Baby boomers are often called boomers and are the generation after the silent generation and before Gen X.
They are children born between 1946 and 1964. All of them are babies born after World War II when there was a boom.
The term boomer is also used outside the USA, but the reasons to call them that might differ. They are considered the children of the greatest generation or the silent generation and are mainly parents of millennials or late-gen X's.
They are sometimes the parents of older Generation Z people as well. Read some quotes involving the baby boomers in this article.
Boomer Quotes On Society
Here are some great quotes about Baby Boomer and society.
"Today, Medicare provides health insurance to about 40 million seniors and disabled individuals each year. The number is only expected to grow as the baby boomers begin retiring."
-Jim Bunning.
"The baby boomers are getting older, and will stay older for longer. And they will run right into the dementia firing range. How will a society cope? Especially a society that can't so readily rely on those stable family relationships that traditionally provided the backbone of care?"
-Terry Pratchett.
"Our country also hungers for leadership to ensure the long-term survival of our Social Security system. With 70 million baby boomers in this country on the verge of retirement, we need to take action to shore up the system."
-Kay Bailey Hutchison.
"Open the borders to willing workers from any and all nations. They will create businesses that pay taxes, especially payroll taxes to fund Medicare and Social Security benefits of retiring baby boomers."
-Louis Navellier.
"The baby boomers owe a big debt of gratitude to the parents and grandparents - who we haven't given enough credit to anyway - for giving us another generation."
-Steven Spielberg.
"Today there are about 40 million retirees receiving benefits; by the time all the baby boomers have retired, there will be more than 72 million retirees drawing Social Security benefits."
-Tony Snow.
"Maybe it will be a great thing when the Baby Boomers finally die out. In real life, it's not a matter of the good guys or the bad guys. Rather, it's big numbers and small numbers that do the counting."
-Jack Bowman.
"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.
"I think that retiring the baby boomers is going to be one of the great challenges in America, that you cannot make fiscal sense out of the future of our children without taking on entitlements."
-Richard Lamm.
"Like lots of baby boomers, I was brought up on archaic anthropomorphism. Upstanding Christian dogs. Rabbits with family values. Because the ancient texts and pictures were sacred - Potter, Milne and the rest. Even concerned parents who knew Freud and Jung never saw the contradictions in feeding us on them."
-Peter York.
"We make artificial divisions everywhere: Democrats and Republicans, black and white, millennials and baby boomers. Even those of us who are against building walls find ourselves pointing accusing fingers at those wall-builders."
-Robert J. Waldinger.
"Like the 'little emperors' of one-child China, too many Boomers were taught early that the world was made (or saved) for their comfort and enjoyment. They behaved accordingly, with a self-indulgence that was wholly rational, given their situation."
-Eric Liu.
"Americans need to call on Boomers, in their next act onstage, to behave like grown-ups. And there is no better way for them to do this than to guide young people to lives of greater meaning, effectiveness, and purpose."
-Eric Liu.
"There's an age group that's just not being entertained - the boomers. There's a void out there. It's nice to be one of those who can fill that void."
-Anne Murray.
"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.
"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 Jr.
"Every generation builds on the work of the last, and pill or no pill, my generation could not have made the strides they have without all the work done by others. The same is true for future generations, although luckily for them the advancement of women is now snowballing."
-Jane Caro.
Funny Boomer Quotes
Hear some funny yet informative quotes on a baby boomer.
"There were all us baby boomers who had a grammar school education, started to learn, then went on the pill, the whole thing, and so there are today a lot more women writers, editors, producers, and so a lot more women's stories. God, the BBC's practically run by women."
-Julie Walters.
"While I do occasionally order items on the Internet, it's hard to teach an old shopper new tricks. I'm convinced that the catalogue will eventually disappear, but not until the last baby boomers have kicked off their smelly Nikes and been buried in mulch."
-Rita Rudner.
"Every generation trash-talks younger generations. Baby boomers labeled Generation X a group of tattooed slackers and materialists; Generation Xers have branded millennials as iPhone-addicted brats."
-Neil Blumenthal.
"Now, do I think the baby boomers tend to be self-absorbed? I do."
-P. J. O'Rourke.
"And you know, the baby boomers are getting older, and those off-the-rack clothes are just not fitting right any longer, and so, tailor-made suits are coming back into fashion."
-Amy Irving.
"Most 'Monty Python' fans are, of course, baby boomers, who have long been a nostalgic lot and are growing more so as they totter toward old age."
-Terry Teachout.
"Baby boomers don't go out as much, they aren't interacting with each other and they would rather stay home and watch TV. That's the audience for a guy like me, unless I'm doing 'Bad Santa.'"
-Billy Bob Thornton.
"The baby boomers have dropped the ball on their burden of responsibility."
-Meghan McCain.
"Not surprisingly, my parents' generation did everything they could to make life easier for their own children. Was that good for us? I wonder. It certainly didn't do us any good from a cultural point of view. I'm struck by how few boomers have embraced adult culture in middle age."
-Terry Teachout.
"The Boomers will eventually have to accept that it is not possible to stay forever young or to stop aging. But it is possible, by committing to show up for others in community after community, to earn a measure of immortality."
-Eric Liu.
"If boomers were always looking to shock, millennials are eager to share."
-Nancy Gibbs.
"When Gordon the Brown, in London in 1997, commissioned a great inquisition or survey of his new realm, the result was the so-called national asset register, which was immediately dubbed by the boomers of the UK Treasury 'the modern Domesday Book.'"
-James Buchan.
"The boomers' biggest impact will be on eliminating the term 'retirement' and inventing a new stage of life... the new career arc."
-Rosabeth Moss Kanter.
"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.
Baby Boomer Quotes
Here are some of the best quotes involving Baby Boomers.
"The baby boomers' politics have covered a wide band of silliness, from the Weather Underground to the Timothy McVeigh types. The great majority of us are well in the middle of that spectrum, but still, there's been both leftie silliness and right-wing silliness."
-P. J. O'Rourke.
"Gen Y consume most of their media online and mobile. Gen Y, as the Baby Boomers drop off, are the largest cohort with the largest amount of money - despite the fact that half of them are unemployed."
-Shane Smith.
"The language of freedom-fighting was so co-opted by the baby boomers in order to express their now-hopelessly compromised ideologies that no other generation could emulate it without a smirk. This has created an apathetic generation in the West, with young people no longer distinguishing between the old order and the new."
-Romola Garai.
"We've been lucky because quite a few young people keep coming to see us play. We couldn't tour as much as we do if we could only count on the baby boomers."
-Butch Trucks.
"I am very concerned about the millions of baby boomers who are counting on the stock market to deliver them a safe, sound, long retirement. I am afraid the baby boomers who are counting on the stock market are in trouble."
-Robert Kiyosaki.
"World War II brought the Greatest Generation together. Vietnam tore the Baby Boomers apart."
-Jim Webb.
"I think dementia is the major healthcare threat to our economy and our security. It's a ticking time bomb - we have a whole generation of baby boomers that are going to age, many progressing to get Alzheimer's - which disproportionately affects women and minorities."
-Vivek Ramaswamy.
"The baby boomers are the most spoiled, most self-centered, most narcissistic generation the country's ever produced."
-Steve Bannon.
"As the baby boomers like me are retiring and getting ready to retire, they will spend whatever it takes - and they're the wealthiest generation in our country - to make themselves live an enjoyable life in their retirement years."
-David Rubenstein.
"We wanted a supporting cast that would appeal to Baby Boomers who grew up in the fifties."
-Randal Kleiser.
"Any politician that says no tax revenue or zero spending cuts does not deserve reelection.
Our hole is so deep in this country with the debt and the debt service, the interest on that debt, before the big expenses come for Social Security and Medicare - for we baby boomers in a few years - that everything has to be on the table."
-Douglas R. Oberhelman.
"Throughout the Great Recession of 2008, the average 401(k) balance lost anywhere from 25 to 40 percent of value. Nobody was more harmed than baby boomers or recent retirees, who, unlike younger workers, didn't have the time for the market to rebound or were no longer contributing and therefore unable to invest when stocks were cheap."
-Mary Pilon.
"Bonds as an asset class will always be needed, and not just by insurance companies and pension funds but by aging boomers."
-Bill Gross.
"I do not hear any plan for sheltering Canadians from the next global financial crisis, which is coming for all of us as surely as arthritis is stalking the boomers."
-Neil Macdonald.
"Being a leader of the Boomers team is something that I've felt responsible for and being able to learn from the amount of guys that I've been able to - not only on the Boomers in my early days, but also over here in the NBA."
-Patty Mills.
"It’s always the people who most hate the idea of turning into their parents who end up doing so. The millennials blame the boomers for wrecking the country, yet rather than break free from their influence, we continue seeing the world in their terms."
-Helen Andrews.
