Quotes about "Youth & Coming of Age"

One of the things I keep coming back to in my writing is that society doesn't work on this mirror principle, you don't have an exact replica on the left of what you have on the right. It just doesn't work that way. ”

First, his job approval ratings have been trending down for many months, a trend that has accelerated in recent weeks as the war on terrorism has been supplanted in the public's mind by corporate scandals, stock market declines, and a growing sense of economic insecurity. ”

In addition to the decline in competition, American politics today is characterized by a growing ideological polarization between the two major political parties. ”

The games industry is already bigger than the music industry, and it's mainly directed at teenage boys. ”

History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion. ”

Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes. ”

A single breaker may recede; but the tide is evidently coming in. ”

Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth. ”

Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the question of waste before him constantly. The scope of thrift is limitless. ”

Coming from Britain, I was terrified of meeting all these other artists, because artists over there tend to fight with each other a lot, the premise being that there's not enough room for everybody. ”