Quotes About Twenty Somethings

#1. All the same, they [young, twenty-somethings] can't help feeling that the aged and even the infirm have somehow elected that condition ... or have as it were been assigned those roles ... so that they ... can play their youthful-energetic, all but immutable selves.

John Barth

#2. One of the great things about moving to Silicon Valley is that you're surrounded by all these people who've done it before. This place is an assembly line that takes a couple of twenty-somethings and walks you through everything you need to learn.

Drew Houston

#3. (why exactly twenty-somethings are considered so vital to protest movements, I never figured out, seeing as how they never vote and have no money)

Nell Zink

#4. My wife and I have never been able to have kids of our own. Physically, it's impossible. The doctor checked. So we tend to unofficially adopt lots of twenty-somethings. I have a real soft spot in my heart for youth.

Doug Jones

#5. I think twenty-somethings are very cause-oriented.

Mark Batterson

#6. Twenty somethings who aren't at least a little scared about their relationships are often the ones who are being the least thoughtful.

Meg Jay

#7. It seems [that] everybody wants to be a twenty-something except for many twenty-somethings themselves. All around, 'thirty is the new twenty' is starting to get a new reaction: 'God, I hope not.

Meg Jay

#8. The concessions of the weak are the concessions of fear.

Edmund Burke

#9. You do. You're most beautiful just after you've woken up. It's always my favorite time, when we go for a run I the morning and I get to see you first thing. He kept playing with my hair.

Jessica Shirvington

#10. Both citizens and noncitizens bribed by the Party by means of jobs and liquor cast as many illegal ballots as they can in a single day, after which said votes will be either tossed in the river or purposefully miscounted.

Lyndsay Faye

#11. Therefore any cruelty has to be executed at once, so that the less it is tasted, the less it offends; while benefits must be dispensed little by little, so that they will be savored all the more.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#12. I don't think that we should waste our time criticizing other people. Self-criticism allows us to be the best version of ourselves.

Braden Pedersen

#13. People have too many problems during the day; they don't want to think.

Agnes Denes

#14. Am I a frustrated performer? My wife would say I am! I guess there has to be something of the performer in you if you build a global business.

Lloyd Dorfman

#15. At the beginning, at my shows, there were a lot of press and people from record companies. Now there are people who are there to just listen to the music and are genuine fans.

Seinabo Sey

#16. Life is always happening for you, not to you. Appreciate that gift, and you are wealthy, now and forever.

Anthony Robbins

#17. The old laws of England they Whose reverend heads with age are gray, Children of a wiser day; And whose solemn voice must be Thine own echo Liberty!

Percy Bysshe Shelley