Raymond Arroyo Quotes

Old and young disbelieve one another's truths.

I'm not a big fan of young people.

Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation.

I remember sitting in on meetings where everyone in the room was twice as old as I was.

Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young.

Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn't have anything to do with it.

Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

Twenty can't be expected to tolerate sixty in all things, and sixty gets bored stiff with twenty's eternal love affairs.

Today's younger generation is no worse than my own. We were just as ignorant and repulsive as they are, but nobody listened to us.

I think old people like Hillary Clinton and I shouldn't try and be cool with social networks, you know; maybe she should leave that stuff up to Chelsea.

The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap.

I don't have faith in young people any more. I don't waste time trying to communicate with them.

If you're 30, 40 years old, you're not getting listened to by minors.

Each generation has a backlash against the generation before.

Kids and adults have a difference of opinion when it comes to what constitutes legitimate reading. Adults often push books that they loved as children, which, ironically, were often books that their parents weren't particularly keen on.

I'm not of this generation.

It's mad what each generation vilifies. It's not necessarily to do with logic.

Every generation challenges the one that goes before.

For the first time in human history, there are no elders anymore who know what young people know.

I've always found, when I was younger, that the older guys - the guys who weren't of my generation but were 20, 30 years older than me - were the cool guys.

The differences between Rand Paul and millennials are vast - not just on economics, but on social issues that matter to young people, too.

There are lots of things about me that aren't like the rest of my friends. But I try to learn as much about millennials as I can so I can stay afloat among them.

As long as cantankerous old people have existed, they have complained that kids nowadays don't seem to know anything.

Communicating with teenage girls is easy unless you're an adult, and then it's like having someone take a pair of pliers and, one-by-one, yank off your fingernails through your ears.

I think if you ignore the generation after yours, you will be obsolete very quickly.