Pharrell Williams Quotes

It is not new for the older generation to bewail the indolence of the young, and there is a tendency for the latter to maintain much of the older ethic screened by a new semantics and an altered ideology.

Every generation challenges the one that goes before.

I have dealt with three generations of players, each one of them was different.

The generation that comes next is always going to rebel against the generation that came before, and they're always going to be at odds with each other.

Classically, it's the child who looks up at their parents who says, 'This is how the future is going to be,' and it's the parents who don't understand because they're set in their ways. For me, it was the exact opposite.

Every generation proclaims that each must lead his own life, but seldom grants the subsequent generation the right to lead theirs.

He doesn't translate well into our generation.

It seems to be typical of life in America ... that the second generation has no time to talk to the first.

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.

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

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

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

Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers.

I do not agree with [Samuel P.] Huntington that the world has a clash of civilizations. The word has a clash of generations.

We live in an age of generational turmoil. Baby-boom parents are accused of clinging on to jobs and houses which they should be freeing up for their children. Twentysomethings who can't afford to leave home and can't get jobs are attacked as aimless and immature.

I realize that there's a whole generation of kids out there like me who are totally disregarding the moral values taught to us by our parents.

What one generation finds ridiculous, the next accepts; and the third shudders when it looks back on what the first did.

Each generation criticizes the unconscious assumptions made by its parent. It may assent to them, but it brings them out in the open.

Isn't it our job to be appalled by our parents? Isn't it every generation's duty to be dismayed by the previous generation? And to assert that we are different - only to discover later that we are distressingly the same?

These young people naturally grow up with ideas different from ours, for they are born for times when we shall no longer be here

Sooner or later the young always betrayed the old.

When three generations are present in a family, one of them is bound to be revolutionary.

Young people live exactly today... and they live in the immediacy of their world. And it's important for us, people from older generations to realize that a lot of our values, a lot of our truths are no longer truths, are no longer valuable.

I don't find the wave model very productive, because I think it kind of serves to fan the flames of generational tension, or make it seem like there's more generational tension than there actually is.

I still feel my generation is split on their attitudes.