Quotes About America In The 1920s

#1. Images sometimes capture particular periods in history. The unreachable green light, beckoning from across the bay in 'The Great Gatsby,' has become a symbol of the yearning of America in the 1920s.

David Ignatius

#2. Lagos is a metropolis of almost twenty million people, with more energy than London, more entrepreneurial spirit than New York, and so people come up with all sorts of ways to make a living.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#3. I had to give Justin Bieber a lot of shirts - he's a friend of the team, and we got a lot of love for Justin Bieber. I like the apparel business. That's another $100 million per year, easy.

Birdman

#4. A mother with an infant but without a father was not welcomed in the new world. "You kilt it." "She kilt it." "I had no milk for it," she answered back.

Edna O'Brien

#5. The thing I came for:
[ ... ]
the thing itself and not the myth

Adrienne Rich

#6. Income and wealth inequality in America today has reached levels not seen since the 1920s. Corporate

Hillary Rodham Clinton

#7. In the 1920s dramatists attacked their subjects as if the inequities could be resolved. Some of the traditional optimism of America lurked behind most of the early plays. But not now. There is no conviction now that the problem will be solved.

Brooks Atkinson

#8. The happening that happened was that I met this girl ...

Markus Zusak

#9. God doesn't measure big the way people measure big. Jesus had just twelve followers." He blinked a few times. "Fame is a demanding mistress.

Karen Kingsbury

#10. The thing about life, is that you never know where you stand. It's almost impossible to place yourself in a position of superiority- not against other people, not against yourself.

Leigh Hershkovich

#11. I am terrified of flying. I am a wreck right before I get on an airplane. That, and the ocean. I can only get in there for 10 minutes, I have this strong urge to run out and I won't go back in for the rest of the day. I've always been like that.

Kyle Gallner

#12. By the early 1920s, the America of Jefferson, Lincoln, Whitman, and the young William Jennings Bryan had ceased to exist. It had been replaced by the world of McKinley, Teddy Roosevelt, J. Edgar Hoover, and Woodrow Wilson.

Oliver Stone

#13. Great things are achieved only when we take great risks.

Frederick The Great

#14. When you're in love you're living, you matter.

Rita Hayworth

#15. You never did ask each other anything, did you? And you never told each other anything. You just sat and watched each other, and guessed at what was going on underneath. A deaf-and-dumb asylum, in fact!

Edith Wharton

#16. But she couldn't formulate the sentence in Chinese. Her knowledge of the language only extended to the daily necessities and small affections.

Jade Chang

#17. Patricia could see Remy dead. Her perfect corpse floating face down in the Oaxacan tiled infinity pool, her flawless stomach distended with decomposition gases, eyes fixed and dilated.

Shannon Bradley-Colleary

#18. The experience I gained at age 21 would be useful if I were ever 21 again. But I'm 71 and new at it and keep making age 71 mistakes.

Robert Breault

#19. Reagan grows up in 1920s Dixon, Illinois, and it's the heartland of America. It's a time when Americans are particularly drawn to this small town world because it's beginning to pass.

Robert Dallek