Charles Murray Quotes

I'm not a big fan of young people.

I'm too young for Medicare and too old for broads to care.

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 I don't like their attitude, which, if they weren't young and therefore bright and vibrant, would be called outdated.

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?

Now there is this whole terror about getting old. Today, that fascination with youth is overrated. What's so special about being young? I just say that because I'm old.

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 survived turning 60, I was not thrilled to turn 61, I was less thrilled to turn 62, I didn't much like being 63, I loathed being 64, and I will hate being 65. I don't let on about such things in person; in person, I am cheerful and Pollyanna-ish. But the honest truth is that it's sad to be over 60.

I don't talk to old people; they try to find ways to stay static. Young folks are the ones with the ideas and constantly moving forward.

My wife and daughter both bust me on how much I am the guy yelling at kids to get off my lawn.

Nobody wants to see the old person at the club.

It's all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.

"Old" is definitely not cool in America. Never has been.

I have tried... believe me, I have tried to like rap music. It makes me feel so very, very old. I have tried to get home with the downies.

Bill Clinton, Mr. Bob Dole, You too old to understand tha way tha game is told.

You grow weary of being treated as the enemy simply because you are not young anymore; because you dress unexceptionally.

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.

There are still generations of people, older people, who were born and bred and marinated in it, in that prejudice and racism, and they just have to die.

Young. Old. Just Words.

When I was young, the old regarded me as an outrageous young fellow, and now that I'm old the young regard me as an outrageous old fellow.

I'll be 50 years old tomorrow and that means, among other things, that now Bob Dole can start telling jokes about me.

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, old people in America had prayed, "Please God, don't let me look poor." In the year 2000, they prayed, "Please God, don't let me look old." Sexiness was equated with youth, and youth ruled. The most widespread age-related disease was not senility but juvenility.

Eh. Hipster's not really a thing anymore. Plus, hipster or out of touch old dude? Same uniform really.

It makes me so mad that some people underestimate the wisdom and energy of young people. All because they don't look the way older folks think they should look. I'm working on a song about it. Maybe some of those closed minded people will realize long hair and tattoos don't mean they should be ignored. Close minded people are part of what's wrong with this world.

To a large extent, the aged in our society are ghettoized. Old people are seen as useless, bypassed by history, old-fashioned, in the way. So, not surprisingly, when we reach the official mark of old age, we're supposed to go gently into that good night, to get off center stage and hand over the spotlight. Old age is also surrounded by shame - the myth of impotence and inability.

The public is anold woman.Let her maunderand mumble.