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There are two barriers that often prevent communication between the young and their elders. The first is middle-aged forgetfulness of the fact that they themselves are no longer young. The second is youthful ignorance of the fact that the middle aged are still alive.

— Jessamyn West

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I don't talk to old people; they try to find ways to stay static. Young folks are the ones with the ideas and constantly moving forward.

— Prince

Incidentally, one of the most worrying problems in the impact of Western modernity on traditional culture is that it quite rapidly communicates its own indifference or anxiety or even hostility about age and ageing.

— Rowan Williams

Unfortunately, there are mental invalids of every age who exist on other people's terms. It's lazy for older persons to let others make up their minds for them. People have to overcome that.

— Marian Seldes

As human beings we value the experience that comes with age. We are reminded over and over again with statements like 'older and wiser' and 'respect your elders,' promoting age as something to be cherished and respected.

— Jenna Morasca

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

— Haim Ginott

The exhaustion of old age is something people who are younger don't fully appreciate.

— Tony Benn

The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long.

— A. J. P. Taylor

Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.

— Doris Day

Being middle-aged is about realising that you've lived most of your life. You don't have as much time in front of you as you have behind you.

— Julianne Moore

The young come in many guises: vigorous and passionate, vindictive and mean-spirited. And not every person over 65 is dozing in a retirement home.

— Howard Jacobson

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