Age Segregation Quotes

I'm sure that is a reason why young people occasionally bash up old people - because the ages don't mix any more.

When I joined a baseball club, the boys of my own age, and a little older, played in the first nine, those younger than myself played in the second, and those still younger in the third, and I played with them.

I have women friends who are significantly younger and older than me.

I just don't think I can write someone drastically younger than me.

You look out in our audiences, you don't see a sea of white-haired people. You see a lot of younger people.

Adolescence was invented in the 19th century to enable middle-class families to keep their children out of sweatshops. But it has degenerated into a process of enforced boredom and age segregation that has produced one of the most destructive social arrangements in human history: consigning 13-year-old males to learning from 15-year-old males.

On my show, I'm definitely the youngest one. So going from a show where everyone is over 30, to the movie, where everyone was like 20, 25, it was like summer camp.

Slowly I began to realize that the bells and the confinement, the crazy sequences, the age-segregation, the lack of privacy, the constant surveillance, and all the rest of the national curriculum of schooling were designed exactly as if someone had set out to prevent children from learning how to think and act, to coax them into addiction and dependent behavior.

Generational thinking has always been reductive and condescending.

On 'Game of Thrones,' all of my closest friends are 30 upwards, which is quite strange.

I don't think about 'age groups.'

All my staff is male and the same age group as me.

Every now and again it would be considered wholesome for me to be more with people of my own age. Demotion to such company was a sapless exile. Their inanity was insufferable.

Even the people I surround myself with... are wiser, a little bit older than me, where before, all my boyfriends were younger.

Even though I'm a family guy, there is something that feels really beautiful about eliminating all children from flying. So, children have to fly on child-only planes. And the pilots have to be children as well.

Jazz celebrates older generations and not just the youth movement. When you 'sell' only to people of a certain age, you get cut off from the main body of experience.

As far as I'm concerned, you either read books for children, or you read books for adults.

School divides life into two segments, which are increasingly of comparable length. As much as anything else, schooling implies custodial care for persons who are declared undesirable elsewhere by the simple fact that a school has been built to serve them.