Generational Dynamics Quotes

As an actor ages north of 60, he tends to be in more father roles than anything else. It's generational. And it tends to be a relationship that fascinates people, the flawed relationships between parents and kids.

Baby boomers helped me a great deal in my career. They launched me. They were there for me to sing my song to. And I'm not saying I'm better than anyone, but I think they turned that anti-authority baby boom mentality into their own enemy. Now I identify very closely with their children.

Children are not our property, and they are not ours to control any more that we were our parents' property or theirs to control.

When three generations are present in a family, one of them is bound to be revolutionary.

I think there comes a point in probably most father-son relationships where the son kind of starts becoming the parent.

Never have the young taken themselves so seriously, and the calamity is that they are listened to and deferred to by so many adults.

I was the only male of the Arnaz family in my generation.

I have dealt with three generations of players, each one of them was different.

The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.

It is said that what is called "the spirit of an age" is something to which one cannot return. That this spirit gradually dissipates is due to the world's coming to an end. For this reason, although one would like to change today's world back to the spirit of one hundred years or more ago, it cannot be done. Thus it is important to make the best out of every generation.

I really believe that more harm is done by old men who cling to their influence than by young men who anticipate it.

I think young generation is always better than last generation. No matter you like it or don't like it. My father said, 'Jack, I'm so good, you'll never be' - but I'm better than him. My father is better than my grandfather. My children will be better than us.

We are the buffoons of our children.

I'm a nice middle-class girl in real life, and I'm a mom and a grandma, and I usually play sweet characters.

Old people should be heard but not seen. Young people should be seen, not heard.

In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.

If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.

As it can be maintained that all the great advances have come from men under forty, so the history of the world shows that a very large proportion of the evils may be traced to the sexagenarians, nearly all the great mistakes politically and socially, all of the worst poems, most of the bad pictures, a majority of the bad novels and not a few of the bad sermons and speeches.

I have a big family full of massive personalities so i just sit there most of the time great fun to listen to their stories.