Twenties Quotes

I just did in my early twenties what most did when they were teenagers, being free and exploring and making mistakes, but I did it in France. I did it privately.

I suppose I'm led to do so by the fact of what happened to my contemporaries - people whom I've admired, people who I thought were ten times better than me when I was in my twenties and early thirties. I may have been right.

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

As far as hypnosis is concerned, I had a very serious problem when I was in my twenties. I encountered a man who later became the president of the American Society of Medical Hypnosis. He couldn't hypnotize me.

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

You can't understand Twenties England until you appreciate it was under a cloud of mourning. Nearly everyone was grieving.

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.

The Roaring Twenties were the period of that Great American Prosperity which was built on shaky foundations.

In this country, it doesn't make any difference where you were born. It doesn't make any difference who your parents were. It doesn't make any difference if, like me, you couldn't even speak English until you were in your twenties.

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

I feel like you don't know if someone's equipped for a romantic relationship until they're out of their twenties.

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.