Twenties Quotes
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Gold were as good as twenty orators.
William Shakespeare
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There is a solitude, or perhaps a solemnity, in the few hours that precede the dawn of day which is unlike that of any others in the twenty-four, and which I cannot explain or account for. Thoughts come to me at this time that I never have at any other.
George Bird Grinnell
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I have this sense that I didn't really start growing up until my twenties.
Winona Ryder
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Each substance of a grief has twenty shadows.
William Shakespeare
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Home would not be home to me without a lawn, and if there are, as I've recently read, twenty-five million home lawns in the United States, at least fifty million other Americans must agree with me.
Katharine Sergeant Angell White
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Friends are the twenty-first-century version of extended families.
Cynthia Heimel
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I want the standard of living in Iran in ten years' time to be exactly on a level with that in Europe today. In twenty years' time we shall be ahead of the United States.
Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
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Saying "I'll start managing my money as soon as I get caught up" is like an overweight person saying "I'll start exercising and dieting as soon as I lose twenty pounds."
T. Harv Eker
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Maybe I was young and 'cute' (after all, I was only twenty then), but I've learned over the years that when you put white lab coats on chemists, they all look alike!
Gertrude B. Elion
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Photography as a subject is a good one. Its history is only about 150 years... You only have to know about twenty-five or thirty names and that's it. All you need. In painting there are more than 1,000.
William Wegman
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I think about what I wish I had known when I was a teen and tween. I struggled with a lot of insecurity and self-doubt as a young girl and the side-effects of that were long lasting, well into my late twenties.
Deborah Reber
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Us Asians look like we're twenty until we're fifty. Once we're fifty, we look like Yoda.
Dat Phan
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If I have to be objectified in my twenties to be taken seriously in my thirties, I'm doing something right.
Nico Tortorella
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What can you say about a twenty-five year old girl who died? That she was beautiful and brilliant. That she loved Mozart and Bach. The Beatles. And me.
Erich Segal
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According to the statistics, a man eats a prune every twenty seconds. I don't know who this fellow is, but I know where to find him.
Morey Amsterdam
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For twenty years, my research has shown that the view you adopt for yourself profoundly affects the way you lead your life. It can determine whether you become the person you want to be and whether you accomplish the things you value.
Carol S. Dweck
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I think certainly if I'd started getting published when I was in my early twenties, I was quite sheltered then and didn't know anything much about the world. I hadn't had any direct experience of how the world works.
Richard K. Morgan
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I practiced for at least two hours every day for twenty years, before then I practiced maybe four to five hours a day, and before then 14 hours a day. It was all I had ever done.
Michael Schenker
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In 1905, when you went motoring, you took your mechanic. Twenty-five years later, mass production revolutionized the role of the automobile, but buying a Ford wouldn't have made sense if everyone still needed a mechanic on board. In 1955, when you used your computer, you took your programmer. Twenty-five years later, mass production revolutionized the role of the computer, but buying a micro wouldn't have made sense if everyone still needed a programmer.
Gerald Weinberg
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I often think what interesting history we are making for the student of the twenty-first century.
William Carey Jones
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I was talking to my mom one time, like, "Gosh, I'm 30." And she's like, "In your thirties you're even stronger than in your twenties." I didn't believe her, but I have played better in my thirties.
Serena Williams
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It's easy to be a genius in your twenties. In your forties, it's difficult.
Robbie Robertson
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Is twenty hundred kisses such a trouble?
William Shakespeare
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One of the most clearly marked trends for over twenty years has been the decline in civil liberties.
Charles A. Reich