Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
Nobody under the age of 55 should be able to stand for election, and nobody under the age of 30 should be able to vote in those elections.
Anything invented after you’re thirty-five is against the natural order of things
I had heard so much negative talk about our generation, that we're slackers and young fogies, that I knew wasn't true of the people I know.
I was taught by professors who had done their schooling in the 1930s. Most of them were scornful of, even hated, big business.
My Grandmother wouldn't even speak the word Democrat if there were children in the room, she'd say Bastards instead.
Just as the baby boom generation seemed to believe it was the first to discover sex, many of its members also seemed to think they were the first to discover the horrors of war.
I think that I am misunderstood because people perceive me to be a certain way because I am generational. They expect me to be entitled and expect me to have things early on. I think people misconstrued that honestly.
Millennials get a bad rap sometimes about their grit and perseverance.
You kind of get the same adjectives coming back over again and over again describing millennials. I think the national rhetoric around this generation is unfairly negative.
I wish I could be on 'Politically Incorrect.' Because Bill Maher basically dismisses teenagers, and I think I could give my generation a good name.
This is where I break one last taboo: I'm incredibly glad I'm not a granny.
Millennials are often portrayed as apathetic, disinterested, tuned out and selfish. None of those adjectives describe the Millennials I've been privileged to meet and work with.
Millennials can be very hardworking, but it's easier to tell the story of the ones who are entitled.
I lose my patience, and I own it too, When works are censur'd, not as bad but new; While if our Elders break all reason's laws, These fools demand not pardon but Applause.
I was stuck as a Boomer type in a lot of people's minds.
People think unless you have loops and electronics and so on, you must be in your 50s. I quite like a lot of things that have loops and sequencers, but I couldn't really be bothered.
Nothing's new since Genesis. And so everybody in their life thinks history began when they were born. Most people's historical perspective happened when they were born in the sense that nothing has ever been this bad. "We've never gone before this before," and of course we have. Things have been worse in many ways in the country.
Why are young adults so self-centered and always seeking instant gratification? Because older adults, often in positions of power, paint them that way.
I have to choose my words carefully because I don't want to sound like one of those who goes on about how things were better in my day.
Every generation thinks the cultural rot during their time is worse than it's ever been. That's not true.
I get a little cranky with the whole business about kids not having attention spans. This reminds me of the usual business of thinking that the next generation is hopeless. Every generation has said that about every younger generation.
every generation has a conceit of itself which elevates it, in its own opinion, above that which comes after it.
People come from a certain generation and a certain whole way of looking at things, and you really do become a prisoner of your own world.
'Millennials' has become a kind of modern swearword, a slur directed at people in their early 20s.
