Boomer Quotations

My favorite team is the Bengals. In Idaho, we didn't really have a home team. But my parents are from Ohio, and when I was a little kid, my aunts and uncles would send me Boomer Esiason T-shirts and Ickey Woods mini-footballs, so I got hooked on those guys.

There still seems to be a lack of film for the baby boomer generation, if you'd like to call it that. And I think 'Martin Bonner' showed what's possible. Later in life, when you've been working at something for a long time, to actually get some kudos for what you do is wonderful.

You're not a baby boomer if you don't have a visceral recollection of a Kennedy and a King assassination, a Beatles breakup, a U.S. defeat in Vietnam, and a Watergate.

When Baby Boomer women started choosing hotel-like birthing centers over hospital delivery rooms, hospitals quickly wised up. Now even rural hospitals offer well-designed labor-delivery-recovery suites.

We are poised to grow again, which is part of our long-term strategy. Ultimately, the baby boomer impact will come, and we have quite an array of businesses to capture that impact.

We're expecting to see more age-related macular degeneration because the baby boomer generation is approaching that age, and everyone is living longer. It potentially could be devastating.

Much as my Boomer friends will hate me for saying this, Kanye West is the New Dylan. Not only do Kanye's best lyrics match Dylan's prescience, highly inventive word-play and genius for storytelling, his indefatigable cockiness eerily channels Muhammad Ali.

Maybe the future isn't so bright. There's a lot of comfort in wrapping ourselves in a simpler time, and also in clothes less demanding of the perfect body. And perhaps it's a bit of a bow to a boomer population that has a little bit of a hard time with spandex.

If the trend with pre-retires continues, the sheer size of the 77 million baby boomer population, coupled with impending postage increases, will drive up the government's costs to issue paper checks exponentially.

If the trend with pre-retirees continues, the sheer size of the 77 million baby boomer population, coupled with impending postage increases, will drive up the government's costs to issue paper checks exponentially.

He reminds me of Steve Young in his prime with his mobility, ... I coached some great quarterbacks in Boomer and Joe, but their styles were different than this kid. But those guys were great commanders. We threw the no-huddle at him (Sunday), and he handled it the way they did in their early days.

I suspect that they will think about doing both. For us, with Boomer (Herndon), they put Hollins behind him and Boomer couldn't score through him at all. But Davis, to me, is a combination of Shaquille (O'Neal), with his size, and a guy like Charles Barkley with his mobility. He would more likely be able to do that.

It has been Boomer's team, sometimes to a detriment. He was making the tackle that someone else should have made. We had guys just think that Boomer would be there.

Those cars have boomer sensibilities in how they're designed.

With the Baby Boomer generation getting up in age, there's going to be a real lack of skilled workers here in the future and everybody is recognizing that. A lot of these youngsters want to go into technology and computer fields and that's all well and good, but it leaves a gap of skilled laborers and there are good jobs to be had out there.

We had some opportunities to score early and we let Boomer off the hook.

Boomer obviously threw a monkey wrench in everybody?s plans.

Boomer is what you want them all to be.

Boomer is one of the best pitchers to play in this game, ever. It's going to be good to have him back out there and competing and having him get guys off-balance --going out there and just doing what Boomer does well.

Even though we have reduced the size of the package, and the amount of current (2.6 mA under these conditions), we have boosted the amount of output power. The output power is so significant, that you will be sure to hear your Boomer -equipped mobile phone ringing in noisy environments such as crowded restaurants.

As the Baby Boomer generation retires, the demand for young scientists and engineers is expected to increase at almost four times the rate of all other occupations. In 10 years there will be a major work force gap in technical industries if we do not strengthen the interest today's young people have in math, science, technology and engineering. The Design Challenges are a vehicle to achieve that goal.

Florida has no income tax, and they tout that far and wide. If states want to compete for boomer retirees, they need to offer some type of tax incentives.

There's just such an enormous demand from pension funds and insurance companies to match their assets with the liabilities of the boomer generation.

There's just a lot more boomer kids out there, and that's cutting up the pie into very small pieces.

The target has always been the mid-week road warrior that was the baby boomer mentality. Now, the market is more fragmented and people are mixing business with leisure.

The thing about the boomer generation is the sheer volume of it.

There's a big, vast baby boomer audience of people over 35 who feel they're being ignored by the record industry.

The biggest and most valuable commodity in (the baby boomer population) is time. People are all the time spending money in order to have more time.

No baby boomer has a completely original idea, but after 13 years on 'Today' and another 11 on 'Dateline,' almost 30 years total at NBC, I felt the urge to find out what was 'behind the camera.' I had the feeling there was 'something more,' though 'more' might be less.

The baby boomer generation is retiring and the demands on Social Security will increase exponentially this decade. Vice President Gore believes the more responsible thing to do with a strong economy and a record surplus is to protect programs such as Social Security and Medicare.

It was a hardship for the family. They lived in a suburban home, and they didn't have a car for a year before deciding to move to a retirement community. The boomer generation is faced with these tough decisions now. And, of course, we're going to be older drivers in another 15 to 20 years.

Clearly the baby boomer demographics are driving the phenomena.

The market downtown was up more than 20 percent last year. And the market is still underserved. You've got the baby boomer population that is finding condominium living very appealing.

The idea that we have to make cuts imminently because of the Baby Boomer generation is simply not true. We knew about Boomers and adjusted the program accordingly. Greenspan is really off the mark.

The fractional owner is typically a baby boomer with discretionary income and the time to travel. The whole concept of fractional is that it is an alternative to second home ownership.