Maya Angelou Quotes

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

Don't trust anyone over thirty.

Don't trust anyone over 30.

Every generation has had some sort of focus for their unrest and discomfort with growing up. But today, the music that's in the charts is probably liked by their parents as well, and I think it's a part of youth that you need something that isn't liked or understood by the older generation.

Young people are narcissistic. They become less narcissistic as they age, but they become crankier about younger people being narcissistic.

The most significant social pathology of my youth was the generation gap.

Sooner or later the young always betrayed the old.

One of the main truths of all education is that if the young are not always right, the old are always wrong.

Youth is always an enemy to the old.

Middle age is when you stop criticizing the older generation and start criticizing the younger one.

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 53. I don't care about high school students. I find them irritating and uninformed.

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

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.

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

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

One of the most startling events in my life was when my older son was about 16, and he blamed me for all the troubles of the world. So I, I felt like telling him, 'Oh no, I was just like you when I was your age; I wanted to change the world, too.'

Each generation has a backlash against the generation before.

I'm not of this generation.

You can never empathize with your parents as a teenager. You just think they're just on another planet.

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.

The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap.

People think that young people don't care about things, but I think they do care; they just aren't super interested in conforming to what older people think are the right way to do things.

Every generation challenges the one that goes before.

The young always have the same problem – how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.