Twenties Quotes

I know that when I grew up I was pretty sheltered, and didn't come to understand much about the world until I was in my really late teens and early twenties, and that process continues.

My kids have moved more in their twenties, you know, than my parents have moved in nearly 40-something years of marriage before they died. So there's a part of me that laments what we have lost, and that is a sense of community.

I like getting older. When you're in your twenties you're really forging for your future. Things take shape later on.

I wrote eight full-length adult novels in my twenties. None of them were published.

I lived my twenties in a very public manner and if anyone's twenties are documented it's not always going to be pretty.

But that incessant drive to be out there in the literary universe that was important to me when I was in my twenties, like going to a Paris Review party or whatever, that seems totally irrelevant now.

Our mothers' generation fought so hard to change things and we're the first generation to benefit. And now you get girls in their twenties who say they're not feminists.

Positive, healthy, loving relationships in your twenties... I don't know if anyone would disagree with it: I think they're the exception, not the norm. People are either playing house really aggressively because they're scared of what an uncertain time it is, or they're avoiding commitment altogether.

Criticism starts - it has to start - with a real passion for reading. It can come in adolescence, even in your twenties, but you must fall in love with poems.

When I was in my twenties, it felt like I was riding wild horses, and I was hoping I didn't go over a cliff.

The prospect of dating someone in her twenties becomes less appealing as you get older. At some point in your fife, your tolerance level goes down and you realize that, with someone much younger, there's nothing really to talk about.

It's only when the kids are in their late twenties that families really face up to what they are.

I was still thought of as a kid actor even though I was in my mid twenties.

In my teens or twenties I wanted to do Blanche. Now I'm over that. Those roles are not attracting me now. Which is odd, because that's what most every actress would want to go do.

There are always decades that interest people. For me, that's the Roaring Twenties.

Actually, that's one of the things I was thinking about writing a story about me, loosely based or autobiographical. I just don't want to be like some people that are in their twenties and writing autobiographies.

I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one. And I'm still fanatical, but now I'm a little less fanatical.

I have this sense that I didn't really start growing up until my twenties.

When I got out of my Twenties I stopped playing women that were victims. I like playing women who are strong and have a piece of mind.

I told her it was a bigger than life musical, that all the actors were going to be about the same age, late twenties into thirties. It would be a style; a kind of surreal high school.

I look back at my twenties and see that I was much less confident.

Now, the instrumentation in the jazz band and the jazz dance band has gone through many evolutions. For instance, in the 'twenties the tradition was two or three saxophones.

I do think girls in their twenties accept certain kinds of lesser treatment than they would at other times in their lives.

It is right and natural that generous minds while in the twenties should think the books which try to reform the world's wrong the greatest of all.

Okay, so, when I was a kid, definitely the drawings and the illustration. Then I stopped in sixth grade or so. And then I started again when I was in my twenties. I really didn't progress since then, so the way I draw is the way I drew in sixth grade.

I have been looking forward to this age of my life for a long time. In my twenties, I marked the days on the calendar - I was sick of playing high-school kids.

I went through all my twenties thinking that I wasn't good enough.

I think that love isn't what you think it is when you're in your twenties or even thirties.

I'm torn about late parenting. I believe people should spend their twenties living and having fun and not having any regrets later. I also think people in their thirties generally make better parents but so many of my friends are having trouble - myself included - as fathers get older.

Our kids are in their twenties now, which is a wonderful time.