Baby Boomer Quotes - Page 2

• And as for baby-boomer parents cluck-clucking about illegal substances, ah, gimme a break. Still, I think I'll pass on the rave. But more power to 'em, I say.

  Ken Wilber

  Baby, Thinking, Parent

  Ken Wilber (2000). “One Taste”, p.2, Shambhala Publications

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• A masterwork. A particularly American magic realism that touches the heart of race and childhood in our country; it's 100 Years of Solitude for an entire generation of American Baby Boomers, and deserves the widest possible audience.

  Ellen Kushner

  Country, Baby, Heart

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• Do you think we enjoy hearing about your brand-new million-dollar home when we can barely afford to eat Kraft Dinner sandwiches in our own grimy little shoe boxes and we're pushing thirty? A home you won in a genetic lottery, I might add, sheerly by dint of your having been born at the right time in history? You'd last about ten minutes if you were my age these days.

  Douglas Coupland

  Home, Thinking, Shoes

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• And I apologize to all of you who are the same age as my grandchildren. And many of you reading this are the same age as my grandchildren. They, like you, are being royally shafted and lied to by our Baby Boomer corporations and government.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Baby, Reading, Grandchildren

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• Baby Boomers becoming Republicans while Dems become outdated.

  Newt Gingrich

  Baby, Principles, Becoming

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• In the consumer culture of marriage, commitments last as long as the other person is meeting our needs. We still believe in commitment, because we know that committed relationships are good for us, but powerful voices coming from inside and outside tell us that we are suckers if we settle for less than we think we need and deserve in our marriage. Most baby boomers and their offspring carry in our heads the internalized voice of the consumer culture-to encourage us to stop working so hard or to get out of a marriage that is not meeting our current emotional needs.

  William J Doherty

  Baby, Powerful, Believe

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• We have the means right now to live long enough to live forever. Existing knowledge can be aggressively applied to dramatically slow down aging processes so we can still be in vital health when the more radical life-extending therapies from biotechnology and nanotechnology become available. But most baby boomers won't make it because they are unaware of the accelerating aging process in their bodies and the opportunity to intervene.

  Ray Kurzweil

  Baby, Mean, Opportunity

  "The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology". Book by Ray Kurzweil, 2005.

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• We have been so successful in the past century at the art of living longer and staying alive that we have forgotten how to die. Too often we learn the hard way. As soon as the baby boomers pass pensionable age, their lesson will be harsher still.

  Terry Pratchett

  Baby, Art, Successful

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• Baby boomers selling your rumors of their history, forcein' youth away from the truth of what's real today

  Mike Watt

  Baby, Real, Rumor

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• Baby boomers helped me a great deal in my career. They launched me. They were there for me to sing my song to. And I'm not saying I'm better than anyone, but I think they turned that anti-authority baby boom mentality into their own enemy. Now I identify very closely with their children.

  George Carlin

  Song, Baby, Children

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• The major break in the understanding of manliness is not between, say, the nineteenth century and any particular preceding era but between my generation of Baby Boomers and the entire proceeding complex of teachings. In some ways, TR and Churchill have more in common with Homer and Shakespeare than they do with us.

  Waller R Newell

  Baby, Teaching, Men

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• In America ... the seven ages of man have become preschooler, Pepsi generation, baby boomer, mid-lifer, empty-nester, senior citizen, and organ donor.

  Bill Cosby

  Senior, Baby, Men

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• Guitar makes even have a word for these baby-boomers-who-alwyas-wanted-to-be-great-guitarists-and-now-have-the-money-to-indulge-those-dreams: dentists

  Tim Brookes

  Dream, Baby, Guitar

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• Packed with fascinating personal perspective and testimony, Michael Takiffs A Complicated Man wholly justifies its title. The book is far more than a kaleidoscopic oral biography of President Bill Clinton. Aspect by aspect, it guides us through the struggles of postmodern America, as the most ambitious baby boomer of his generation seeks to modernize the Democratic Party-and, as in a Greek drama, is fated to be destroyed. Veritably, an all-American saga, with a cast of thousands-favorable and unfavorable.

  Nigel Hamilton

  Baby, Drama, Party

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• I don't know if the idea of a career in show business or in the arts in general was looked down upon as much as by baby boomers as it was by their parents.

  Jason Sudeikis

  Baby, Art, Careers

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There is this idea that appealing to youth is the only way forward. But that is no longer the case. Youth is not everything. Now we have all the baby-boomers in their 60s, like me, who are actively engaged in life - we're not retiring, we're not just being put out to grass once we hit 60.

  Julie Walters

  Baby, Retirement, Way Forward

  "Julie Walters criticises lack of roles for older female actors" by Matt Trueman, www.theguardian.com. April 30, 2012.

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• The first of America's 79 million baby boomers turned 60 this month. Time flies when you're growing old.

  Craig Wilson

  Baby, America, Time Flies

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• The baby boomers are out there, they've had a lot of good years of earnings, they've inherited wealth. They are buying trophy homes and will be for years. We are one of those places people dream of. They come here to buy a piece of that dream.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Dream, Baby, Home

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• Jews took it very seriously to marry other Jews and repopulate the Jewish bloodline, and my father's generation gets very serious in my household when they're like, "You have to marry another Jew," because that's still kind of the mentality coming from the baby boomers. So I know that type of pressure.

  Logan Lerman

  Baby, Father, Generations

  "‘Indignation’ Stars Logan Lerman And Sarah Gadon On Philip Roth, Sylvia Plath And The Perils Of Oral Sex". Interview with David Ehrlich, www.indiewire.com. July 29, 2016.

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• Young Baby Boomers were forced to play duck-and-cover in school, in hopes that a desk would protect them from an atomic explosion. It was all bullshit, and they knew it. They were questioning the entire adult establishment, and that was the root cause of juvenile delinquency. It was also the root cause of EC's success; kids were looking for ways to numb themselves to this horror that they felt.

  Al Feldstein

  Baby, School, Kids

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The retirement financial crisis will affect far more people than baby boomers, and certainly it will affect their children. Most of the retirees and near-retirees with whom we talked, said that they were extremely reluctant to have to depend on their children financially, or to think of moving in with their children. But the mere fact that they were discussing those issues indicates that some of them have already figured out that that is what lies ahead for them.

  Hedrick Smith

  Baby, Retirement, Children

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• The children of baby boomers should take very seriously the consequences for them of the inadequate funding for them of the baby boomer generation. This is a huge economic problem for the nation, not just for individuals or individual families. Think about it for a minute - if retirees become 20% of our population and their purchasing power falls below what has been normal for retirees in the past, one important engine driving our economy will be diminished.

  Hedrick Smith

  Baby, Children, Fall

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Now the baby boomers, i.e., us, are getting older, and were suddenly discovering that there are great things about getting older. You have time for your friendships and you appreciate them in ways that you didn't before.

  Anna Quindlen

  Baby, Appreciate, Getting Older

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I think there was a long period of time when we got real invested in a youth culture, and not coincidentally it was when the baby boomers, who let's face it, take up a lot of space on the planet, were young.

  Anna Quindlen

  Baby, Real, Thinking

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Baby Boomers are now living longer and want to stay vibrant and gorgeous for as long as possible. I've identified a need for women to learn the basics of a healthy, holistic, daily regimen, which will bring a healthy glow to their skin. It's all about allowing our true self to shine, both literally through our skin and metaphorically through our soul.

  Sophie Heyman Uliano

  Baby, Self, Long

  "Keeping Up With the Gorgeously Green Sophie Uliano". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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