks for the old and decrepit, as well as the young and vigorous.

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

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

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.

Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young.

It's sometimes comical to hear the younger generation ask their peers to repeat themselves.

Generally, older people in their fifties, sixties, and seventies are running most countries and are CEOs of corporations. Which isn't to say there aren't entrepreneurs, but if the young were better in every respect, there'd be no reason for the old. Our life span reflects our particular life strategy.

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?

My dad doesn't get any of my jokes. He laughs at them, but he doesn't understand them. He's just laughing because people around him are laughing.

As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost.

Reaching out to other people is important work. I am so pleased and honored that I'm getting the attention from the young people on social media. It's been missing.

It's a funny feeling to work with people who you consider your colleagues and to realize that they actually are young enough to be your children.

I was talking to a TV bigwig, and he said, 'Nobody under 35 knows who Sammy Davis is.' Well, you'll hear angry denials of that from younger people.

People always want to see that, the young lion going to take the old lion out.

Men and animals regard each other across a gulf of mutual incomprehension.

Flustered, she replied, "You're not my - my - grandmother, or something." "You'd talk about this with your grandmother? I can't possibly imagine discussing my dating life with mine. She's a lovely woman, I suppose. If you like them bald and racist.