Generational Clash Quotes

Too bad, whenever adults tell kids to enjoy their childhoods, kids are like, 'You don't understand anything,' and everyone is right.

The generation that comes next is always going to rebel against the generation that came before, and they're always going to be at odds with each other.

My wife came into my life, and my mother still wanted to be the boss.

When I was 12, my feet were so small, I wore my sisters' glitter shoes. My dad would whoop me: 'You're not going to school now, you'll embarrass us!'

All good technology should be used to piss off people's parents.

The clatter of a changing world is not pleasant, and those who have enjoyed the comforts and protection of the old order may be shocked and unhappy when they behold the vigorous young builders of a new world sweeping away their time-honored antiquities.

My dad was a very conservative Republican businessman, so obviously I considered it a problem when I realized I was a lesbian.

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

The workplace has become a psychological battlefield and the millennials have the upper hand, because they are tech savvy, with every gadget imaginable almost becoming an extension of their bodies. They multitask, talk, walk, listen and type, and text. And their priorities are simple: they come first.

Each generation has a backlash against the generation before.

I don't like it when I hear it said: 'but these youth say stupid things!'

Me and my dad were so much alike that we would just butt heads. I pretty much hated him from the age of 16 to 24 for no real reason.

Age looks with anger on the temerity of youth, and youth with contempt on the scrupulosity of age.

I don't want to name any names, but I've worked on television shows where there's a guy writing for my generation who's, like, 60 - and it doesn't work.

You have to give kids something to rebel against. You can't like their music - you have to call it noise. It's incumbent on a parent.

When Shanthi Ranganathan was the featured turn on 'Hip Hop Saved My Life With Romesh Ranganathan,' we learned she didn't allow him to have a girlfriend until he'd finished university, and she learned - to her unfeigned horror - that he used to sneak girls into the house when she was out.

The most significant social pathology of my youth was the generation gap.