Quotes About Twentysomethings

#1. We live in an age of generational turmoil. Baby-boom parents are accused of clinging on to jobs and houses which they should be freeing up for their children. Twentysomethings who can't afford to leave home and can't get jobs are attacked as aimless and immature.

Jane Ridley

#2. Confusion. Twentysomethings like Ian were raised

Meg Jay

#3. Whenever I watch a show and twentysomethings have a lot of 'Star Wars' references, I know it's written by a 40-year-old dude.

Anders Holm

#4. I'm a home cook, and I'm constantly embarrassed by twentysomethings who really do know the mechanics of cooking. How to build a sauce.

Ruth Reichl

#5. The fashion look of teens and twentysomethings -once so cutting edge- is now, like most of the music played on the radio, a matter of routine. Safe, tired, everywhere.

Phil Strongman

#6. Twentysomethings who don't feel anxious and incompetent at work are usually overconfident or underemployed.

Meg Jay

#7. But twentysomethings who hide out in underemployment, especially those who are hiding out because of a lack of confidence, are not serving themselves.

Meg Jay

#8. What no one tells twentysomethings like Emma is that finally, and suddenly, they can pick their own families - they can create their own families - and these are the families that life will be about. These are the families that will define the decades ahead.

Meg Jay

#9. The lottery question might get you thinking about what you would do if talent and money didn't matter. But they do. The question twentysomethings need to ask themselves is what they would do with their lives if they didn't win the lottery.

Meg Jay

#10. Science is very cross-generational; you're not just aiming it at twentysomethings, or eightysomethings. Every town's got a really broad selection of people and age groups interested in science.

Robin Ince

#11. If your city's being populated by highly educated twentysomethings with choices, you're probably going to succeed.

Mick Cornett

#12. We live in a selectively infantilized culture where twentysomethings are children if they're serving in the Third Infantry Division in Ramadi but grown-ups making rational choices if they drop to the broadloom in President Clinton's Oval Office ...

Mark Steyn

#13. When you're in your twenties in a new city where no one's from here, we're all sort of orphans. The only people that you can count on our bunch of people that you work with and that you know. You're only as good as the reliability of that latticework.

Dave Eggers

#14. All human things hang on a slender thread, the strongest fall with a sudden crash.

Ovid

#15. Riley knelt down, clasping the fur at the back of her neck. "You're fucking bruised all down your back. Why the hell didn't you tell me it hurt?"
Because it didn't at the time, genius.

Nalini Singh

#16. Learn to ask for what you want. The worst people can do is not give you what you ask for which is precisely where you were before you asked.

Peter McWilliams

#17. Would Grandmother scold him? Would she say, "Frank! Thank the gods, you've come. I'm surrounded by monsters."
More likely she'd scold him, or mistake them for intruders and chase them off with a frying pan.

Rick Riordan

#18. I read the fuck out of every book I can get my hands on.

Nick Hornby

#19. To have a child is the greatest honor and responsibility that can be bestowed upon any living being.
- Arya

Christopher Paolini

#20. I am the commander in chief of the United States armed forces, and Iraq is gonna have to ultimately provide for its own security.

Barack Obama

#21. For the most part, "naturals" are myths. People who are especially good at something may have some innate inclination, or some particular talent, but they have also spent about ten thousand hours practicing or doing that thing.

Meg Jay