Quotes about Intergenerational

We have always needed old people to keep things from going too fast and young people to keep them from going too slow. Youth has fire and age has light and we need both.

(A country where) the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.

You might be surprised by how interested young people are in older people.

It's nice for me to be in touch with a younger generation.

As people grow older, some of the ways they have contributed in the past may no longer be possible, but the challenge to society is not only to provide help and care where these are needed but also to offer the opportunity to contribute and care for others

The young ones have always a claim on the old to help them forward.

Young people, you need the wisdom of age, just as some of us older ones need your enthusiasm for life.

My granddaughter came to spend a few weeks with me, and I decided to teach her to sew. After I had gone through a lengthy explanation of how to thread the machine, she stepped back, put her hands on her hips, and said in disbelief, "You mean you can do all that, but you can't play my Game Boy?"

The historical system of mutual pillage and extortion stops here on Arrakis," his father said. "You cannot go on forever stealing what you need without regard to those who come after. The physical qualities of a planet are written into its economic and political record.

Society is indeed a contract ... it becomes a participant not only between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.

Most young people have tremendous respect for older people's views.

Somehow, we have to get older people back close to growing children if we are to restore a sense of community, acquire knowledge of the past, and provide a sense of the future.