Twenties Quotes · Page 7

Twenty-two million African-Americans - that's what we are - Africans who are in America.

— Malcolm X

An investor should act as though he had a lifetime decision card with just twenty punches on it.

— Warren Buffett

“Trying to stabilize—that is what the twenties are all about. The”

— Gail Sheehy

Space is so close: It took only eight minutes to get there and twenty to get back.

— Wubbo Ockels

I didn't see any Broadway till I was in my late twenties.

— Alice Ripley

After making music for twenty-six years I can't pretend I don't know anything about it anymore.

— Blixa Bargeld

It really is the year 2007. Which means I must be... Oh my God. I'm twenty-eight. I'm old.

— Sophie Kinsella

She was a faded but still lovely woman of twenty-seven.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

All that a spectator gets out of the game is fresh air, the comical articles in his program, the sight of twenty-two…

— Robert Benchley

It is time to understand the environment for what it is: the national security issue of the early twenty-first century.

— Robert D. Kaplan

I have been looking forward to this age of my life for a long time. In my twenties, I marked the days…

— Rob Lowe

It's very disheartening to encounter a fearful twenty-one year old. They haven't earned the right to be that afraid. It's not like…

— Fran Lebowitz

Anyone who stops learning is old — whether this happens at twenty or at eighty. Anyone who keeps on learning not only…

— Henry Ford

I find myself more and more relying for a solution of our problems on the invisible hand which I tried to eject…

— John Maynard Keynes

One wastes so much time, one is so prodigal of life, at twenty! Our days of winter count for double. That is…

— George Sand

The chance to own a home; chance to own an education; chance to get access to capital. This is the real civil…

— Jack Kemp

On the night he died - he was twenty-seven - Basquiat had been planning to see a Run-DMC show. When people asked…

— Jay-Z

Did not learned men, too, hold, till within the last twenty-five years, that a flying dragon was an impossible monster? And do…

— Charles Kingsley

I'm the original hunter-down-of-fabulous-things. Twenty years ago I sat down and decided that I would create a really wonderful image, an unforgettable…

— Stevie Nicks

In the matter of physics, the first lessons should contain nothing but what is experimental and interesting to see. A pretty experiment…

— Albert Einstein

For me, stripping was an unusual kind of escape. I had nothing to escape but privilege, but I claimed asylum anyway. At…

— Diablo Cody

Basically, I realized I was living in that awful stage of life between twenty-six to and thirty-seven known as stupidity. It's when…

— Lorrie Moore

I played the cello from when I was ten, and then I bought a guitar from the father of some friends of…

— James Taylor

Jupiter, not wanting man's life to be wholly gloomy and grim, has bestowed far more passion than reason --you could reckon the…

— Desiderius Erasmus

I was under twenty when I deliberately put it to myself one night after good conversation that there are moments when we…

— Robert Frost

Katy was neither a Methodist nor a Masochist. She was a goddess and the silence of goddesses is genuinely golden. None of…

— Aldous Huxley

The way to get through anything mentally painful is to take it a little at a time. The mind can't handle dealing…

— Joe De Sena

And if you think that you're showing your love to Catherine by suffering the way you've been doing, then somewhere along the…

— Nicholas Sparks

Twenty years ago the Oklahoma City bombing seared the concept of terrorism on American soil into our national consciousness and proved that…

— Jim Bridenstine

Had the news of salvation by Jesus Christ been inscribed on the face of the sun and the moon, in characters that…

— Thomas Paine

Yet, for I know thou art religious And hast a thing within thee called conscience, With twenty popish tricks and ceremonies Which…

— William Shakespeare

I have more dumb luck thank anybody I know. There must be a convey of guardian angels working twenty-four hours a day…

— Willie Nelson

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

— Tommy Rettig

You moan, "She left me." "He left me," Twenty more will come.

— Rumi

I often think what interesting history we are making for the student of the twenty-first century.

— Anonymous

Love is more pleasant once you get out of your twenties. It doesn't hurt all the time.

— Andy Rooney

For the past twenty years you and I have been fed all day long on good solid lies about sex

— Anonymous

The twenties are a deceptively challenging-slash-painful time. I'm just glad to be out of that phase.

— Claire Danes

Permit us to labor on in obscurity, and at the end of twenty years you may hear from us again.

— Adoniram Judson

I suffered when I was in my late twenties and early thirties. I was awkward, I stuck out, I was nerdy.

— Stephen Merchant