Age Conflict Quotes

Whoever marries the spirit of this age will find himself a widower in the next.

The youth of the present day are quite monstrous. They have absolutely no respect for dyed hair.

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.

Rock and menopause do not mix.

I feel like a 16-year-old trapped inside a dead woman's body.

Some people say it's a when you get older fans the kids don't like you. It's true.

Twenty can't be expected to tolerate sixty in all things, and sixty gets bored stiff with twenty's eternal love affairs.

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

Rock had a huge impact. Anything that the older generation hates is usually loved by kids. Nothing much changes - that still continues today.

Families are families. We've all got them, more or less, and we all know what it's like to be bullied by another generation.

I'm a teenager trapped in an old body.

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

Wars are fought by teenagers, you realize that. They really ought to be fought by the politicians and old people who start these wars.

Who's more annoying to work with, boomers or millennials? Depends on how you feel about emojis.

Wars are started by old rich people. Young people want to party.

The older generation sat looking at the younger, and Kat wondered exactly when and how the baton had been passed. She wanted to know if it was too late to give it back.

I am too old to die young, and too young to grow up.

If you lack the power to demoralize yourself along with the age, to go as low and as far, do not complain of being misunderstood by it.

Do I feel like I'm 65? No. I feel like I'm 15. That's my problem. I'm trying as hard as I can to act like I'm 65, but it's very difficult.

For some strange reason a lot of people in my age demographic don't want to listen to veterans of this sport.

Until everyone in this country over 35 has passed away, the theocracy will still be alive. And I am not actually of the theocracy, and that could bother people. I think I've probably taken a bit of flak for that, as well as being an arsehole occasionally, obviously.

Nothing makes me want to scream louder than oldies doddering on to a train at a slow shuffle when the rest of us are just trying to get on with our day.

I'm OK being the veteran, but I'm still just a kid.

I wanted to be that cranky old guy that stands on his porch and yells at the neighborhood kids.

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