Top 33 Older Generation Quotes

I’m of the older generation. I accept the new technology, but I try to keep a bit of that away.

I’m one of a generation brought up on television whose acting is more ‘naturalistic’, whereas with some of the older generation it’s more heightened. But I think there’s room for both styles.

You will attract the younger generation and they might well prove tougher than the older generation. What we are trying to do is to look at the future and see what we can do to bring some stability back to people’s lives.

For an older generation of employees, social media often remains misunderstood and underutilized.

It’s rare enough as an older generation player that you’re 100% fit – there’s always something niggling.

It’s the same thing now. When I go onstage the young people scream and holler as much as the older generation.

I look up to the older generation of men – Arthur Scargill, Tony Benn, Jeremy Corbyn – but my main role model has been my step-granddad Jim. He’s brilliant, very political, quite eccentric.

There has been some snobbishness, particularly among the much older generation. There’s class and then there’s the racial thing.

Remixes also appeal to the older generation who get to revisit their past through these songs and after all, music is loved by all, so the more music, the happier people are.

The death of Churchill at 90 was one of those watershed moments in which the obituary rises to a special calling beyond the sharing of remembered times. It gave an older generation a rare opportunity to explain something of itself to its children.

There are a lot of complaints by the older generation about the lack of action in this generation. My retort: give these people something to be engaged in. Cutting a check is not engaging.

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.

The end of the First World War had thrown Germany’s youth into great turmoil. The reins of power had fallen from the hands of a deeply disillusioned older generation, and the younger ones drew together in larger and smaller groups to blaze new paths or, at least, to discover a new star to steer by.

The youth doesn’t know what they want while the older generation remains stuck in the past. But the basic concept of entertainment remains the same – demand and supply – and that won’t change.

That was the beauty of ‘Twin Peaks.’ The young people had just as deep of storylines as the older generation in town.

Sometimes I want to yell on this track; I want to yell the whole song, and I don’t think nothing’s wrong with that, but the older generation feel like you can’t.

On my US tour maybe three out of 30 shows there was an Elvis impersonator in the crowd but that’s it. I usually get younger fans, and those that come that are of an older generation end up walking out because it’s too loud.

While the women of the older generation were thankful if only they succeeded in obtaining ‘a work and a duty,’ however monotonous and wearing it might be, the will of the younger generation for a pleasurable labour has fortunately increased.

The ukulele has always appealed to the older generation.

I was so upset with what was going on in the world. I just couldn’t stand the idea of being people tortured and that we even had such a thing as war. I hated the older generation, who had not done anything about it. Punk was a call-to-arms for me.

I was more interested in the older generation as they seemed to be the last remaining remnants of the British Raj – people who remembered the railway cantonments, the Marilyn Monroe look-a-like contest, the Central Provinces,’ and so on, a world long gone.

My grandmother raised me for a good portion of my life. She moved to Los Angeles with me to be an actor, so I’ve always had a connection with an older generation.

With an older generation, there’s some weight carried with the Beatles. There’s almost like an untouchable, god-like force field around them.

The fear of the never-ending onslaught of gizmos and gadgets is nothing new. The radio, the telephone, Facebook – each of these inventions changed the world. Each of them scared the heck out of an older generation. And each of them was invented by people who were in their 20s.

The schools would fail through their silence, the Church through its forgiveness, and the home through the denial and silence of the parents. The new generation has to hear what the older generation refuses to tell it.

As far as stand-up, a lot of Asians and Chinese are not as apt to stand-up, especially the older generation since they don’t even know what stand-up is.

Rock had a huge impact. Anything that the older generation hates is usually loved by kids. Nothing much changes – that still continues today.

I wouldn’t say they’re neglected, but everybody is going to grow old and we should be looking after the older generation more than we do at the moment.

I’m an older generation.

We have to understand what the older generation has dealt to us, what mess they have created that we have to clean up and live with.

It’s disrespectful to the older generation to have long hair. They fought in two world wars; they didn’t fight for us to grow our hair and look like girls.

While the older generation is content to sit around and critique culture, that culture is moving beyond them. At some point the traditional church and all of the expressions of that church will become essentially irrelevant.

There’s some members of the older generation who have been conditioned with such closed minds.