Older generations Quotes

Where older generations are out there struggling to fact-check information and cite sources, Gen Zers don't even bother. They just read the headlines and then speed-scroll to the comments, to see what everyone else says. They're outsourcing the determination of truth and importance to like-minded, trusted influencers.

I remember the people I knew in prison; I was very fortunate to know them - they came from 1910, 1920, 1930.

The older generations are too wedded to political parties, too wedded to romantic memories of what education was like when they were kids, and too wedded to the status quo group that clings to power.

Young people live exactly today... and they live in the immediacy of their world. And it's important for us, people from older generations to realize that a lot of our values, a lot of our truths are no longer truths, are no longer valuable.

Part of what I loved - and love - about being around older people is the tangible sense of history they embody. I'm interested in military history, for instance, because both my grandfathers fought in World War II. I'm interested in writing because one of those grandfathers wrote books.

In films, usually we see romantic relationships between a hero and a heroine all the time. But we rarely see love between the older generations.

Now, do I think the baby boomers tend to be self-absorbed? I do.

Millennials are much more informed than they get credit for, and many are more politically knowledgeable than older generations.

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.

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

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.