Generational Exchange Quotes

The thing I enjoyed most were visits from children. They did not want public office

The culture means the younger generation respecting the OGs, but at the same time, bringing it all to the older generation to where they can relate.

I find it always pleasurable talking with young people, particularly those aspiring to be writers, out of nostalgia, and because I've always felt that we oldies can learn so much from them and draw from them inspiration in our flagging and rickety years.

I'm happy that good works by young artists with limited chances will see the light of day by my purchasing them.

It's nice that established and emerging stars agree to appear in ambitious low-budget films. Such pro-bono work gives the movie a higher profile and the actors a potentially more distinguished resume.

I have a good shopping relationship with my mum. She lets me buy, and she spectates. I take advice from her, and I give it, too.

I love being around kids. I couldn't figure out why all these 70-year-olds wanted to hang out with me when I was 27. Now I understand, and I'm trying to steal their energy from them like they stole from me at the time.

I feel like we can learn from each other by us, being the young generation, giving knowledge to the older guys.

I like to keep in touch with younger photographers. It's important that a younger generation comes up and questions the assumptions made by old farts like me.

Make sure that your kids or the kids in your life have an opportunity to share their ideas, and to teach you something about what we know.

This generation should entertain this generation. It's only fair. When I was a kid, I mowed the lawn. Now, somebody else's kid can mow the lawn.

In many of my books, I explore the ways in which grandparents or other older persons are shaped by the young, and the young are shaped by the old, in an evolving dance.